⏳ 10 mins Let’s hop over the border to Shenzhen (深圳), China. We’ll start by looking at the influences on the Chinese legal system through the lens of history.
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LB Travels: Hong Kong | The common law
⏳ 9 mins This week, we’re travelling to Hong Kong. We’ll take this as an opportunity to touch on the common law system and muse on recent events.
Read this book. It might change your life.
⏳ 7 mins There are a handful of books that I’ve found positively earth-shattering. One of them is Mindset, by Professor Carol Dweck, a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.
Chat with Zara Lim
⏳ 9 mins Zara is a commercial litigation lawyer at Aptum, a boutique Melbourne law firm. She also runs an incredible creative business as the founder of Edward Kwan.
(Mis)reporting
⏳ 2 mins Lawyer or Barrister? Justice, Judge or Magistrate? QC or SC? Let’s go through some of the common errors that journalists make.
White-collar crime: Prevention is better than the cure (Part 2)
⏳ 11 mins Finally, we race to the finish line with three more lessons on curbing dishonesty in an ecosystem. The aim? To achieve a better, more honest world.
White-collar crime: Prevention is better than the cure (Part 1)
⏳ 7 mins Following on from our previous posts, let’s look at some lessons from the existing research and how they’re relevant to stopping white-collar crime in its tracks.
Newsflash: It’s white-collar crime week
⏳ 4 mins Let’s digress slightly to look at this week’s scandal in the US of A, codenamed “Operation Varsity Blues”, and other events at home in Australia.
People Like Us
⏳ 11 mins Who are white-collar criminals? And why are they people like us? Let’s start with the Hall of Infamy. Then we’ll look at some fascinating research on dishonesty and how it’s relevant to the law.