⏳ 10 minsLet’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.
CategoryFor the Curious
LB Travels: Hong Kong | The common law
⏳ 9 minsThis 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 minsThere 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 minsZara 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 minsLawyer 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 minsFinally, 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 minsFollowing 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 minsLet’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 minsWho 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.
