The books that changed my life
I’ve always been a bit of a bookworm. More than a way to pass the time or learn…
Is political correctness impoverishing or enriching our language?
“That’s so gay” Back in my school days, everything was gay. Science class was gay, bumbags were gay,…
Nomad no more
Australians boast the inglorious irony of being the best off people in this pandemic and yet we’re potentially…
Lost in leadership: why we need to talk about following well
Leadership I’ve written previously about the first time I was told that I had demonstrated leadership. It was…
Angry enough to be free, safe enough to thrive
Safe enough to thrive I read Greta Thunberg’s UN address today and I’m glad I was looking at…
Turning on TED
It was only 18 months ago that I publicly wrote that one of my deepest dreams was to…
Marketing is broken. Can we fix it?
Why marketing feels icky To be honest, I would never have guessed that I’d end up with the…
Law, Music and other big nouns
Article 72 of the Third Geneva Convention (on the rights of Prisoners of War) specifies that POWs must be…
80% Australian
Approaching this Australia Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about my Australianness. Or lack thereof. It’s not that…
“Effectivisation”: A post about the law (and reforming it)
Bolivia is currently reforming its justice system. On October 31, the Bolivian Parliament passed a new piece of legislation, called the Law for the Decongestion and Effectivisation of the Criminal Procedure System. In case you were wondering, it's Ley de Decongestionamiento y Efectivización del Sistema Procesal Penal in Spanish - and "efectivización" isn't a real word in Spanish either, hence the weird translation.
Process is at the heart of justice - as important as a just result is a just procedure to arrive at that result. I'll confess I've forgotten a lot of what they taught me at law school, but this particular principal of justice has stuck with me. Working at IJM Bolivia, I am struck anew by how much of a paradox this often is.