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Procedural Due Process under the Australian Constitution

Early attempts to establish a constitutional procedural due process principle have relied upon the separation of judicial power and operated within the doctrinal framework provided by R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers’ Society of Australia.1 Such attempts focused on developing a concept of ‘judicial power’ that included a minimum standard of procedural fairness. Although this conception was adop...

Judge Posner’s Common Law Constitution

This past year, Judge Richard Posner published a pair of essays endorsing the common law method of constitutional interpretation. “David Strauss is right,” he wrote, in a contribution to Slate’s annual Supreme Court Breakfast Table. “The Supreme Court treats the Constitution like it is authorizing the court to create a common law of constitutional law, based on current concerns, not what those ...

Fiscal Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Introduction

Introduction to Hahnemann ’ S Theory and Practice

Nowadays, we find the idea of a miasma old-fashioned but it was widely used in Hahnemann’s time. Diseases that were thought to be caused by miasma included cholera, dysentery, leprosy, malaria (which literally means “bad air”), bubonic plague, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Miasma was understood to be “a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere” – the “contamination” or “polluti...

Introduction to Arithmetic Coding - Theory and Practice

entropy coding, compression, complexity This introduction to arithmetic coding is divided in two parts. The first explains how and why arithmetic coding works. We start presenting it in very general terms, so that its simplicity is not lost under layers of implementation details. Next, we show some of its basic properties, which are later used in the computational techniques required for a prac...