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Jon Faine returns to the airwaves in new podcast
Former ABC Radio broadcaster Jon Faine is hosting a new podcast series spotlighting current legal issues in interviews with researchers at Melbourne Law School.
The series, JUSTICE with Jon Faine, will unpack legal complexity, analyse cases and often prompt calls for law reform.
The podcast involves discussions on a wide range of topics with legal experts in each field. Subjects include an international challenge to the right to strike, AI discrimination in job recruitment and patients’ right to record their doctors.
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Last month, current students, alumni and supporters of Law Apps gathered for a subject reunion, ten years after the inaugural cohort of this innovative subject.
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Learn more about Melbourne Law School’s commitment to building and supporting just relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the state and between their respective laws, legal traditions and jurisprudence.
*Times Higher Education. World university rankings by subject, 2025