In our final episode for Season 2 of Secondary Rules, we examine how a conversation at James Cook University led to the most momentous decision in Australian legal history.

Water under the bridge, and judges kissing babies, in this episode of Secondary Rules. What business do Courts have thinking about socio-economic rights? Can a Constitution transform a society, and can litigation safeguard a democracy? All this and more as we consider the right to water in the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

The trial that changed the world. A Jewish rabble-rouser came face-to-face with a provincial Roman governor. He was hanged. But his death was not the end. It was just the beginning. Spikenard not included.

‘Directly chosen’ for your enjoyment, this week we look at a case about free speech in a democratic society (and Joshua is a harsh marker of Ryan’s work), all of it ‘unaccompanied by moving images or other vocal sounds’.

Long live the common law! In each episode of Season 2, we tell the story of a great landmark court decision from around the world. This week we look at the fascinating Malaysian Federal Court decision in Indira Gandhi v Director of the Islamic Department.

Bonjour et bienvenue: how do you change the way a constitution changes, without being sure how to change the constitution? In each episode of Season 2, we tell the story of a great landmark court decision from around the world. This week we look at the fascinating Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Patriation Reference (1981).

Join hosts Ryan Goss and Joshua Neoh as they tell the stories behind great landmark court decisions from Australia and around the world — pulling them apart, talking them through, and thinking about why anyone interested in law may be interested in these cases. This week, it's Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562.

Join hosts Ryan Goss and Joshua Neoh as they tell the stories behind great landmark court decisions — pulling them apart, talking them through, and thinking about why anyone interested in law may be interested in these cases. This week, it's McCann and Others v United Kingdom (21 ECHR 97 GC).

Welcome to the first episode of a new season of Secondary Rules! In Season 2, hosts Ryan Goss and Joshua Neoh tell the stories behind great landmark court decisions — pulling them apart, talking them through, and thinking about why anyone interested in law may be interested in these cases. This week, it's the US Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

This week, on a special mini episode of Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about the Coronation of Australia’s Head of State, King Charles III, which takes place abroad this weekend.

This week on the last Secondary Rules for 2022, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk Revelation, revolutions, recidivism, and Rishi.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk dual-citizenship and the stripping of “foreign fighters” citizenship, the decline and fall of Liz Truss, and torture in an age of terror.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk panopticon and the pandemic, how we get our High Court judges, and offer some generalisations about French philosophers and the US Senate.

This week on Secondary Rules, an unprecedented Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss discussion about precedent, when Courts change their minds, and how legal systems sit alongside one another. Thrown in along the way: a dramatic HCA transcript reenactment and a look at upcoming US Supreme Court cases.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about Pape & the Pope: how law is like scripture, who gets to decide when there is an emergency, and Justice Jayne Jagot.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss discuss the theatrical spectacle of Question Time and its constitutional purpose, and activate book club mode to think about why law is like a novel.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about the Britishness (or Australianness) of the monarchy, cash and coins, and reflect a little on why public law matters.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about the monarchy, the Queen, the King, and reflect on why legal theory matters.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about why we ought to obey the law, the interaction between law and morality, the Territories as ‘constitutional teenagers’, and why this is (probably) the nation’s preeminent weekly territory-law podcast.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about parliamentary sovereignty, the latest on Scott Morrison’s secret ministries, what H.L.A. Hart had to say about Joshua’s driving, and why this podcast is called Secondary Rules in the first place.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about Rousseau’s views on rabbits, the Governor-General, and Scott Morrison’s secret ministries.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about voting rights under the Constitution (should 6-year-olds have the vote?), Prince Charles’ qualifications to be our next Head of State, and look at why Hobbes thought none of us can sleep soundly.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about law and forgiveness in the ancient Greek plays of the Oresteia; federalism in the age of Covid; and touch on the PM’s speech about a referendum on the Voice.

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about constitutionalism, constitutional change, and the crafty serpent in the Garden of Eden.