Recording and preserving legal history

The lack of a systematic approach in Australia to recording and preserving legal history was highlighted in the article by Catherine Hutchins in the August 2002 issue of the Australian Bar Review. This article describes the modest, albeit continuing, efforts on the part of the Supreme Court Library to meet this need in the State of Queensland. The efforts began in 1983 and have recently escalated with a series of exhibitions, talks, displays, interviews and preservations of documents (from online publication).

Putting the group back into unions: A social psychological contribution to understanding union support

Industrial relations research that attempts to grapple with individuals' union-related sentiments and activities often draws on one of two traditions of psychological research—the individual-level factors tradition (for example, personality and attitude-behaviour relations) and the social context tradition (for example, frustration-aggression and relative deprivation). This paper provides an overview of research conducted from within these traditions to explain union-related phenomena and identifies some of the limitations that arise as a consequence of a shared tendency to treat people in an atomistic fashion. The paper argues for an understanding of the psychological processes that underpin group-based action. To this end, it elaborates a theoretical framework based on social identity theory and self-categorisation theory that would allow us to examine the dynamic interplay between the individual, their cognitions and their environment. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of a specific case of union mobilisation, to indicate how this theoretical framework might aid empirical analysis.

Parceria p??blico-privada: compreendendo o modelo brasileiro

A necessidade de viabilizar investimentos p??blicos em um contexto de restri????o fiscal impulsionou governos de diversos pa??ses a buscar na parceria com o setor privado a alternativa para a realiza????o de obras e servi??os p??blicos. A experi??ncia paradigm??tica do Reino Unido em programas de parceria p??blico-privada (PPP) norteou a implanta????o de iniciativas semelhantes mundo afora. No Brasil, a aprova????o, em dezembro de 2004, da lei que disciplina as normas para contrata????o de PPP deu in??cio a um processo que passar?? pela defini????o dos projetos priorit??rios e que culminar?? na consolida????o das parcerias como mais um instrumento para a viabiliza????o de obras e servi??os p??blicos de que o pa??s necessita. Esse artigo tem por objetivo elucidar o modelo brasileiro de parcerias p??blico-privadas. Ap??s uma contextualiza????o inicial, s??o discutidos os fundamentos que balizam a implanta????o de um programa de PPP e apresentadas algumas caracter??sticas gerais dos contratos. Por fim, s??o expostos os pontos centrais da lei brasileira.