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Ryan Goss

@ryangoss.bsky.social
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Law prof in the nation’s capital. Two steps away from the county line. All the usual disclaimers.

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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Your reminder that, in 5 of Australia’s 6 states, votes can be cast on behalf of corporations in local elections www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Periodic reminder that (I suggest) there is no legislature on the Australian continent that should be described in terms of ‘parliamentary sovereignty’ or ‘parliamentary supremacy‘. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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What Do Australians Talk About When They Talk About ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty’?
It is commonly said that some form of parliamentary sovereignty or parliamentary supremacy is part of Australian constitutional law. Yet no Australian legislatu
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Australians for Constitutional Monarchy convenor not so sure about hereditary monarchy www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
An interesting anecdote in Malcolm Turnbull's memoir about Peter Cosgrove as Governor-General, during the period of the s44 dual citizenship saga
extract from Turnbull memoir. Cosgrove urged 'to do something' by radio hosts.
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What does it mean for someone to be charged with a criminal offence? My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4) academic.oup.com/hrlr/article... #echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law
abstract of journal article linked to later in thread
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🏛️ Great to publish this article on parliamentary privilege, coauthored with Prof Gabrielle Appleby; Tasmanian roadworks have never been so interesting! G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“our constitutional arrangements mean that we must, as a community, recognise our problems and accept that solving them is the responsibility of all of us because we can't look to pronouncements from on high to solve our political differences.…” — Justice Keane, 2008.
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Pleased to have my research on criminal fair trial rights cited again in a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: Gorse v Slovenia, in the Concurring Opinion of Judge Serghides #echr #humanrights hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
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Ryan Goss @ryangoss.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Pleased to have 4 pieces of my research on #ECHR criminal fair trial rights cited again this week in a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, in the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Serghides in Souroullas Kay and Zannettos v Cyprus. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-23...
press release
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