Zoroastrian exhibition

The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination is the first exhibition of its kind to provide a visual history of Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions, which was for centuries the principal faith in Iran. Artefacts, texts and paintings from major institutions around the world give important historical, social, economic and religious information.     

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Abstract

THIS article surveys some of the most significant issues facing Australian legal education today. Although referencing the research of others, the views expressed in this article are necessarily personal to the authors; they represent a “reflective practitioners'” insight into Australian legal education. The perspectives drawn in this article are painted with a broad brush on a large canvas and in an impressionistic style. As with all ‘overviews’, most of the areas discussed warrant further discussion and research. While some of the concerns raised will be of immediate interest to Australians, the broader issues encompass areas relevant to legal educators in countries facing similar problems and undergoing, as is the UK, a major review of legal education.¹     

The conference of European affairs committees: A collective voice for national parliaments in the European union

The role of national parliaments in the European Union has been the subject of intense debate in the last decade. The Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties contained significant texts aimed at enhancing the role of national parliaments. Several major political figures in Europe have recently discussed the case for making the collective voice of national parliaments better heard and this issue is firmly on the ‘post‐Nice’ agenda.’ In parallel, an important debate has been running between the parliaments themselves about a collective role for national parliaments. Since 1989, a little‐known body has provided a forum for these debates. This article aims to set out the history of that body, and to highlight some of the issues surrounding an enhanced role for national parliaments.     

Child abduction: aged-based analyses of offender, victim, and offense characteristics in 550 cases of alleged child disappearance.

Crimes against children, particularly cases involving abduction and/or homicide, continue to be problematic as both a social phenomenon and judicial responsibility. Such cases routinely receive immense community and media attention and rapidly overwhelm investigative resources. Research in the area of childhood victimization, however, has only recently gained national prominence. While numerous studies on child abuse and neglect have been conducted, research on child abduction and homicide remains scant. Previous studies examining child abduction suffer from limited geographical scope or fail to base predictive analyses on victim characteristics. The current study reports the results of a nationally representative sample (47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico) of 550 cases of alleged child abduction obtained from Federal Bureau of Investigation files for the period 1985 through 1995. Study results demonstrate that both offender and offense characteristics vary significantly according to victim age, gender, and race. Such differences appear critical to crime reconstruction, criminal profiling, and investigative resolution. Additionally, these data suggest that current child abduction prevention programs may emphasize inaccurate offender traits.