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Volume 36, June 2012

Articles 

Special issue: Law and Humanities Futures

Special issue editor: Marett Leiboff 

• Ghosts of Law and Humanities (Past, Present, Future) by Marett Leiboff
• Reverent Rites of Legal Theory: Unity – Diversity – Interdisciplinarity by Jeanne Gaakeer
• Signature and Illusion: Lessons from the Baroque for ‘Truth’ in Law, Arts and Humanities by Richard Mohr
• Law is not Turgid and Literature not Soft and Fleshy: Gendering and Heteronormativity in Law and Literature Scholarship by Greta Olson
• Unintended Consequences: Representations of Rwandan Women and their Children Born from Rape by Karen Crawley and Olivera Simic
• Towards a Feminist Aesthetic of Justice: Sarah Kane’s Blasted as Theorisation of the Representation of Sexual Violence in International Law by Honni van Rijswijk
• ‘The Force’ as Law: Mythology, Ideology and Order in George Lucas’s Star Wars by Timothy D Peters
• ‘Ditto’: Law, Pop Culture and Humanities and the Impact of Intergenerational Interpretative Dissonanceby Marett Leiboff

Volume 35, December 2011

Articles 

• The Ghosts of Cemetery Road: Two Forgotten Indigenous Women and the Crisis of Analytical Jurisprudence by William E Conklin
• Re-Framing the Rape Trial: Insights from Critical Theory about the Limitations of Legislative Reform by Julia Quilter
• The Art of Public Secrecy by Alison Young
• The Pure Subject of Torture: Or, Lynddie England Does Not Exist by Juliet Rogers
• Law, Ethics and Levinas's Concept of Anarchy by Matthew Stone
• Modernism and the Critique of Law and Literature by Desmond Manderson
• The Concept of Harm in Actions for Wrongful Birth: Nature and Pre-Modern Views of Women by Janice Richardson

Volume 34, June 2011

General Articles

• Where God was, Law will be? Kant avec Houellebecq by Maria Aristodemou 
• The Reckoning of Possibles: Asylum Seekers, Justice and the Indigenisation of the Levinasian Third by Joseph Pugliese
• Enter the Imaginarium: The Mirror, The Object and The Feminist Project by Paula Baron
• Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: What Are the Problems Represented To Be? A Discursive Analysis of Law and Policy in Sweden and Victoria, Australia by Lisa Carson and Kathy Edwards
• A Contribution to a Western Genealogy of the Rights of Men and, Incidentally, of Women by Riccardo Baldissone
• Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice: A Jurisprudence of Generoristy? by Stephanie Malon

Review Essay

• Sex Discrimination, Workplace Opportunities and Law's Transformative Promise, Review of Margaret Thornton Ed. "Sex Discrimination In Uncertain Times" by Diane Kirby

Volume 33, Dec 2010

Lacanian Women Symposium Articles 

• The After Silence of the Son/G by Jennifer Rutherford
• Reading the Northern Territory 'Intervention' From the Margins: Notes Towards a Feminist Psychoanalytic Ethics of Governmentality by Penny Pether

General Articles

• Giving an Account of Myself: Trans-Generational Holocaust Guilt in the Company of Bernhard Schlink and Judith Butler by Anna Szorenyi
• Rape in Conflict, Rape in Peace: Questioning the Revolutionary Potential of International Criminal Justice for Women's Human Rights by Kiran Grewal
• 'An Essential Ghost': Indigeneity Within the Legal Archive by Kathleen Birrell
• Wilfull Blindnes and the Execution of Justice: Law's Failure to See and the Case of Deanne Bridgland by Erin Buckley
• Representing the Problem of Abortion: Language and the Policy Making Process in the Abortion Law Reform Project in Victoria, 2008 by Alissar El-Murr

Praxis Notes

• Legal Issues Associated with the Study of Sexual Content on the Internet in Australia by Lenore Lyons, Sophie Williams and Michele Ford
• 'The Law as a Profession for Women': A Century of Progress?' A Reply to Mary Jane Mossman by Janet November
  

Volume 32, June 2010

• Feminist Internationalism by Hilary Charlesworth and Susan Harris Rimmer
• You May Never Understand: Prospects for Feminist Futures in International Relations by J Ann Tickner
• Connecting the Dots: Feminist International Relations and Feminist International Law in Australia by Katrina Lee-Koo
• The Political Economy of Violence Against Women: A Feminist International Relations Perspective by Jacqui True
• War, Law, Terror, Nothing New for Women by Judith Gardam
• 'Just Like Your Mother?' The Politics of Feminism and Maternity in the Pacific Islands by Nicole George
• Power and Danger: Feminist Engagement with International Law Through the UN Security Council by Dianne Otto
• Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice by Susan Harris Rimmer

Volume 31, Dec 2009

• Law, Crisis, Revolution: An Introduction by Victoria Sentas and Jessica Whyte
• Had We But World Enough and Time (Reconsidering Emergency) by Adam Bandt
• Strategy, Rupture, Rights: Reflections on Law and Resistance in Immigration Detention by Richard Bailey
• Naked Labour: Putting Agamben to Work by David Whyte
• Beyond the Desire for Law: Sex and Crisis in Australian Feminist and Queer Politics by Mark Pendleton and Tanya Serisier
• Criminalising Camera Fiends: Photography Restrictions in the Age of Digital Reproduction by Jessica Whyte
• The Remains of Authority and the Trial of Saddam Hussein by Juliet Rogers and Peter Rush
• Crisis, Modernity and Authority: Carl Schmitt on Order and the State by Daniel McLoughlin
• Endgame: Feminist Lawyers and the Revolutionary Body by Yorkio Otomo

Volume 30, June 2009

• Where Lawlessness is Law: The Settler-Colonial Frontier as a Legal Space of Violence by Julia Evans 
• Frontier Space and the Reification of the Rule of Law: Colonial Negotiations in the Wester Pacific, 1870-74 by Tracey Banivanua Mar
• Addressing Child Sexual Assault in Australian Aboriginal Communities: The Politics of White Voice by Adrian Howe
• Queering Foetal Life: Between Butler and Berlant by Fiona Jenkins
• Negotiating Insecurity: Law, Psychoanalytic Social Theory and the Dilemmas of the World Risk Society by John D Cash
• Playing Defence in Sexual Assault 'Trial by Media': The Male Footballer's Imaginary Body by Deb Waterhouse-Watson
• 'The Law as a Profession for Women': A Century of Progress? by Mary Jane Mossman
• 'I Have Seen Violence Towards Women Every Day of My Life': Australia, 2009 by Bess Nungarrayi Price

Praxis notes

• R v Wunungmurra: 'Culture' as Usual in the Courts by Adrian Howe
• Australian Legal Geography and the Search for Postcolonial Space in Chloe Hooper's "The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island" by Sarah Keenan
• Review Essay

Volume 29, Dec 2008

• Flesh, Bones and Other Matters by Elena Loizidou and Sara Ramshaw 
• The Lady Vanishes: Gender, Law and the (Virtual) Body by Bela Bonita Chatterjee
• Flesh and the Person by Richard Mohr
• On Pain and the Sense of Human Rights by Illan Rua Wall
• Voicing Embodiment, Relating Difference: Towards a Relational Legal Subjectivity by Patrick Hanafin
• Judicial Bodies as Sexual Bodies: A Tale of Two Portraits by Leslie J Moran
• Re-Imagining Equality: Meaning and Movement by Gilliam Calder and Sharon Cowan
• Ineffaceable Memories: The Truth of Testimony by Trish Luker
• Recovering Memories: Versions of a Misremembered Australian Body by Bryoni Trezise
• Critical Law, Critical Love by Eugene Mc Namee 

Volume 28, June 2008

• Our Shame: International Responsibility for the Rwandan Genocide by Neesam McMillan 
• The Body Figural and Material in the Work of Judity Butler by Elena Loizidou
• Of Mimicry and Madness: Speculations on the State by Yoriko Otomo
• Revisiting the Human Right to Water by Poojah Parmar
• Gay Male Resistance in Beat Spaces in Australia: A Study of Outlaw Desire by Derek Dalton
• Embodiments of the ENglish Constitution in The Romanticised Narratives of the Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and Four Weddings and a Funeral by Kirsty Duncanson
• Sex with Children 'A Foolish Lapse': What's the Story by Wendy Larcombe

Praxis Notes

• Getting 'Women' on Butcher's Paper at the Australian 2020 Summit: 'Social Inclusion' and Women's Place in the 21st Century by Zoe Rathus
• Scarlet Alliance Brings Sex Worker Migration to Canberra by Elena Jeffreys
• Critical Reflections on 2020 and Beyond by Terry Macdonald, June McCulloch and Sharon Pickering

Volume 27, December 2007

• Imagine There are No Lesbians: Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory and the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Parenting by Kate Foord 
• Law's Empiricism of the Object: How Lac Recreates Cultural Objects in its Own Image by Marett Leiboff
• Protecting 'Innocence'? Deconstructing Legal Regulation of Child Sexuality by Zach Meyers
• (This is Not A) Story: Using Court Records to Explore Judicial Narratives in R v Kathleen Folbigg by Emma Cunliffe
• The Constructions of Rationality in Australian Family Dispute Resolution: A Feminist Analysis by Rachael Field and Johnathan Crowe
• Re-Covering The Limits of Recognition: The Politics of Difference and Decolonisation in John Borrows' Rocovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law by Brenna Bhandar
• All Women are Sluts: Australian Rules Football and Representations of the Feminine by Deb Waterhouse-Watson

Praxis Notes

• Legitimising Rainbow Families Using Partnerships for Change by Ruth McNair and Rhonda Brown
• Lack of Conviction: A Proposal to Make Rape Illegal in South Australia by Mary Heath
• Human Trafficking and Sexual Slavery: Australia's Response by Marianna Leishman
• Contributors' Style Guide

Volume 26, June 2007

• The Aboriginal State of Emergency Arrive with Cook and the First Fleet by Irene Watson 
• Solid Rock, Sacred Ground: Cultural Vandalism in the Pilbara by Sally Morgan and Ambelin Kwaymullina
• Finding Your Own Kind or my Grandmother's Mother's Mother - the Exhibit! by Carol Dowling
• The 'Fair Skinned' Children of Sister Kate's: Negotiating for the Past and Future by Hannah McGlade
• Unmasking the State: Racial/Gender Terror and Hate Crimes by Andrea Smith
• Reconstructing Gender and 'Race' Relations After the Frontier by Jennifer Baker
• Witnessing the Workings of White Possession in the Workplace: Leesa's Testimony by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
• Aboriginal Women's Laws and Lives: How Might We Keep Growing the Law? by Sharon Venne interviewed by Irene Watsonn
• Howard's New Tampa - Aboriginal Children Overboard by Jennifer Martiniello

Volume 25, December 2006

• The Dissolution of the Social in the Legal Academy by Margaret Thornton 
• Musings on the Legal Scene: Law, Populism and the Politics of Ressentiment by Sandra Berns
• Colonial American Slave Laws: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs Highlight Consequences for Slave Women by Veronica C Hendrick
• Habeas Corpus in the Realm of Love: Litigating Marriages of Choice in India by Pratiksha Baxi
• Normalising Transgender and Policing Transgression: Anti-Discrimination Law Reform Ten Years On by Jesse Hooley
• Fact, Fiction and the Foetus: Violence Against Pregnant Women and the Politics of Abortion by Rebecca Stringer
• The Politics of Subjectivity in the Women, Law and Development Discourse by Elisabetta Bertolino
• For the Term of Their Natural Lives: Exile from Australia by Bev Henwood

Volume 24, June 2006

• Congealed by Law: Terrorism, Torture and the Possibilities of Critique by Anna Szorenyi and Juliet Rogers 
• The New Terror: Gunpowder Plot to Guantanamo by Julian Burnside
• The Wages of Fear: Labour Laws and Terror by Adam Bandt
• Between the Ethics and Politics of Innocence by Debra B Bergoffen
• Terrorism: Reinvoking the Barbarian To Secure the Space of Civilisation by Lee Godden
• 'Thinking of the Extreme Situation ...' On the New Anti-Terrorism Laws, Or Against A Recent (Theoretical and Legal) Return to Carl Schmitt by Matthew Sharpe
• The Risks of Power: Writing About Torture, Terror And Force in Legal Theory by Edward Mussawir
• David Hicks In/As The Event of Terror by Antonia Quadara
• A Note On Psychoanalysis and the Crime of Torture

Volume 23, December 2005

• In Silico Race And The Heteronomy of Biometric Proxies: Biometrics In the Context of Civilian Life, Border Security and Counter-Terrorism Laws by Joseph Pugilese 
• Of Monstrous Regiment and the Family Jewels by Marett Leiboff
• The World of Yaoi: The Internet, Censorship and the Global 'Boys' Love' Fandom by Mark Mclelland
• Re Alex / Real Alex: Transsexual Narratives and Their Possibilities For Resistance by Gemma Edgar
• 'Promises And Pie-Crusts Where Made To Be Broke': Breach of Promises of Marriage and the Regulation of Courtship in Early Colonial Australia by Alecia Simmonds
• 'Remembering Anita': Rape and the Politics of Commemoration by Tanya Serisier
• Honouring White Masculinity: Culture, Terror, Provocation and the Law by Janemaree Maher, Marie Segrave, Sharon Pickering and Jude Mcculloch

Volume 22, June 2005

• Mapping Connections by Ian Duncanson and Nan Seuffert 
• Being Aboriginal in Occupied Space by Irene Watson
• Without Shame, Australia, United States and New Cultural Relativism by Elizabeth Povinelli
• Pilgrimages of English Law by Sandra Rudland
• Postcolonising Amnesia, Reconciliation and Stolen Generations by Trish Luker
• Otterley Text, Genealogy and Sri Lankan Burghers by Fiona Campbell
• Failure of Sovereignty in Australia by Stewart Motha
• Postcolonial Theory, Native Title and Charles Harpur by Judith Grbich

Volume 21, December 2004

• Identity, Authenticity, Technology and the Representative Refugee by Anna Szorenyi 
• Subcutaneous Law, Embodying the Migration Amendment Act 1992 by Joseph Pugliese
• Dereliction, Women, Rape and Football by Nina Philadelphoff-Puren
• Provocation in Crisis by Adrian Howe
• Women Petitioners of the 17th Century English Revolution by Amanda Whiting
• The Pimp in Law by Kate Gleeson

Volume 20, June 2004

• Legal Feminism - Now and Then? by Margaret Davies and Kathy Mack 
• Neoliberal Melancholia: The Case of Feminist Legal Scholarship by Margaret Thornton
• Examining Understandings of Equality: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? by Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan
• Is Feminist Law Reform Flawed? Abstentionists and Sceptics by Susan M Armstrong
• A Feminist Model of Mediation that Centralises the Role Of Lawyers as Advocates for Participants Who are Victims of Domestic Violence by Rachael Field
• Growing Up the Space: A Conversation About the Future of Feminism
• Interview of Irene Watson And Mary Heath
• Recognition of Same Sex Relationships and The Sex Discrimination Act 1984

Volume 19, December 2003

• A Disclosure of Law's Foundation by Jennifer Beard and Sundhya Pahuja 
• The Cixousian Feminine and the Quest of Law's Origin by Sara Ramshaw
• Sovereignty, Order and Anarchy in Positive Law by Jill Stauffer
• Savage Sources and Feminine Law by Peter Fitzpatrick
• A Proper Account of Property and Native Title by Lee Godden
• Commodifying Land in Uganda by Ambreena Manji
• Haraway and Cyborg Emancipation by Bradley Bryan
• Peter Fitzpatrick's Modernism and the Grounds of Law by Mark Antaki

Volume 18, June 2003

• Taxation, Fairness and Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector by Miranda Stewart 
• International Development Programs and Christian Theology by Jennifer Beard
• Australia's Judgment of Unauthorised Arrivals at the Airport by Connal Parsley
• Sex, Crime and Buffy by Amanda Alexander
• Female Genital Mutilation Act 1996 by Juliet Rogers
• Women, the Public Sphere and Ethical Sensibility by Sandra Berns
• Margaret Thornton on The Legal Academy

Volume 17, December 2002

• Women's Rights, Globalisation and the Nation-state by Bronwyn Winter 
• Women, Work and Welfare by Angela Barns and Alison Preston
• Globalisaiton and Prostitution by Sam Horsfield
• Women's Health in the Global Village by Belinda Bennett
• Law, Genetics and Globalisation by Isabel Karpin and Karen O'Connell

Volume 16, June 2002

• Poem by MTC Cronin 
• Cubillo v Commonwealth by Hannah Robert
• Australia's New 'Deserving Poor' by Sandra Berns
• Women and the Shrinking State by Rosemary Hunter
• Assisted Insemination in Queensland by Simona Gory
• False Complainants in Sexual Assault by Wendy Larcombe
• Why Feminists Don't Talk about Myra by Belinda Morrissey
• Legal Concept of Obscenity - A Genealogy by Sonya Sceats
• Women in the law - what next? by the Hon Justice Michael Kirby

Volume 15, December 2001

• Literary Litigations by Mieke Bal 
• Reconciliation, Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Paradox in Australia by Paul Patton
• Bringing them Home and Benang by Kim Scott by Anthony Uhlmann
• Reading Heterotopic Spaces in Pascoe's Fox, Ruby-eyed Coucal, and Shark by Alisoun Neville
• Reading the Law Through the Narrative of Trauma by Alisoun Neville
• Reading the Law Through the Narrative of Trauma by Sandra Rudland
• 'Authenticity' Debate and Protection for Aboriginal Culture by Stephen Gray
• Colonialism, Mabo and Legal Racism by Judith Grbich

Volume 14, March 2000

• Islam and the Laws of Marriage by Qudsia Mirza 
• Transgender Jurisprudence and the Spectre of Homsexuality by Andrew Sharpe
• International Trade Law by Sundhya Pahuja
• Eugenics, Law and the 'Problem' of 'Disability' by Fiona Campbell
• Whiteness and Stories of Rape by Janet Galbraith
• Practising Feminism by Lisa Sarmas
• Racism and Administrative Law

Praxis Notes - Jeannine Purdy

• Feminism in the Legal Academy by Margaret Thornton
• Defense tactics in Intrafamilial Sexual Assault Trials by Shannon Taylor

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