Volume 43.2, December 2017 Deadline of May 30th, 2017 The Australian Feminist Law Journal is seeking articles for publication for the next General Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 43.2 (December 2017). The journal focuses upon scholarly research using critical feminist approaches to law and justice, broadly conceived. As an international Critical Legal Journal we…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2017 – Extended until 24th February! The Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC for a minimum period of two weeks in 2017. The Visiting PhD Scholar Program aims to support high quality interdisciplinary PhD research in LIRC’s…
Edited by Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, Italy and Marett Leiboff, University of Wollongong, Australia The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various…
Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal Call for Papers: Special Issue Vol 44.1 June 2018 Gender, War and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century Special Issue Editors: Emily Jones, Sara Kendall and Yoriko Otomo While feminist approaches to international law are flourishing, and while the international community has taken up…
Olivia Barr, ‘A Jurisprudential Tale of a Road, an Office and a Triangle’ (2015) 27:2 Law and Literature 199. Katherine Biber, ‘”Peeping: Open justice and law’s voyeurs”‘ in Sharp, C. & Leiboff, M. (eds), Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law, Routledge, 2016, pp. 160-182. Karen Crawley, ‘The Critical Force of Irony:…
Marco Wan, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016) How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which…
Hosted by the Cardozo Law School in collaboration with the Roma Tre- Law School May 25-28 2017 International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law CALL FOR PAPERS Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal Discourse The use and practice of exemplarity are rooted in classic rhetoric, literature, politics and law. Because of the shift from pre-modern…
Deadline of December 15th 2016 The Australian Feminist Law Journal calls for Proposals for the positions of Special Editor(s) of a Special Themed Issue of the Journal, namely Volume 44.1 (June 2018). Special Editors work in conjunction with the Editorial Board to create a theme, solicit articles, organize the referee process, make publication decisions and…
The law and technology project is one of the foundational flagship commitments of the Law Futures Centre. The project aims to explore the challenges of technological change on culture, law and public institutions. The project is aligned with the Centre’s law, risk and innovation programme and encompasses Centre members’ research into autonomy, artificial intelligence, digital…
Here’s a sample of the publications generated by the LLHAA community this year: Cassandra Sharp, “Justice with a Vengeance: Retributive Desire in Popular Imagination” in M. Asimow & K. Brown eds, Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives (2014) 153-176. The punishment of criminal behaviour has always been a hot topic in popular culture. Whether in…