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During the past decade, a remarkable transference of jurisdiction to Indigenous children’s organisation has taken place in many parts of Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. This reform has taken place with little attention from academic and non-Indigenous communities. It has been influenced...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
Legal Personhood draws upon contemporary feminist philosophy in order to consider the meaning of legal personhood, its relationship to human freedom and autonomy and its connection to what is classified as public and private. Contemporary feminist philosophy has much to say about the ways in which...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Law, Justice and Ecology
Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment argues that the institution of private property is anthropocentric and needs to be reconceived. The dominant rights-based interpretation of private property entrenches the idea of human dominion over nature. Accordingly, nature is not...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal...
To Be Published November 5th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
Series: Social Justice
Queer Necropolitics comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
How do genocide and war crimes survivors become legal witnesses? Some fifty years after the criminal prosecutions of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals of World War Two, we have yet to fully understand how law codifies the traumas of genocides and war crimes. This problem has taken on a new...
To Be Published November 19th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
Series: Critical Concepts in Law
The thriving and well-established field of Law and Society (also referred to as Sociolegal Studies) has diverse methodological influences; it draws on social-scientific and arts-based methods. The approach of scholars researching and teaching in the field often crosses disciplinary borders, but,...
To Be Published November 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Law, Justice and Ecology
Wild Law – In Practice aims to facilitate the transition of Earth Jurisprudence from theory into to practice. Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging philosophy of law, coined by cultural historian and geologian, Thomas Berry. It seeks to analyse the contribution of law in constructing, maintaining and...
To Be Published November 27th 2013 by Routledge
While in the past family life was characterised as a "haven from the harsh realities of life", it is now recognised as a site of vulnerabilities and a place where care work can go unacknowledged and be a source of social and economic hardship. Vulnerabilities, Care and Family Law addresses the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
