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Originally published in 2005. This interdisciplinary collection addresses, from a range of perspectives, the theme of 'changing law'. The essays cover historical and contemporary issues of social, political and legal change, including human rights, security, and law reform.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction, Rosemary Hunter and Mary Keyes. Part I Changing States, Changing Rights: Human rights, sovereignty, humanism, Costas Douzinas; Some history on the back of the security envelope, David Saunders; Governing security: the age of diversity, Clifford Shearing. Part II Changing Laws, Changing Institutions: Frozen Chooks revisited: the challenge of changing law/s, Reg Graycar; Restructuring the Universities, remaking the (legal) academy? the law school, 'Knowledge Economy' and uncertain future of (critical) socio-legal studies, Richard Collier; Changing the academic subject, Erica McWilliam. Part III Achieving Justice: Terra Nullius and the possessive logic of patriarchal whiteness: race and law matters, Aileen Moreton-Robinson; The relevance of the rights agenda in the age of practical reconciliation, Larissa Behrendt; Conscientious participation: working the law back to its bones, Andrea Durbach; Index.
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Mary Keyes
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Originally published in 2005. This interdisciplinary collection addresses, from a range of perspectives, the theme of 'changing law'. The essays cover historical and contemporary issues of social, political and legal change, including human rights, security, and law reform.
