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This book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Decolonising the Law School
Heather Douglas and Nicole Watson Part One: Recognising that Terra Nullius Never Left, and Reimagining Law and Legal Education to Achieve our Own Ends 2. Indigenous Lawyering: Colonial Legal Formations and Decolonial Manoeuvres
Osca Monaghan 3. Evidence Given by Eddie Cubillo to the Yoorrook Justice Commission
Eddie Cubillo and Jaynaya Dwyer 4. The Shackles of Terra Nullius in Child Protection 'Reforms'
Terri Libesman, Paul Gray and Kirsten Gray 5. 'Who Built this Fence?' Regenerating Faculty Landscapes for Lasting Educational Reform
Simon Young and Kirstie Smith 6. Challenges and Strategies for Incorporating Indigenous Laws and Histories Across Legal Education Curriculum
Annette Gainsford, Alison Gerard and Emma Colvin Part Two: Changing Thinking through Theory 7. Storytelling - The Power of First Nations Jurisprudence
Larissa Behrendt 8. Genre Outlaw: Ruby Langford Ginibi
Suvendrini Perera 9. Relationality as Indigenous Teaching Praxis in Legal Education
Marcelle Burns 10. Decolonising the Common Law: Beyond Colonial Thinking
Pekeri Ruska and Jennifer Nielsen 11. Legal Education and First Nations Teaching and Learning Methodologies: Storytelling/Yarning, Deep Listening, and Lived Experience
Narelle Bedford Part Three: Applying an Indigenous Lens to Law School Curricula 12. Teaching Students to Appreciate the Significance of the Plaintiff's Aboriginality in Intentional Torts Cases
Nicole Watson 13. Reflecting on the 'General Part' When There is Systemic Injustice: Do we Inadvertently Facilitate Overcriminalisation of First Peoples in Australia?
Mary Spiers Williams 14. What's Aristotle's Totem Anyway? Indigenous Systems of Law and Governance and the Australian Public Law Curriculum
Aurora Milroy and Karinda Burns 15. Unsettling Australian Clinical Legal Education
Amanda Porter and Eddie Cubillo 16. Native Title: Steps Toward a Decolonised Law Curriculum
Lee Godden
About the author
Nicole Watson is a Mununjali and Birri Gubba woman from south-east Queensland. She is Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
Heather Douglas, whose heritage is Scottish and Irish, is Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education.
