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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.
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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.
