Institute for International Law and the Humanities (Melbourne Law School) It’s hard to believe, but Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) is now 15 years old. This seems like an excellent reason to celebrate, and to...
Utopias and utopian thinking can often be seen as an exercise in dreaming; the unrealistic imagining of an impossible society. In the thinking behind laws and legal systems, there is an underpinned imagining of ideal worlds. Drawing from the work of Austin Sarat,...
WorkshopWorking with Benjamin on Law15, 16 & 17 July 2021ZfL Berlin & Online Organized by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (CONICET/UBA), Hannah Franzki (University of Bremen) & Rafael Vieira (UFRJ) The workshop is funded by the Walter Benjamin Award for Young...
The Australian Feminist Law Journal editorial board welcomes papers of 8,000–10,000 words for the upcoming AFLJ Special Issue on ‘Conceptualisations of Violence’. The Special Issue seeks to challenge and expand on prevailing legal conceptualisations of ‘violence’ (for...
Societies and publics in diverse political spaces are today confronted with social and political milieus that are ‘intentionally devoid of everything that a person needs to live’ (Bradley, 2019: 137). Such ‘hostile environments’ form spaces of abandonment, debility...
The Australian Feminist Law Journal (AFLJ) is pleased to announce its new Editorial Board. Founded in 1993, the AFLJ has been an important intellectual home for critical feminist legal scholarship in Australia and globally. We recognise the extraordinary commitment of...
