Social & Legal Studies
Book Review: Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law by MARIANA VALVERDE
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social & Legal Studies
Book Review: Leading Works in Criminal Law by CHLOË KENNEDY AND LINDSAY FARMER
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social & Legal Studies
‘The Irregular’ and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on the important aspect of India’s democratic decline, the ascendance of the Hindu majoritarian state, and its relationship with the law. It argues that the law is central to the Hindu maj…
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‘Back Off! Stop Making US Illegal!’: The Criminalisation of Homelessness in Australia
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In Australia, vagrancy and public order laws have been used to criminalise homelessness since colonisation. Such laws have never provided an effective deterrent against ‘offending’ because most crimes committe…
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Book Review: Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples’ Engagement with Legal Regulation by FLORA RENZ
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social & Legal Studies
Book Review: Victimhood, Memory and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo by KATJA FRANKO AND DAVID R GOYES
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social & Legal Studies
Forced Marriage in Australia: Building a Social Response with Frontline Workers
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. The practice of forced marriage has been the subject of focussed attention over the past 15 years in Australia. The policy approach has largely centred on criminal law responses. In this paper we turn to the s…
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Judicial Constructions of Harm in Australian Image-Based Sexual Abuse Case Law: A Feminist Discourse Analysis
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Despite almost every Australian state and territory criminalizing image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), which includes the non-consensual taking, creating, or sharing of intimate images, judicial discourse in this …
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“The Problem is the Law and Women’s Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In this article, I explore gender justice in relation to the sociolegal status of marriage practices and how women address marital disputes. My research is based on 9 months of immersive fieldwork in Uvira, De…
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Book Review: Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood by JENNIFER HENDRICKS
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