Call for Papers and Submissions
Critical Legal Conference 2021 – University of Dundee – 2-4 September 2021 The Agency of the Artist-scholar We invite presentations that explore the figure of the artist-scholar. The agency of the artist-scholar is almost always post-contemporary. It engages with arts and literature (sensorial and textual knowledge) across time-senses. When it does break through the norms…
The Australian Feminist Law Journal wishes to appoint a new editorial team to take over the leadership of the journal from the current board. Launched over 25 years ago, the Australian Feminist Law Journal was created to focus on research that uses critical feminist approaches to law and justice. We publish research informed by critical…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47(2), 2021 Special Issue Editors: Miriam Bak McKenna and Maj Grasten A core concern of critical feminist legal studies is the gendered nature of the language of law. Language conducts and projects power and struggles. Its usage is both a political tool and a…
The Graphic Justice Research Alliance (GJRA) is delighted to announce a call for papers for its 2020 annual conference to be hosted by Middlesex University London. The conference will be held online on Tuesday 8 December 2020. It promises to be an exciting event; accessible and relevant to scholars, artists, practitioners, policymakers, writers, and the…
Special Issue of Law & Critique(Issue 3 of Volume 32, to be published November 2021) On behalf of the Editorial Committee of Law & Critique, Special Issue Editors Dr Ben Golder (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Dr Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria, Canada) invite expressions of interest from scholars interested in submitting a…
We get the metaphors we deserve. Metaphors are indispensable tools for making sense of reality, including the ongoing reality of systemic colonial relations—or to obfuscate it (to deflect the need to enact substantive decolonisation agendas, for example). In times of crisis they perform a crucial role in translating and interpreting a rapidly changing world. Viral…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 47.1, June 2021 Special Issue Editors: Dr Gina Heathcote, Dr Paola Zichi, Alice Finden This special issue will bring together research addressing hygiene, coloniality and law, and their instrumentalisation as regulatory tools of governance. Discursive understandings of morality and sexual mores were central…
Call for Papers Australian Feminist Law Journal: A Critical Legal Journal. Volume 46.2 December 2020 Special Issue Editor: Nan Seuffert Recent years have witnessed a global explosion of discourse around sexuality focusing on debate over the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate sex under the banner of the #metoo campaign. In this context of genuine confusion…
Cultural legal studies is a burgeoning field, encountering law and justice in relation to a wide variety of cultural and artistic forms. It engages not merely representations of law and justice, but the role that culture plays in constituting the very possibility of legality. The aim of this Handbook is to help consolidate this field…
I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to…