Australian Feminist Law Journal

Queer Judgments Published in Australian Feminist Law Journal (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Very excited to share the publication of Aishwarya Birla’s review of ‘Queer Judgments’ (Ferreira, Moscati & Raj)! 📚 A fantastic piece to kick off our book review publications. Submit/enquire at aflj.bookreviews@outlook.com

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A Prison is a Prison is a Prison This essay reflects on the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia. It begins with the tragic death of Selesa Tafaifa, who was killed in custody, highlight...

New publication! 🌻 'A Prison is a Prison is a Prison', by Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy, reflects on the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia.

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Abolitions, Domestic and International Recent calls for an abolition movement for international (criminal) law take their grounding in decades of abolition writing built from local and national struggles against incarceration, police br...

A new publication for our 2025 Special Issue! 💫 In this article, Martin Clark examines 'domestic' and 'international' abolition, asking how the international abolition movement should go about engaging with domestic abolition.

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A Prison is a Prison is a Prison This essay reflects on the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia. It begins with the tragic death of Selesa Tafaifa, who was killed in custody, highlight...

The first article of the AFLJ 2025 Special Issue is online now! Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy's provocative, poignant, and hugely important article is available here:

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Translation of Consent from Gender and Feminist Studies to Biodiversity Law Global biodiversity loss requires an assessment of the effectiveness of the existing legal frameworks and the construction of new ones when needed. The subordination of environmental protection to ...

✨ Read the new paper from Maksim Lavrik, in which the author argues that the subordination of environmental protection to the necessities of economic development has similarities with the long history of women’s oppression. Interesting and timely.

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Sexual and Gender Based Violence Only for the ‘Others’? The Islamic State against Muslim Women This article is an inquiry into the limits of international criminal law (ICL) to pursue feminist goals. It argues that international criminal courts and tribunals have failed to prosecute intra-gr...

🌻Read Gozde Turan's new article, 'Sexual and Gender Based Violence Only for the ‘Others’? A fantastic contribution to the discourse around sexual and gender-based crimes in conflict.

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The successful applicant will be employed by Melbourne Law School on a casual basis. Applications are due by Friday 12 September!

The AFLJ is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer to assist with its copyediting, outreach and engagement activities! Are you a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law? This position could be perfect for you! drive.google.com/file/d/16z3u...

Author Meets Readers: Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing The following is an edited version of an Author Meets Readers conversation held on 20 February 2025 at UNSW Sydney celebrating Ann Genovese’s book Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (Rout...

Celebrate the publication of Ann Genovese’s ‘Feminist Jurisography’ with this brilliant conversation between author and readers. Follow the conversation, with Ann Genovese, Ann Curthoys, Alecia Simmonds, and Angela Kintominas.

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Keen to publish in the AFLJ? We publish online year-round, but if you’re interesting in publishing in our 2025 General Issue, submit by 30 June. Our amazing Editors can’t wait to work with you! (Or contact us: australianfeministlawjournal@outlook.com)

The Politics of Legal Form: An Essay on Subjunctive Jurisprudence This essay situates the jurisprudential practice of the Feminist Judgments Projects (FJPs) within a wider category of ‘subjunctive jurisprudence’. It thereby aims to do several things. Initially, t...

🚨New article! Our latest is a phenomenal paper by Ben Golder, which situates the jurisprudential practice of the Feminist Judgments Projects within a wider category of ‘subjunctive jurisprudence' - 10/10, highly recommend!

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Deadline extended! Submit your proposal for the 2026 issue of the AFLJ by 31 March 2025 to australianfeministlawjournal@outlook.com

Are We Human Or are We Dancer?: Sex, Drugs, and Bodies of Law In Frames of War, Judith Butler poses the problem of apprehending a life and argues that ‘specific lives cannot be apprehended as injured or lost if they are not first apprehended as living’. This ...

🚨New article! Sean Mulcahy and Kate Seear draw on the feminist legal scholarship of Judith Butler and Ratna Kapur to explore who is considered 'living' in the context of drug law and policy, critical drug scholarship, and human rights. Sensitive and important.

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Call for papers! We are currently accepting submissions to our 2025 General Issue. If you have a paper that takes a feminist approach to law and justice (broadly conceived), submit online by 30 May 2025, or contact us for more details.

Do you have an event, workshop, conference, or idea that would make a great Special Issue for the AFLJ? We’d love to read your proposals for 2026! Click the link below to submit and for more details on issue requirements, dates, and deadlines, or contact us.
 
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‼️ New from
Inês Espinhaço Gomes, who analyses the case of athlete Caster Semenya before the European Court of Human Rights, through the lenses of queer legal theory and intersectional feminism. A fantastic - and important - read!

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Trauma Work – On Writing Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare–Red Mist Rage Unmasked This paper revisits the traumatic process of writing Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare.

In our first ever #praxis piece, Adrian Howe revisits the traumatic process of writing her new book, ‘Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare’. This one is a cracker - read here 👇🏼☄️

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Do you have an event, workshop, conference, or idea that would make a great Special Issue for the AFLJ? We’d love to read your proposals for 2026! Click the link below to submit and for more details on issue requirements, dates, and deadlines, or contact us.
 
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We offer a supportive and collegial editorial process to support emerging feminist scholars, practitioners and advocates enter the world of scholarly publishing.

If you have, or know of, a brilliant Honours project, we’d love to hear from you! For more: australianfeministlawjour al@outlook.com

Flying Free? Risk and Regulation in Recreational Flying Trapeze Legal and regulatory theory has been fascinated by the relationship between law and other forms of regulation in a differentiated society. While some scholars have pointed out the benefits of local...

🚨 New article! In the latest from the AFLJ, Amanda Alexander interrogates law and regulatory techniques in flying trapeze - are recreational flyers, usually women, really as free as they seem? Read it here 👇🏼

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Queering the Rome Statute: Searching for the International Criminal Court’s Potential to Do Justice to Queer People The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is tasked with holding individuals accountable for the perpetration of the most heinous international crimes. However, the Rome Statute do...

🚨In our latest article, author Lars van der Ent examines the extent to which the ICC can protect queer people, arguing that the Rome Statute is limited in its capacity to do justice for queer people. Read it here!

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Between Consumption and Liberation – A Critical Analysis of Women’s Legal Trajectory of Emancipation, Regulation and Gender Pricing Law is always perceived as pivotal to women’s emancipation. Women gaining any form of legal recognition is construed as a step towards gender equality. Therefore, when looking to address issues aro...

In our most recent article, @suzanarahde.bsky.social takes a Queer Marxist lens to examine gender pricing as a site of regulation of gendered identities 🌟 A fantastic read! Access it here:

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Affirmative Consent is Not Enough: A Feminist Critique of the NSW Reforms and the Limits of Consent under Patriarchy On 1 June 2022, long-awaited reforms to the law of sexual consent came into force in NSW. The central feature of the amendments is the introduction of affirmative consent – a ‘yes means yes’ standa...

First article alert! 🚨 Issue 50(2) kicks off with a bang as Genevieve Couvret considers the NSW model of affirmative consent in the context of feminist theory, with particular focus on the work of Catharine MacKinnon.

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Introduction to the Special Issue Romancing the Tomes 2.0: Feminism, Law and Popular Culture Published in Australian Feminist Law Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Interested in what our recently completed Special Issue, 'Romancing the Tomes 2.0: Feminism, Law and Popular Culture' offers? Read the introduction from the editors here:

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Feminist Witnessing: Everywhere All At Once: Coercive Control and the Impacts of Feminist Law Reform Efforts on Popular Culture The term ‘coercive control’, referring to patterns of control, manipulation and abuse committed against current or former intimate partners and family members, has entered both the cultural and leg...

The final article in our most recent Special Issue is now online in advance! Here, Sanam Amin argues that recognition of coercive control as an aspect of domestic violence is an example of how feminism, law and popular culture are related. Important and timely.

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Final Fatal Girls – Horror and the Legal Subject In mainstream culture, the horror genre is frequently looked down upon as trivial, shlocky and nasty – horror films are seen as being cheap to make, made for a younger, mass audience, and horror fi...

In this fascinating new article, Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk explore the ‘progressive, subversive and critical’ potential of the horror genre, and what it means for the law. Read in full -

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Horror in the Halls of Law: Pluralising Legal Stories in Once Upon a Time in Australia In 2021, the Me Too movement took prominence in Australia following incidents which exposed gendered violence in the nation’s chief political, and legal institutions. The authors, teachers and stud...

In the latest article for the AFLJ’s current Special Issue, authors of the graphic novel ‘Once Upon a Time in Australia’ Sarouche Razi, Anne Macduff, and Kirsten Hoffman reflect and engage in a process they term ‘critical performative iterations’ - read here!

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Calling all legal theorists! The AFLJ is extending the call for papers deadline for its next General Issue. Working on something engaging with critical feminist approaches to law and justice? Submit by 28 June 2024!

⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️
Check Margaret Thornton (ANU College of Law) and
Johanna Commins' (Melbourne Law School) discussion 'On Romancing the Tomes: Popular Culture, Law and Feminism: A Public Conversation.'

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⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️

Check @sarahailwood.bsky.social's (University of Wollongong) new article ‘Performance, Credibility and #MeToo Testimony in Rush v Nationwide News Pty Ltd.'

#law #feministjurisprudence

Read it online here 👉👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13200968.2024.2326674