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Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens

Decolonising the Law School

Nicole Watson Heather Douglas

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English
Routledge
11 December 2024
This book provides a comprehensive resource for accommodating and pursuing Indigenous perspectives in legal education.

The book is divided into three sections. The first section highlights the continuing issues that Indigenous people face in law schools, and universities, including the ongoing impacts of colonization and intergenerational trauma, institutional racism and exclusion, and the denial of historical acts of institutional theft. This section also includes chapters that explore arguments for the recognition of Indigenous legal knowledge, of knowledge about the impact of settler law, and the incorporation of Indigenous concepts, laws and ways of thinking about settler law across the curriculum. The second section explores how Indigenous ways of reading and thinking about settler law make a difference to how settler law is understood and interpreted. Contributors consider the power of storytelling, and of situating Indigenous law as a form of natural law; they also address the prospect of law’s decolonization. The third section of the book grapples with how traditional law school subjects can be taught through an Indigenous lens, including torts, public law, property, and criminal law and sentencing. Throughout, the book demonstrates the importance of, and offers practical advice for, teaching law in a way that includes critical Indigenous perspectives.

This book will be of enormous value to teachers, researchers and students in law, legal studies, and indigenous studies, as well as others with an interest in decolonizing legal education.
Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781032753157
ISBN 10:   1032753153
Pages:   294
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
1. Introduction: Decolonising the Law School Heather Douglas and Nicole Watson Part One: Recognising that Terra Nullius Never Left, and Reimagining Law and Legal Education to Achieve our Own Ends 2. Indigenous Lawyering: Colonial Legal Formations and Decolonial Manoeuvres Osca Monaghan 3. Evidence Given by Eddie Cubillo to the Yoorrook Justice Commission Eddie Cubillo and Jaynaya Dwyer 4. The Shackles of Terra Nullius in Child Protection ‘Reforms’ Terri Libesman, Paul Gray and Kirsten Gray 5. ‘Who Built this Fence?’ Regenerating Faculty Landscapes for Lasting Educational Reform Simon Young and Kirstie Smith 6. Challenges and Strategies for Incorporating Indigenous Laws and Histories Across Legal Education Curriculum Annette Gainsford, Alison Gerard and Emma Colvin Part Two: Changing Thinking through Theory 7. Storytelling – The Power of First Nations Jurisprudence Larissa Behrendt 8. Genre Outlaw: Ruby Langford Ginibi Suvendrini Perera 9. Relationality as Indigenous Teaching Praxis in Legal Education Marcelle Burns 10. Decolonising the Common Law: Beyond Colonial Thinking Pekeri Ruska and Jennifer Nielsen 11. Legal Education and First Nations Teaching and Learning Methodologies: Storytelling/Yarning, Deep Listening, and Lived Experience Narelle Bedford Part Three: Applying an Indigenous Lens to Law School Curricula 12. Teaching Students to Appreciate the Significance of the Plaintiff’s Aboriginality in Intentional Torts Cases Nicole Watson 13. Reflecting on the ‘General Part’ When There is Systemic Injustice: Do we Inadvertently Facilitate Overcriminalisation of First Peoples in Australia? Mary Spiers Williams 14. What’s Aristotle’s Totem Anyway? Indigenous Systems of Law and Governance and the Australian Public Law Curriculum Aurora Milroy and Karinda Burns 15. Unsettling Australian Clinical Legal Education Amanda Porter and Eddie Cubillo 16. Native Title: Steps Toward a Decolonised Law Curriculum Lee Godden

Nicole Watson is a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman from south-east Queensland. She is Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Heather Douglas is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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