Legal Feminism – Now and Then?
Feminist Legal Academics Workshop 2003
Flinders University
School of Law
Adelaide, Australia
19-21 June, 2003
Throughout the 1990s the feminist critique of law became a major, if controversial,
part of the legal academy. This conference will reflect on a decade of feminist
legal scholarship, pedagogy and practice since the first Feminist Legal Academics
Workshop [F-LAW] was held in the early nineties. Has feminist legal critique
become something which many of us do “now and then”?
- What impact has feminism had on law and legal education?
- Has feminist legal thought become more mainstream, or more marginalised?
- Has academic legal feminism become more, or less, connected to feminism
in legal practice?
- Has Western legal feminism responded adequately to challenges raised by
Indigenous women, and women from ethnic and racial minorities? What issues
are raised by the growing internationalisation of feminist critique?
In keeping with previous F-LAW conferences, the main conference will be preceded
by a one-day workshop focussing on law and bisexual, lesbian, gay and transgender
issues. Everyone with an interest in these issues is invited to participate.
Confirmed Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Kathleen Mahoney, of the Law School at the University of Calgary,
Canada, will be the keynote speaker for the Feminist Legal Academic
Workshop, to be held 19-21 June in Adelaide, Australia. Many of you will
be familiar with Kathleen's work in a wide range of areas involving
gender equality, including international human rights, especially on the
issue of systematic rape as a crime of genocide. She has received
numerous awards for her achievements as an advocate and scholar in
pursuit of equality. She has made particularly valuable contributions in
Australia in relation to questions of gender bias in the judiciary. Her
visit has been generously supported by the Law Foundation of South Australia.
Her
presentation is entitled: "The Fate of Canada's Best Known Feminist
Judge - The Good the Bad and the Ugly." This paper will look at the
career of the Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dube, recently retired judge of the
Supreme Court of Canada, her contributions to the law, to equality and to
the women's movement in Canada over her career on the bench. The paper
will also comment on the high costs of her interest in equality and her
feminist thinking, looking especially at the consequences resulting from
the infamous "McClung Affair."
| Radhika Coomaraswamy
Due to unforeseen and pressing commitments in Sri Lanka she will not be
available to attend the conference. |
Catherine Branson
Justice of the Federal Court of Australia |
Gail Mason
Law School, Sydney University |
| Susanne Cole
Judge of the Environment Resources and Development
Court of South Australia
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Jenny Morgan
Law School, Melbourne University
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| Margaret Davies
Law School, Flinders University |
Ngaire Naffine
Law School, University of Adelaide |
Anne Edwards
Vice-Chancellor, Flinders University |
Margaret Thornton
Law and Legal Studies, Latrobe University |
Reg Graycar
Law School, Sydney University
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Irene Watson
Lawyer, Activist |
| Rosemary Hunter
Dean, Griffith Law School |
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Call for Papers
Papers are invited on any area of law, addressing any of the above issues.
If you wish to submit an abstract for a paper for either the main conference
(20-21 June) or the one-day workshop (19 June), or to be put on our mailing
list, please send an email to: f-law@flinders.edu.au.
The date for submission of abstracts has been extended until Monday 12 May.
Discounted student registration fees for full time postgraduate or undergraduate
students
Conference [Friday and Saturday and the welcome reception] $150 one day
registration $75 half day registration $50.
Pre-conference bisexual/lesbian/gay/transexual
workshop [Thursday]: $45
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