Abstracts

Abstracts have been received and accepted from:

Renata Alexander, Monash University Law School
Feminism and Family Law in Australia

Marilyn Bartole, Women Lawyers Association of NSW
Women Lawyers Associations: Are They Still Relevant?

Greta Bird, Southern Cross University
Body, Heart, Mind and Spirit: Pedagogy As Feminist Practice

Kathy Douglas, School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT
Tracing the History of Teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution in Law Schools: Have Feminist Issues Slipped from View?

Rachel Field, Justice Studies, Law, QUT
A Feminist Model of Mediation that Centralises the Role of Lawyers as Advocates for Participants who are Victims of Violence

Laura Grenfell, University of Adelaide Law School
Post Bellinger and Re Kevin, what is a woman?

Asa Gunnarsson, Umea University, Sweden
How to Open the Gate

Barbara Hamilton,QUT
New remedies for elder abuse: and what led me to a feminist perspective in my research

Terry Hutchinson, School of Law QUT
Australian Feminist Legal Literature: Tabulating Achievement

Amy Kilpatrick, ANU and Office of Commonwealth Ombudsman
A window into the experiences and career ambitions of women law students, or, the fate of public interest law at law school: Results from an empirical study at the Australian National University

Catherine Iorns Magallanes, Victoria University of Wellington
The Rape-Revenge Narrative in Film: Feminism and Social Change through Violence not Law

Susan Magarey, Adelaide University
The Sex Discrimination Act 1984

Fiona Martin and Rachel Field, QUT
What Women Experience at Law School: The QUT Experience

Marcia Neave, VIctorian Law Reform Commissioner
Dilemmas for Feminist Law Reformers

Sylwia Nilsson, Umea University, Sweden
Female patients and Gender neutrality

Fran Olsen UCLA Law School, USA
Colonial Practices, Western Legal Feminism and Ethiopian Women

Sharyn Roach Anleu, Sociology, Flinders University
Magistrates' Everyday Work and Emotional Labour

Carolina Ruiz-Austria, WomanLead Foundation, Phillipines
Feminist Legal Theory in the Philippines: Recent History, Trends and Future Directions

Elfriede Sangkuhl, University of Western Sydney
Academic --Sidelined in the Equality Debate?

Elizabeth Sheehy, University of Ottowa, Canada
Battered Women and Self-Defence: Still crazy after all these years

Eva-Maria Svensson, University of Goteborg, Sweden
Jurisprudence and the impacts of Feminist Legal Studies

Margaret Thornton, LaTrobe University
Neoliberal Melancholia: The Case of Feminist Legal Scholarship

Kristen Walker, University of Melbourne Law School
Recognition of Queer Families: Birth Certificates