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Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter (eds): Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law

Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2014, 462 pp, ISBN: 978-1-84946-521-2

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  1. See Davies (2012, 169).

  2. See Majury (2006).

  3. See Australian Feminist Judgment Project. http://www.law.uq.edu.au/the-australian-feminist-judgments-project. Accessed 30 January 2016.

  4. Hunter et al. (2010).

  5. See England and Wales Feminist Judgment Project. https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/fjp. Accessed 30 January 2016.

  6. The first project conducted was the Women’s Court of Canada, http://www.thecourt.ca/decisions-of-the-womens-court-of-canada/. The second project conducted was in England and Wales, supra n 4 and 5. See also the more recent Northern/Ireland Feminist Judgment Project, http://www.feministjudging.ie/ and related forthcoming publication: Enright et al. (2016). Accessed 30 January 2016.

  7. See Chapter 9, 136.

  8. See Chapter 3, 53.

  9. Chapter 1, 8.

  10. See Chapter 11, 179, where Heron Loban envisages an Indigenous judge also sitting with the presiding judge in the Federal Court in ACCC v Keshow [2005] FCA 558, and Chapter 27 in which Nicole Watson’s re-imagined judgment Djappari (Re Tuckiar) [2035] FNCA 1 is set in the imaginary Indiginous First Nations Court of Australia.

  11. Hale (2008).

  12. For the educational opportunities presented by feminist legal judgments in higher education teaching see Hunter (2012), Duncan (2012), Koshan et al (2010).

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Kyneswood, N. Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter (eds): Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. Fem Leg Stud 24, 111–114 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-016-9311-2

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