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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

This article analyses the case of athlete Caster Semenya before the European Court of Human Rights through the lenses of queer legal theory and intersectional feminism. It seeks to challenge the so...

This paper revisits the traumatic process of writing Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Published in Australian Feminist Law Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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...

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 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...