Law, Lawyers and Justice

Preface

List of Contributors

Part I The unsettled law and justice of Australia

Chapter 1 Australian lenses on law, lawyers and justice

Kim D. Weinert, Karen Crawley and Kieran Tranter

Chapter 2 Crime drama and national identity on Australian television, 1960-2019

Cassandra Sharp

Chapter 3 Whose country? Colonialism and the rule of law in Sweet Country and Charlie's Country

Jack Quirk and Julian R. Murphy

Chapter 4 Taking a lens to the chase in Australian settler state colonialism

Thalia Anthony and Kieran Tranter

Chapter 5 Vilification, vigilantism and violence: troubling social media in Australia

Chris Cunneen and Sophie Russell

Chapter 6 Picnic at Hanging Rock: Coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution

Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk

Chapter 7 Haunted colonialism: space, place and colonialism in The Babadook

Pauline Klippmark

Chapter 8 Being engaged in colonial critique by Mojo Juju's 'Native Tongue'

Kirsty Duncanson

Part II Australian gendered identities and law

Chapter Nine Rake and Rumpole - mavericks for justice: purity and impurity in legal professionalism

John Flood

Chapter 10 Cleaver Greene: the legal larrikin on Australian screens

Lili Paquet

Chapter 11 Eyes wide shut: homosociality, justice and male rape through an Australian lens

Bruce Baer Arnold

Chapter 12 Romper Stomper: a critique of neoliberalism in Australia

Kim D. Weinert

Chapter 13 Justice at the end of Fury Road

Kieran Tranter

Chapter 14 Going bunta on Western law: violent jurisdictions, melodrama and the Australian carceral imaginary in Wentworth

Laura Joseph and Honni van Rijswijk