Australian Law in Context: Social, Political and Global Perspectives

A critical examination of Australian law in operation

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Law is a human activity. This engaging book examines the contexts underpinning Australian law and goes beyond its language and institutions to enquire into how legal norms operate in practice. It aims to demystify the law, whilst critically analysing its value and creatively exploring how it might be reformed to serve justice more fully in a complex world.

The authors address four major themes: the liberal foundations of Australian law, the hurdles generally encountered by law in its endeavour to lead to positive social change, the impact of social divisions such as class, gender or race on the application of the law, including its resulting failures for the marginalised, and the influences of globalisation on the shape and operation of Australian law.

The critical approach of the authors presents theories of law from different viewpoints, inviting readers to determine their own responses to its operation across a range of issues. The accessible, coherent and structured analysis makes the book an ideal introduction to the socio-legal foundations and operation of Australian law for students, lawyers and non-legal audiences.

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  • Accessible
  • Logically structured
  • Plentiful examples to support discussion

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Ciprian Radavoi
Stephen Norris

Ciprian Radavoi

Ciprian Radavoi has a background in human rights law (lawyer in a firm with cases at the European Court of Human Rights) and diplomacy (consular positions in Northern Africa and in Asia). Since 2014 he taught international law and social justice subjects in China and in Australia, and has published extensively on these matters.

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Stephen Norris

Stephen Norris has a background in philosophy, having completed his doctorate in 2013. He has been part of the teaching team at the University of New England for Law in Context since graduating. His approach to both teaching and life itself is based on the Socratic Maxim ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’.

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Table of contents

Introduction

 
Part I: The Philosophy of the Rule of Law

 
1. Liberalism as the Philosophical Foundation of Australian Law

 
2. The Rule of Law, Formalism and Legal Reasoning

 
Part II: Limits to the Law’s Efficacy as a Social Change Agent 

 
3. Law and Power

 
4. Law and Morality

 
Part III: Law, (In)Equality and Social Change 

 
5. Law and Class

 
6. Law and Gender

 
7. Law and Race

 
8. Law and the First Australians 

 
Part IV: Australian Law in a Globalised World

 
9. Law and Human Rights

 
10. Law and Counterterrorism

 
11. Law and Transnational Corporations

 
12. Law and Artificial Intelligence
 

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