Reading Group
The Criminal Law Research Forum runs a monthly reading group during each semester from 1.00pm-2.00pm.
Please contact law-mclrf@unimelb.edu.au if you would like to be involved.
Semester 2
The topic for the second semester readings is Institutional Narratives, broadly understood. They run across different official and not-so-official institutions of criminal law and provide various ways that a focus on institutions assists, or not, in making sense of the practices of criminal law.
- Wednesday 3 August 2022
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Room 831
Summary Offences Amendment (Decriminalisiation of Public Drunkenness) Act 2021. The briefing note is here.
- Wednesday 24 August 2022
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Room 831
Tanya Mitchell (2021) “Munday v Gill revisited: rethinking the summary jurisdiction” Griffith Law Review Vol 30 No 4, 579-596. Article is available via the University Library catalogue here.
- Wednesday 14 September 2022
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Room 213
Lucy Welsh and Matt Howard (2019) “Standardization and the Production of Justice in Summary Criminal Courts: A Post-Human Analysis” Social & Legal Studies Vol. 28(6) 774–793. Article is available via the University Library catalogue here.
- Wednesday 5 October 2022
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Room 213
Julia Quilter J and Russell Hogg (2018) “The hidden punitiveness of fines” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 7(3): 9‐40. Article is available here.
- Wednesday 26 October 2022
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Room 213
Lilian Paquet (2021) "Seeking Justice Elsewhere: informal and formal justice in the true crime podcasts Trace and The Teacher's Pet" Crime Media Culture Vol 17(3) 421-437. Article is available via the University Library catalogue here.
- Wednesday 16 November 2022
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Room 213
Nicola Lacey (2007) “Space, Time and Function: intersecting principles of responsibility across the terrain of criminal justice” Criminal Law and Philosophy Vol 1, 233-250. Article is available via the University Library catalogue here.
- Wednesday 7 December 2022
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Room 831
Kate Leader (2020) “The trial’s the thing: performance and legitimacy in international criminal trials” Theoretical Criminology 24(2) 241-257. Article is available via the University Library catalogue here.
Semester 1
- Friday 4 March 2022
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Mary Spiers Williams, (2021) Bugmy v The Queen [2013] HCA 37 in Nicole Watson and Heather Douglas eds. Indigenous Legal Judgements, Routledge
- Friday 8 April 2022
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Federico Picinali (2021) The Presumption of Innocence: A Deflationary Account 84(4) Modern Law Review 708-739
- Friday 6 May 2022
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Julia Tolmie, (2018) Coercive control: To criminalize or not to criminalize? 18(1) Criminology & Criminal Justice, 50-66
- Friday 3 June 2022
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Roseanna Sommers, (2020) Commonsense consent, 129(8) The Yale Law Journal , 2232- 2324