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 1, 2023

Thursday 30 March 2023: Clare McGlynn (2022). Challenging anti-carceral feminism: Criminalisation, justice and continuum thinking. Women's Studies International Forum 93, 102614.
Thursday 27 April 2023: Arlie Loughnan, “Colin Howard’s Australian Criminal Law” in C Kennedy & L Farmer (eds), Leading Works In Criminal Law, Routledge, 2023, Chapter 6, forthcoming.
Thursday 25 May 2023: Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner, Risk Assessment and the preventive role of the criminal court. OUP, 2014, Chapter 6 (Preventive Justice).

Semester 2, 2022

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: Summary Offences Amendment (Decriminalisiation of Public Drunkenness) Act 2021. The briefing note is here.
Wednesday 24 August 2022: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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, 2022

Friday 4 March 2022: 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: Federico Picinali (2021) The Presumption of Innocence: A Deflationary Account 84(4) Modern Law Review 708-739
Friday 6 May 2022: Julia Tolmie, (2018) Coercive control: To criminalize or not to criminalize? 18(1) Criminology & Criminal Justice, 50-66
Friday 3 June 2022: Roseanna Sommers, (2020) Commonsense consent, 129(8) The Yale Law Journal , 2232- 2324