Reading Group

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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 (Decriminalisation 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