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 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
Room 831

Summary Offences Amendment (Decriminalisiation of Public Drunkenness) Act 2021. The briefing note is here.

Wednesday 24 August 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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

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