Law, Women Judges and the Gender Order: Lessons from the High Court of Australia

ISBN-13: 9780367230357 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

Kcasey McLoughlin

Opis

This book seeks to understand how women judges are situated as legal knowers on the High Court of Australia by asking whether a near-equal gender balance on the High Court has disrupted the Court’s historically masculinist gender regime.

Spis treści

1: The masculinist foundations of Australia’s legal and Constitutional framework.  2: Jobs for the Girls: Judicial Appointments to the High Court of Australia and the Politics of Merit.  3: Sworn To Be: Gender, Difference and Judicial Swearing-in Speech.   4: A Judgment of One’s Own? Staking a Claim to Judicial Authority.  5: PGA v The Queen and the Judicial Imagination.  6: Gendered Harms in Monis v The Queen.  7: The Art of Looking Back: The Farewell Ritual and the Construction of Judicial Legacies.  8: The High Court Today: Negotiating Progress, Privilege and Hegemonic Masculinity.

O autorze

Kcasey McLoughlin is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Law School, Australia.