The first article of the AFLJ 2025 Special Issue is online now! Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy's provocative, poignant, and hugely important article is available here:
✨ Read the new paper from Maksim Lavrik, in which the author argues that the subordination of environmental protection to the necessities of economic development has similarities with the long history of women’s oppression. Interesting and timely.
🌻Read Gozde Turan's new article, 'Sexual and Gender Based Violence Only for the ‘Others’? A fantastic contribution to the discourse around sexual and gender-based crimes in conflict.
The AFLJ is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer to assist with its copyediting, outreach and engagement activities! Are you a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law? This position could be perfect for you! drive.google.com/file/d/16z3u...
Celebrate the publication of Ann Genovese’s ‘Feminist Jurisography’ with this brilliant conversation between author and readers. Follow the conversation, with Ann Genovese, Ann Curthoys, Alecia Simmonds, and Angela Kintominas.
Keen to publish in the AFLJ? We publish online year-round, but if you’re interesting in publishing in our 2025 General Issue, submit by 30 June. Our amazing Editors can’t wait to work with you! (Or contact us: [email protected])
🚨New article! Our latest is a phenomenal paper by Ben Golder, which situates the jurisprudential practice of the Feminist Judgments Projects within a wider category of ‘subjunctive jurisprudence' - 10/10, highly recommend!
🚨New article! Sean Mulcahy and Kate Seear draw on the feminist legal scholarship of Judith Butler and Ratna Kapur to explore who is considered 'living' in the context of drug law and policy, critical drug scholarship, and human rights. Sensitive and important.
Call for papers! We are currently accepting submissions to our 2025 General Issue. If you have a paper that takes a feminist approach to law and justice (broadly conceived), submit online by 30 May 2025, or contact us for more details.
Do you have an event, workshop, conference, or idea that would make a great Special Issue for the AFLJ? We’d love to read your proposals for 2026! Click the link below to submit and for more details on issue requirements, dates, and deadlines, or contact us.
‼️ New from Inês Espinhaço Gomes, who analyses the case of athlete Caster Semenya before the European Court of Human Rights, through the lenses of queer legal theory and intersectional feminism. A fantastic - and important - read!
In our first ever #praxis piece, Adrian Howe revisits the traumatic process of writing her new book, ‘Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare’. This one is a cracker - read here 👇🏼☄️
Do you have an event, workshop, conference, or idea that would make a great Special Issue for the AFLJ? We’d love to read your proposals for 2026! Click the link below to submit and for more details on issue requirements, dates, and deadlines, or contact us.
We offer a supportive and collegial editorial process to support emerging feminist scholars, practitioners and advocates enter the world of scholarly publishing.
If you have, or know of, a brilliant Honours project, we’d love to hear from you! For more: australianfeministlawjour [email protected]
🚨 New article! In the latest from the AFLJ, Amanda Alexander interrogates law and regulatory techniques in flying trapeze - are recreational flyers, usually women, really as free as they seem? Read it here 👇🏼
🚨In our latest article, author Lars van der Ent examines the extent to which the ICC can protect queer people, arguing that the Rome Statute is limited in its capacity to do justice for queer people. Read it here!
In our most recent article, @suzanarahde.bsky.social takes a Queer Marxist lens to examine gender pricing as a site of regulation of gendered identities 🌟 A fantastic read! Access it here:
First article alert! 🚨 Issue 50(2) kicks off with a bang as Genevieve Couvret considers the NSW model of affirmative consent in the context of feminist theory, with particular focus on the work of Catharine MacKinnon.
Interested in what our recently completed Special Issue, 'Romancing the Tomes 2.0: Feminism, Law and Popular Culture' offers? Read the introduction from the editors here:
The final article in our most recent Special Issue is now online in advance! Here, Sanam Amin argues that recognition of coercive control as an aspect of domestic violence is an example of how feminism, law and popular culture are related. Important and timely.
In this fascinating new article, Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk explore the ‘progressive, subversive and critical’ potential of the horror genre, and what it means for the law. Read in full -
In the latest article for the AFLJ’s current Special Issue, authors of the graphic novel ‘Once Upon a Time in Australia’ Sarouche Razi, Anne Macduff, and Kirsten Hoffman reflect and engage in a process they term ‘critical performative iterations’ - read here!
Calling all legal theorists! The AFLJ is extending the call for papers deadline for its next General Issue. Working on something engaging with critical feminist approaches to law and justice? Submit by 28 June 2024!
