Law, Lawyers and Justice

Through Australian Lenses

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Edited by Kim D. Weinert, Karen Crawley and Kieran Tranter

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Australia

Keywords

Australia, justice, representation

Publishing date

2021

Publisher

Routledge

1st publishing

2020

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 308 pages
6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches (17 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-23723-7

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Book Presentation:
This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.

Australian popular culture has created a lasting legacy – for good or bad – of representations of law, lawyers and justice ‘down under’. Within films and television of striking landscapes, peopled with heroes, antiheroes, survivors and jokers, there is a fixation on law, conflicts between legal orders, brutal violence and survival. Deeply compromised by the ongoing violence against the lives and laws of First Nation Australians, Australian film and television has sharply illuminated what it means to live with a ‘rule of law’ that rules with a legacy, and a reality, of deep injustice. This book is the first to bring together scholars to reflect on, and critically engage with, the representations and global implications of law, lawyers and justice captured through the lenses of Australian film, television and social media.

Exploring how distinctively Australian lenses capture uniquely Australian images and narratives, the book nevertheless engages these in order to provide broader insights into the contemporary translations and transmogrifications of law and justice.

About the authors:
Kim D. Weinert is a PhD candidate at Griffith Law School, Griffith University.Karen Crawley is a senior lecturer at Griffith Law School, Griffith University.Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology.

See the publisher website: Routledge