Imagining Law

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Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam

edited by Dale Stephens and Paul Babie


FREE | 2016 | Ebook (PDF) |978-1-925261-31-8| 332 pp

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    1. Introduction: Seeing Further over the Horizon — A World of Limitless Possibilities
    Dale Stephens and Paul Babie
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    2. Energy and Law — Searching for New Directions
    Adrian Bradbrook
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    3. The Limited Necessity of Resort to Force
    Mary Ellen O'Connell
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    4. Human Rights Obligations as a Collateral Limit on the Powers of the Security Council
    Matthew Stubbs
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    5. Prosecuting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Crimes: How Far Have We Progressed and Where Do We Go from Here?
    Michelle Jarvis
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    6. The Construction of Knowledge about Women, War and Access to Justice
    Ustinia Dolgopol
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    7. Laws, UFOs and UAVs: Feminist Encounters with the Law of Armed Conflict
    Gina Heathcote
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    8. An Alien's Review of Women and Armed Conflict
    Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin
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    9. The Law of Armed Conflict and the Operational Relevance of Gender: The Australian Defence Force's Implementation of the Australian National Action Plan
    Jody Prescott
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    10. Women's Role in Reconstituting the Post-Conflict State
    Laura Grenfell
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    11. Law under the Influence of Religion: The Limiting of Birth and Death Decisions
    Ngaire Naffine
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    12. Given the Freedom to Ask Anything, What Questions Ought the International Legal Scholar Explore? Using Gardam's 'Alien' to Examine this Question
    Rebecca LaForgia
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    13. The Alien Within
    Margaret Davies
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By any measure, Judith Gardam has accomplished much in her professional life and is rightly acknowledged by scholars throughout the world as an expert in her many fields of diverse interest — including international law, energy law and feminist theory. This book celebrates her academic life and work with twelve essays from leading scholars in Gardam’s fields of expertise.

‘It has been fifty‑five years since astronaut Yuri Gagarin passed over Perth in his Vostok spacecraft, sparking the imagination of a young woman who at that moment felt part of something much bigger than herself. Judith deploys an idea of “otherness” in her work, drawing upon this earliest experience to promote in law the idea of global interconnectedness, which Gagarin saw physically when he peered through the window of his tiny spacecraft. As Gagarin looked down and saw further over the horizon of the Earth than any person ever had, Judith was looking back up into that sameAprilnight sky. She saw then, and continues to see, further over the horizon of human potential than most other people. Where others see only limits in humanity, she saw, and sees, unlimited possibility.’

From the 'Introduction' by Dale Stephens and Paul Babie