Indigenous Australians, social justice and legal reform : honouring Elliott Johnston / editors Hossein Esmaeili, Gus Worby, Simone Ulalka Tur.

Annandale, N.S.W. : The Federation Press, 2016.

1st edition

87353

Johnston, Elliott.

Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cases.

Social justice -- Australia.

Law reform -- Australia.

Festschriften -- Australia.

1. A powerful example: introducing The Elliott Johnston Lectures

2. 1988: The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody: lessons for Wik

3. 1999: Back to the future: Aboriginal imprisonment rates and other experiences

4. 2000: A tragedy of dumb politics: does mandatory sentencing cause fundamental damage to the legal system?

5. 2001: Cultural protection in frontier Australia

6. 2002: Power from the people: a community- based approach to indigenous self-determination

7. 2003: From a hard place: negotiating a softer terrain

8. 2005: The effect of early Australian laws on Aboriginal People: a personal perspective

9. 2006: From rhetoric to reconciliation: addressing the challenge of equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in criminal justice processes

10. 2007: Human rights and Indigenous reconciliation in Australia

11. 2008: Land rights, native title and the 'limits' of recognition: getting the balance right?

12. 2009: Indigenous Australians and the law post apology: lessons learned from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

13. 2010: The taking of land without consent: the dispossession of Aboriginal land in South Australia

14. 2011: Engagement to support indigenous self-determination

15. 2012: Elliott Johnston, social values and justice

16. 2013: Putting meat on the bones of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

17. 2014: Holding on to the 'hope of law'

18. 2015: Why first laws must be in.

"Twenty-five years after Elliott Johnston's thorough and prescient Report on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, juvenile justice, freedom of speech, racial discrimination, human rights and a referendum on constitutional 'recognition' of Indigenous Australians remain subjects of contestation, national debate and international scrutiny. In this collection, 17 distinguished Indigenous and non-Indigenous jurists, scholars and community leaders show common cause with Johnston. They pursue better ways of understanding social values, justice and equality expressed through issues of native title, incarceration rates, cultural protection, self-determination and rights of Indigenous peoples. They look to the law as a site of hope and an instrument of public education and principled change"-- Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781760020613

xx, 315 pages ; 24 cm