Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens

Nicole Watson is a Mununjali and Birri Gubba woman from south-east Queensland. She is Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.Heather Douglas, whose heritage is Scottish and Irish, is Professor of Law at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• 1. Introduction: Decolonising the Law School Heather Douglas and Nicole Watson Part One: Recognising that Terra Nullius Never Left, and Reimagining Law and Legal Education to Achieve our Own Ends 2. Indigenous Lawyering: Colonial Legal Formations and Decolonial Manoeuvres Osca Monaghan 3. Evidence Given by Eddie Cubillo to the Yoorrook Justice Commission Eddie Cubillo and Jaynaya Dwyer 4. The Shackles of Terra Nullius in Child Protection ‘Reforms’ Terri Libesman, Paul Gray and Kirsten Gray 5. ‘Who Built this Fence?’ Regenerating Faculty Landscapes for Lasting Educational Reform Simon Young and Kirstie Smith 6. Challenges and Strategies for Incorporating Indigenous Laws and Histories Across Legal Education Curriculum Annette Gainsford, Alison Gerard and Emma Colvin Part Two: Changing Thinking through Theory 7. Storytelling – The Power of First Nations Jurisprudence Larissa Behrendt 8. Genre Outlaw: Ruby Langford Ginibi Suvendrini Perera 9. Relationality as Indigenous Teaching Praxis in Legal Education Marcelle Burns 10. Decolonising the Common Law: Beyond Colonial Thinking Pekeri Ruska and Jennifer Nielsen 11. Legal Education and First Nations Teaching and Learning Methodologies: Storytelling/Yarning, Deep Listening, and Lived Experience Narelle Bedford Part Three: Applying an Indigenous Lens to Law School Curricula 12. Teaching Students to Appreciate the Significance of the Plaintiff’s Aboriginality in Intentional Torts Cases Nicole Watson 13. Reflecting on the ‘General Part’ When There is Systemic Injustice: Do we Inadvertently Facilitate Overcriminalisation of First Peoples in Australia? Mary Spiers Williams 14. What’s Aristotle’s Totem Anyway? Indigenous Systems of Law and Governance and the Australian Public Law Curriculum Aurora Milroy and Karinda Burns 15. Unsettling Australian Clinical Legal Education Amanda Porter and Eddie Cubillo 16. Native Title: Steps Toward a Decolonised Law Curriculum Lee Godden