CEVAW Analysis

Books, Articles and PhDs

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Restorative Justice or Colonial Compromise?

This paper examines the healing potential of community-led, culturally grounded programs as a response to family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

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Feminist Legal Theory

This chapter provides an introduction to feminist legal traditions in Australia for readers to understand how they are rigorous and politically original, and open to be joined, and developed.

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Still Falling Short: Aboriginal Children’s Rights and Victoria’s Child Protection System

Victoria’s child protection system continues to harm Aboriginal children and violate their rights, requiring a rights-based reimagining within current Treaty negotiations.

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CEVAW Conversations Podcasts

Episode 2
Does criminalisation prevent violence against women?

Professors Heather Douglas, Julia Tolmie and Kyllie Cripps bring legal expertise, research insights and lived experience to unpack the limits of the current justice system – and what we should be asking instead.

Videos

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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Charlotte (Charlie) Hock

Charlotte (Charlie) Hock interrogates the promises and pitfalls of justice in intimate partner violence cases, contrasting punitive carceral responses with restorative justice.

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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Asaf Lone

Asaf Lone investigates how families of disappeared persons in Kashmir and Punjab pursue justice amid state denial and delay.

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HDR Showcase 3 Minute Thesis - Allanah Colley

Allanah Colley analyses how specialist family violence courts in Victoria balance their therapeutic, problem-solving aims with the constraints of adversarial legal frameworks.

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