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ItemNo Preview AvailableProsecuting and Partnering for Social Change: Law, Social Movements and Australia's Mandatory Detention for Refugees and Asylum SeekersBalint, J ; Sarat, A (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-06-10)This chapter discusses the use of law and legal institutions by the emerging social movement seeking to end Australia’s policy of mandatory detention for refugees and asylum seekers. Through an examination of Australian inquiries and court cases alongside social campaigns, it considers the ability of legal institutional responses to identify the harms, in particular state and institutional responsibility, and the subsequent impact of these legal processes in inhibiting and promoting social and structural change. It shows how social movements are harnessing law and creating new legal and civic spaces in which to contest Australia’s refugee and asylum seeker regime.
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ItemNo Preview Available"Post-conflict" reconstruction, the crimes of the powerful and transitional justiceBalint, J ; Lasslett, K ; Macdonald, K (Pluto Journals, 2017-03-01)Periods of armed conflict can generate significant ruptures in the political, economic, cultural and legal life of affected regions. As societies gradually transition from a state of war to a state of peace--conditions that are often unstable and transitory --civil society, governments and legal authorities are frequently weakened by internal divisions, resource gaps, organizational fragility and widespread perceptions of illegitimacy. Furthermore, the immediate demands of the transitional process (including efforts to promote transitional justice) can channel finite civil society resources into peacemaking and reconciliation initiatives, drawing attention away--whether inadvertently or by design--from state and corporate accountability.
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ItemThe “Mau Mau” Legal Hearings and Recognizing the Crimes of the British Colonial State: A Limited Constitutive MomentBALINT, J (University of Toronto Law School, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMinutes of Evidence: Raising Awareness of Structural Injustice and JusticeBalint, J ; Evans, J ; Mcmillan, NC (James Cook University, 2012)
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ItemThe Minutes of Evidence Project: Creating Collaborative Fields of Engagement with the Past and Present’EVANS, J ; McMillan, N ; Nanni, G ; Balint, J ; Reynolds-Diarra, M ; Boucher, L ; Russell, L (ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc., 2015)