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• Title:[Indigenous legal relations in Australia]
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander legal relations / Larissa Behrendt, Chris Cunneen, Terri Libesman, Nicole Watson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Behrendt, Larissa, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cunneen, Chris, 1953- author.
  Libesman, Terry, author.
  Watson, Nicole, author.
  
• Published/Created:Victoria, Australia : Oxford University Press, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KU519.I64 B44 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Aboriginal Australians--Legal status, laws, etc.
  Torres Strait Islanders--Legal status, laws, etc.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xxi, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"[This book] considers the contact of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders with Anglo-Australian law, and deals primarily with the problems the imposed law has had in its relationship with Indigenous people in Australia. The book...covers key issues relating to sovereignty, jurisdiction and territorial acquisition; family law and child protection; criminal law, policing and sentencing; land rights and native title; cultural heritage, heritage protection and intellectual property; anti-discrimination law; international human rights law; constitutional law; social justice, self-determination and treaty issues."-- Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:First published 2009 under the title "Indigenous legal relations in Australia", Oxford University Press.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-361) and index.
  
• ISBN:0190310030 paperback
  9780190310035 paperback
  
• Contents:Preface
  Dispossesion and colonisation / Terri Libesman
  Warfare to welfare : genocide to racial discrimination / Terri Libesman
  Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children's welfare / Terri Libesman
  Juvenile justice / Chris Cunneen
  Criminalisation and policing in indigenous communities / Chris Cunneen
  Courts, sentencing and punishment / Chris Cunneen
  Indigenous women and criminal justice / Chris Cunneen
  Land rights / Nicole Watson
  Native title / Asmi Wood
  Maintain, control, support, protect and develop cultural heritage / Robynne Quiggin
  Racial discrimination and the law / Nicole Watson
  The new paternalism / Larissa Behrendt
  A framework of self-determination / Larrisa Behrendt
  Unfinished business / Larissa Behrendt.