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Podgórecki Prize 2022 awarded to Melissa Crouch
No full textThe RCSL has awarded the Podgórecki Prize 2022 for outstanding scholarship of an early career socio‐legal scholar to Professor Melissa Crouch. Melissa Crouch is Professor of the School of Global and Public Law, University of New South Wales, Australia. Melissa is the author of The Constitution of Myanmar (2019) and Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the Courts in West Java (2014). She has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals including Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inq..
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Constitutional democracy in Indonesia /
No full text'Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia' discusses the ongoing debates over the meaning, implementation, and practice of constitutional democracy in Indonesia. Current legal issues are analysed in light of social, political, and economic reforms since the constitution's entering into force
The Promise and Paradox of Women Judges in the Judiciary in Indonesia
No full textStudies of Indonesian Law over the past two decades have been animated by one theme, law reform, and one question, how law reform is used as a tool for social change. The fall of Suharto in 1998 and the demand for democracy and the rule of law led to major efforts at constitutional and political reform, including significant court reform. Indonesia is the third largest democratic country, yet there has been no major study of women either in the legal profession or in the judiciary. Studies of the legal profession have focused on towering male figures and their contributions to advocacy and judicial practice, such as lawyer Adnan Buying Nasution or former Chief Justice Jimly Asshidiqqie. This does not explain the rise of figures likes Maria Farida Indri, Indonesia’s first and only female Constitutional Court judge, nor of the women judges in the Supreme Court, lower courts, advocacy and legal profession. This chapter interrogates to what extent we can speak of the feminisation of the judiciary in Indonesia, both in a thin sense of entrance to the profession and in a thick substantive sense of gender equality. The author considers the wider social and legal context of steps forward and backwards in terms of gender equality in Indonesia, and reviews existing legal scholarship to identify where and how women appear. In the Constitutional Court, the role of the only female judge, Ibu Maria Farida Indri is analysed, and the author argues that she was successful because she was considered to be a ‘model minority judge’. A brief outline of women judges in the Supreme Court and lower courts is also offered, acknowledging that women judges’ may not necessarily be any less corrupt than male judges, nor are they necessarily more sensitive to issues of gender equality. While some women judges like Maria are clearly trailblazers, the paradox is that other women who have entered the judiciary have perpetuated the system of corruption and patriarchy inherent in the courts. The chapter concludes by suggesting that any agenda for research on the feminisation of the legal profession in Indonesia needs to hold in tension both the promise and paradox of women in the judiciary
Postmetaphysical Thinking
No full textThe development of empirical research methods in both the social and the natural sciences has deeply impacted the self- conception of philosophy. Jürgen Habermas aims to strike a balance between two ways of understanding the relationship between philosophy and the sciences: between a conception of philosophy as an Archimedean point from which to view the human condition and a conception of philosophy as a mere artefact of Western culturally embedded assumptions. Against the first, Habermas aims to integrate the resources and methods of the social sciences into philosophy and to deny that philosophy can proceed outside of historical and social contexts. On his view, philosophical knowledge is produced communicatively, through socially embedded dialogue. Against the second, Habermas claims fundamental questions about the human condition cannot be answered by purely social or natural scientific approaches. His “postmetaphysical” methodology aims to integrate empirical resources into philosophy without losing sight of what is unique to philosophy: namely, its ability to step back from the empirical data in order to reconstruct in a systematic way underlying universal truths about us, our societies and our place in the world.This is the author's final version of a book chapter that was published in Jürgen Habermas: The Key Concepts.Yates, Melissa. "Post-Metaphysical Thinking," in Fultner, Barbara, ed., Jurgen Habermas: The Key Concepts. New York, NY: Routledge, 2011, 35-53
A Short Research Guide to Myanmar's Legal System
No full textResearchers of Myanmar's legal system have faced similar challenges to researchers of the country from other disciplines over the past few decades. Access to resources, particularly for foreign researchers, was severely limited prior to 2011. Due to heavy censorship and the overall decline in legal education and professionalism in Myanmar from the 1960s onwards, much of the research produced locally is of a low standard. Most of it follows rather narrow, well-trodden paths, and rarely raises critical questions or engages with the larger empirical problems facing legal institutions and legal professionals in Myanmar. Despite the challenging conditions, many legal sources do, however, exist, both in print and online. This chapter identifies some of those materials and is oriented towards primary sources, although it also includes some limited discussion of secondary sources by Burmese authors. The chapter is focused on laws and institutions introduced from the British colonial period onwards. It divides the materials thematically, and discusses what is available to researchers in English and Burmese languages
Dr. Melissa Ooten – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Melissa Ooten, Associate Director for the WILL Program, is the author of a new book, Race, Gender, and Film Censorship in Virginia, 1922-1965, published recently by Lexington Books. This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s and analyzes the project of state film censorship in Virginia
Melissa Marra "Force of Nature"
No full textMelissa Marra at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Fashion, Science, and Exploration, held on Tuesday, October 10, 2017.Melissa Marra is the associate curator of education and public programs at MFIT. She curated the exhibition Force of Nature and was a contributing author to the books Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch and Dance & Fashion
Indonesia's blasphemy law : bleak outlook for minority religions
Get PDFFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/One of the major challenges for any government is how to manage religious diversity, and how to provide for religious minorities in particular. In Indonesia there are six officially recognized religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Confucianism. In addition, a wide range of other indigenous religions and beliefs exist outside of these groups. Melissa Crouch, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School writes that "While Indonesia’s transition to democracy in 1998 brought about greater freedoms for all religious groups, there has also been a dramatic increase in convictions of 'deviant' groups for blasphemy.
Book Review: Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship by Noelle McAfee
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