Feminism, Women Judges, Judicial Diversity and the High Court of Australia

Authors

  • Kcasey McLoughlin University of Newcastle, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.417

Keywords:

High Court of Australia, women judges, feminist judges, Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, judicial appointments

Abstract

This paper was originally presented at the workshop on Diversity and Legal Reasoning held at Queen Mary University of London on 23 November 2016, sponsored by the Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity and the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context. McLoughlin examines the political and judical discourse surrounding the arrival of women judges to the High Court of Australia and considers what this reveals about the nature of commitments to judicial diversity and prospects for feminist aspirations to the achivement of more far-reachig forms of diversity.

Author Biography

Kcasey McLoughlin, University of Newcastle, Australia

Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Newcastle, Australia

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Published

2017-09-23

How to Cite

McLoughlin, K. (2017). Feminism, Women Judges, Judicial Diversity and the High Court of Australia. Feminists@law, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.417

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Diversity and Legal Reasoning

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