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New Editor

2025-01-28

The editorial team are very pleased to welcome new editor Professor Rowena Maguire.

Professor Maguire is Director of the QUT Centre for Justice at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), Brisbane Australia.  

Rowena is an active research leader and interdisciplinary scholar who undertakes research in collaboration with industry, community, and interdisciplinary university partners. She enjoys work that is connected to ground, and which has the potential to influence change. Rowena also coordinates and teaches environmental law and supervisors higher degree research students working on projects on climate and disaster governance, circular economy and waste, human rights and the environment and feminist approaches to environmental governance.    

Welcome Rowena!

John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Avi Brisman (Book Editor); Marília de Nardin Budó (Book Editor), and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)

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Current Issue : Vol. 13 No. 4 (2024)

Published: 2024-12-02

Guest Editorial

  • Successful Strategies to Improve Access to Justice for Women Who Kill Their Abusers

    Page numbers:i-iv
    Authors:Danielle Tyson, Bronwyn Naylor, Stella Tarrant

Special Issue: Successful Strategies to Improve Access to Justice

  • Fighting for Justice for Women who Kill Abusive Partners

    Page numbers:1-13
    Authors:Harriet Wistrich, Pragna Patel

  • The Struggle for Justice for Battered Women: Still a Colossal Work in Progress, as Exemplified by Helen Naslund’s Case

    Page numbers:14-27
    Authors:Elizabeth Sheehy, Kim Pate, Helen Naslund , Matthew Behrens , Mona Duckett, Jana G. Pruden

  • Promoting Aboriginal Women’s Human Rights – Understanding When not to Prosecute Aboriginal Women

    Page numbers:28-43
    Authors:Stella Tarrant , Hannah McGlade , Carol Bahemia

The Journal invites 6-8000 word original submissions. Authors are asked to register, read the author guidelines, and agree to the ethics statement before submission. Peer review is usually 4-6 weeks.

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Chief Editors:

Professor John Scott, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia and Dr David Rodríguez Goyes, University of Oslo, Norway

Editor:

Professor Rowena Maguire, Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

Book Reivew Editors: Professor Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, United States and Professor Marília de Nardin Budó, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil

Journal Manager: Tracy Creagh, Office for Scholarly Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia