« Happiness away from settlers: Amoneeta Beckstein (Aniyunwiya), ‘Indigenous American Happiness’, in H. Selin, G. Davey (eds), Happiness Across Cultures, Springer, 2024, pp. 117-134
The public-provate partnership of settler violence: Jonathan Obert, ‘State-Building, Settler Colonialism, and Policing the Nineteenth-Century American West’, in James Campbell, Vivien Miller (eds), The Routledge History of Crime in America, Routledge, 2024 »

Legal clinical education and settler colonialism: Amanda Porter, Eddie Cubillo, ‘Unsettling Australian Clinical Legal Education’, in Nicole Watson, Heather Douglas (eds), Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens: Decolonising the Law School, Routledge, 2024

06Dec24

Abstract: This chapter highlights the epistemic violence in Australian clinical legal education. Perhaps because clinical legal education is viewed as indelibly progressive, it has long escaped the attention of sustained decolonial analysis. This chapter addresses this void by providing four critiques of clinical legal education: its failure to acknowledge the lingering effects of settler colonialism, its omission to consider racism, intellectual nullius (the phenomena of not engaging with Indigenous knowledges and source material) and psychological nullius (referring to Indigenous peoples’ factual and ideological exclusion from Australian public institutions). The authors also share their experiences of teaching an Indigenous Law and Advocacy Clinic that centred Aboriginal sovereignty, advocacy and storytelling.


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