1st Edition
Law's Documents Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics
PART I: WHAT IS A DOCUMENT? 1. Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics (Katherine Biber, Trish Luker and Priya Vaughan) 2. In Wood and Word, or, A Gloss on Documents and Documentation in the Humanities (Bonnie Mak) PART II: AUTHORITY 3. When Records Speak we Listen: Conversations with the Archive (Jeanine Leane and Natalie Harkin) 4. Passport Struggles: Lawful Documents and the Politics of Recognition and Refusal (Sara Dehm) 5. What is a Bogus Document? Refugees, Race and Identity Documents under Australian Migration Law (Anthea Vogl) 6. The Historian as Document Producer: A Candid Reflection on the Production of Oral History Timed Summaries (Jesse Adams Stein) 7. Forty-nine most common phrases (Alison Whittaker) PART III: MATERIALITY 8. Law’s Signature Acts (Trish Luker) 9. Treaty Documents: Materialising International Legal Agreement (Jessie Hohmann) 10. Conjuring Documents: Informal Wills (Katherine Biber) 11. Powerful Documents from the Archive: Nyungar Letters and the Ancestors Words Project (Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett, Marion Kickett, Anthony Kickett, Jeannie Morrison) 12. Material Violence: Destruction, Mishaps, and Redaction of Stasi Photographs (Donna West Brett) PART IV: AESTHETICS 13. Artists and Legal Documents: Aesthetic, Witnessing, and Affective Power (Priya Vaughan) 14. The Rape Contract (Shevaun Wright) 15. The Aesthetic Archive: Appropriating Legal Documents in Visual Art (Carolyn McKay) 16. OA_RR: Documenting Sovereignty (Georgine Clarsen) 17. Historio-graphic: Knowledge Design Methods for Interpreting Documents (Anne Burdick, Jacquie Lorber-Kasunic, Kate Sweetapple) 18. Artistic License: Joan Kee interviews Carey Young
Biography
Katherine Biber is Professor of Law at UTS, Sydney. Trish Luker is Senior Lecturer in Law at UTS, Sydney.
