Juries Justice and Citizenship: Historicising Women's Inequality

Funding: 2019: $43,198
2020: $42,443
2021: $50,419

Project Member(s): Simmonds, A., Kirkby, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2019

Summary: Juries, justice and citizenship. This project aims to expose the history of cultural and legal processes that for most of the twentieth century denied enfranchised Australian women the equal right to sit on juries. The project expects to provide new legal and historical understandings of structural gender and racial inequalities that persist today. The project will advance national and international knowledge by reconstructing the gender dynamics of historical court processes and documenting women’s struggles to overcome their exclusion. It will recover a previously unexamined aspect of legal history, and provide an important corrective to current understandings of the representativeness of Australian juries.

FOR Codes: Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History, Law and Society, Understanding Australia's Past, Australian history , Law and society and socio-legal research, Understanding Australia¿¿¿s past

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.