Radavoi on ‘True Justice through Deep Listening on Country: Decolonising Legal Education in Australia'

Associate Professor Ciprian Radavoi of the University of Southern Queensland School of Law and Justice has co-authored a new article titled 'True Justice through Deep Listening on Country: Decolonising Legal Education in Australia'.  The article is written with Susan Bird and John Rawnsley, and appears in Volume 19(4) of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.  Here is the abstract:

"This article examines the impact of True Justice, a unique continuing legal education programme introduced in 2022 to increase cultural competency in legal practitioners. The programme achieves its purpose via the incorporation of First Nations principles and pedagogies, taking participants beyond the university classroom to learn deep listening on Country. The feedback from participants in the programme in April and May 2022 reveals the powerful experiences that are possible when the university classroom is abandoned in favour of place-based, trauma-informed learning. Incorporating not only First Nations perspectives but also pedagogies is particularly important in the legal profession, where, if these are ignored, practitioners and educators risk reproducing colonial models."