Papers by Stuart Russell
Zan Times , 2024
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Eurasian Advocacy / Евразийская адвокатура, 2024
Stuart Russell is co-chair of the Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers of the International... more Stuart Russell is co-chair of the Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers of the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) who has closely monitored attacks on lawyers around the world for the past a decade. Prior to retirement he was a human rights lawyer in Canada in the 1980s, as well as a senior lecturer in the School of Law at Macquarie University in Sydney and an administrative judge for refugee appeals in Australia in the 1990s. He has conducted research, given lectures on and published widely on attacks against lawyers around the world, as well as theoretical criminology, legal theory and human rights. He is recognized as a leading international authority on the persecution of lawyers. He holds degrees in Arts, Civil Law and Common Law from McGill University in Montréal (BA, BCL, LLB) as well as a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa (LLM). Interview in English and in Russian.
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(2016) 41(3) AltLJ 216
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Since the early 1990s, the ``new directions'' in Critical Criminology have consciously excluded M... more Since the early 1990s, the ``new directions'' in Critical Criminology have consciously excluded Marxism as being out-dated. This article critically assesses the fundamental theoretical shifts within critical criminology. It argues that Marxism remains as relevant as ever for analysing crime, criminal justice, and the role of the state. There is a great need for critical criminologists to redirect their attention back to Marxist theory by developing and extending its tools of critical theoretical analysis.
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Postmodernism has recently washed up on the shores of criminology, and is the subject of consider... more Postmodernism has recently washed up on the shores of criminology, and is the subject of considerable theoretical debate. This essay critically assesses some of the most trenchant and relevant components of the theoretical bases for postmodernism, and sketches out their applicability to criminology. It argues that postmodernism can be of little assistance to intellectuals committed to critique and fundamental social change. While postmodernists look down so severely at ‘old-fashioned’ ‘meta-narratives’ like Marxism, it is now they who are falling off the contemporary agenda, because they are dated and theoretically flawed. My main argument is that the theoretical imporverishment of postmodernism creates an obstacle to the development of a truly critical criminology. One of the current challenges of critical criminology is to amplify the critique of postmodern criminology and to reorient the trajectory of critical criminology away from the postmodern detour. The essay explores the historical context of the emergence of postmodernism, the modernist/ postmodernist era, deconstructionism, ‘meta-narratives’, idealism, form and content, fragmentation/pluralism/relativism, absence of progressive praxis, conservatism and Marxism.
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(1998) 23(3) Alternative Law Journal 148
Book review of Hate Crime in Australia, Edited by Chris Cunneen,
David Fraser and Stephen Tomsen... more Book review of Hate Crime in Australia, Edited by Chris Cunneen,
David Fraser and Stephen Tomsen; Hawkins Press, 1997; 272 pp
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Alternative Law Journal , 1997
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Alternative Law Journal vol. 20:2 p. 96-97, 1996
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Alternative Law Journal volume 19:3, pp 118-121, 1994
The Sydney 2000 Olympics as a pretext for political repression
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Master of Law (LL.M.) thesis, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, 1990
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McGill Law Journal, 1981
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Conference Presentations by Stuart Russell
Journée de l'avocat en danger/Day of the Endangered Lawyer, Paris, le 24 janvier, 2017, Maison du... more Journée de l'avocat en danger/Day of the Endangered Lawyer, Paris, le 24 janvier, 2017, Maison du Barreau de Paris. Conférence: "Situation des avocats en Chine." Stuart RUSSELL, Comité de surveillance des attaques contre les avocats, International Association of People's Lawyers. Also published on the blog on attacks against lawyers around the world: https://defendlawyers.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/day-of-the-endangered-lawyerchina-table-ronde-limpact-de-la-mobilisation-internationale-en-faveur-des-avocats-menaces-paris-le-24-janvier-2017/
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https://zantimes.com/2024/09/10/encounters-with-afghan-refugees-workers-lawyers-and-judges/
https://zantimes.com/fa/2024/09/10/afghan-immigrants-lawyers-prosecutors-and-judges/ (FARSI/DARI)
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David Fraser and Stephen Tomsen; Hawkins Press, 1997; 272 pp
Conference Presentations by Stuart Russell
https://zantimes.com/2024/09/10/encounters-with-afghan-refugees-workers-lawyers-and-judges/
https://zantimes.com/fa/2024/09/10/afghan-immigrants-lawyers-prosecutors-and-judges/ (FARSI/DARI)
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David Fraser and Stephen Tomsen; Hawkins Press, 1997; 272 pp
a day goes by that lawyers are not attacked somewhere. We use a broad
definition of attacks: any deliberate action against the lawyer which is intended
to or is likely to prevent the lawyer from carrying out his or her legal duties.
The numbers are staggering. In the past decades thousands have lost their lives.
Many more are disappeared, harassed, threatened, detained or charged without
cause, disciplined in politically motivated professional proceedings, or dealt
with in a variety of other ways such as SLAPP actions at law, including
defamation actions which in many countries may result in a prison sentence.
Although understandably the contemporary attacks on journalists, which also
appear to be increasing, gain much media attention, attacks on lawyers seem
not to attract the same amount of publicity. But in research we have done in the
Philippines, it appears that lawyers can be as much at risk of extra judicial
killing/disappearance as journalists, and perhaps more at risk of at least some
other kinds of attacks. Within the category of lawyer we include judges,
prosecutors, public and private advocates, law students and paralegals. We
have not used the criteria of being a human rights defender for several reasons.
First, it is difficult to determine why a lawyer has been attacked. It may have
been for their work in human rights defending, but it may be for some other
reason. Second, many lawyers are involved in the defence of human rights
primarily, but others are only occasionally involved in human rights matters.
Both should be of concern to us. Indeed, even those lawyers who do not do
human rights work are included in our work because all members of the legal
profession play a role in protecting us in different ways, essentially by
implementing the rule of law. In a sense then, an injury to one is an injury to
the profession, to the institutions of the law and to all of us. Attacks on lawyers
occur across the globe and are not limited to the 9th Annual International
Conference on Sociology, 4-7 May 2015, Athens, Greece: Abstract Book 27
less economically developed world as might appear from media accounts.
Perpetrators appear to be largely state forces, but paramilitary, private army
forces, and hired gunmen are also involved. Some attacks are politically
motivated while others, we believe a minority, are privately motivated.
Paper presented to the 9th Annual International Conference on Sociology, 4-7 May 2015, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).
Featuring:
David A. Schwartz, Chair, International Law Section,, American Bar Association, New York, NY
Professor Stuart Russell, Co-Chair, Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers; International Association of People’s Lawyers
Mary L. Smith, President, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL
Professor Margaret L. Satterthwaite, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges & Lawyers, New York, NY & Geneva, Swi
Hon. Delissa A. Ridgway, U.S. Court of International Trade, New York, NY
Speakers:
- Gregory Stanton, Founder of Genocide Watch
- Derakhshan Qurban-Ali, External Relations Manager at Canadian Hazara Humanitarian Services
- Halima Bahman, Survivor of the 1998 massacre in Mazar-i-Sharif, cofounder of the Hazara Women Organization
- Stuart Russell, Former Australian judge who oversaw many Hazara refugee hearings following the 1998 massacre
Moderated by Frédéric Mégret
Sponsored by the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
#HumanRights abuses are happening every day in #Turkey.
Here are a few of those who speak up against these violations:
Stuart Russell, as a former judge and active human rights activist, defends the rights of lawyers around the world.
He encourages everyone to #SpeakUpForHumanRights.
If you are victim of or witness to torture, enforced disappearance, abduction in Turkey, share your story with us.
Speak up! Make your voice heard!
So we can raise awareness about these abuses, help end them.