Beyond the pale: Sovereignty, Law and Indigenous peoples

该项目有助于理解法律和实践中的不平等现象。 它扩展了主权的殖民层面的知识，展示了如何将土著人民排除在国际法和国内法的正常运作之外，帮助建立和改变主权，并在定居者社会中产生种族化的身份。 这项研究提供了一个新的，更全面的概念框架，分析边疆的做法，改善最近围绕这一历史编纂的辩论的两极分化的影响。 由于在反恐战争中，在某些情况下又出现了法律被暂停适用的情况，因此，对法治的长处和局限性进行调查是适时和及时的。

The project contributes to understanding inequality in law and practice. It expands knowledge of the colonial dimensions of sovereignty, demonstrating how excluding Indigenous peoples from the ordinary operations of both international and domestic law helped constitute and transform sovereignty and produce racialised identities in settler societies. The research provides a new, more comprehensive conceptual framework for analysing frontier practices, ameliorating the polarising effects of recent debates surrounding this historiography. As the war on terrorism has again seen the suspension of the law in certain circumstances, investigations into the strengths and limits of the rule of law are opportune and timely.