Juries, justice and citizenship

该项目旨在揭示文化和法律程序的历史，在20世纪的大部分时间里，澳大利亚妇女被剥夺了担任陪审团成员的平等权利。该项目希望为今天仍然存在的结构性性别和种族不平等提供新的法律和历史理解。该项目将通过重建历史法庭程序的性别动态和记录妇女为克服排斥而进行的斗争，促进国内和国际知识的发展。它将恢复以前未审查的法律历史的一个方面，并提供一个重要的纠正目前的理解澳大利亚陪审团的代表性。

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.