The Archival Turn in Law: The papers of Lindy Chamberlain in the National Library of Australia

Biber, K

The Archival Turn in Law: The papers of Lindy Chamberlain in the National Library of Australia

Biber, K

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Publisher:: Sydney Law School
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: The Sydney Law Review, 2017, 39 (3), pp. 277 - 301
Issue Date:: 2017-10-24

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dc.contributor.author	Biber, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2189-3157	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-10-24	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Sydney Law Review, 2017, 39 (3), pp. 277 - 301	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0082-0512	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/119681
dc.description.abstract	Lindy Chamberlain is the victim of Australia’s most notorious miscarriage of justice; in 1982 she was wrongly convicted of the murder of her baby daughter, Azaria. In the decades following her exoneration, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is now known, came to an arrangement with the National Library of Australia to care for the papers she had accumulated as a result of her daughter’s death and the legal processes that followed. This article examines the ‘Chamberlain Papers’ through the lens of materiality and scholarship associated with the ‘archival turn’ in the humanities, social sciences and information sciences. This approach affords an understanding of documents as objects, artefacts and technologies. Working materially with documents provides new opportunities for legal scholars to understand files, papers, recordkeeping and bureaucracy, and gives legal significance to papers created outside the law.	en_US
dc.publisher	Sydney Law School	en_US
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dc.title	The Archival Turn in Law: The papers of Lindy Chamberlain in the National Library of Australia	en_US
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Abstract:

Lindy Chamberlain is the victim of Australia’s most notorious miscarriage of justice; in 1982 she was wrongly convicted of the murder of her baby daughter, Azaria. In the decades following her exoneration, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, as she is now known, came to an arrangement with the National Library of Australia to care for the papers she had accumulated as a result of her daughter’s death and the legal processes that followed. This article examines the ‘Chamberlain Papers’ through the lens of materiality and scholarship associated with the ‘archival turn’ in the humanities, social sciences and information sciences. This approach affords an understanding of documents as objects, artefacts and technologies. Working materially with documents provides new opportunities for legal scholars to understand files, papers, recordkeeping and bureaucracy, and gives legal significance to papers created outside the law.

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