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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Slowing down. Peering in.

Legislative practices: On Human Rights, Jurimorphs and the Fragile Ontology of Law

Advocacy practices: On Legal Strategies, Habits and the Action of Anticipation

Negotiation practices: On Addiction Veridiction and the Gendering of Agency in Family Violence and Child Protection Cases

Sentencing practices: On Assembling ‘Alcohol Effects’ and the ‘Aboriginal Community’ in Criminal Law

Ethical practices: On Rules, Values and Ethics as a ‘Matter of Concern’

Conclusion: Making Just Habits. A Blueprint for Onto-advocacy

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About the Author

Kate Seear is an Associate Professor in Law at Monash University, Australia. She is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (2016–2019), the Academic Director of the Springvale Monash Legal Service, an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Social Studies of Addiction Concepts research programme at the National Drug Research Institute in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University and a practising lawyer. She is the author of Making Disease, Making Citizens: The Politics of Hepatitis C (with Suzanne Fraser) and The Makings of a Modern Epidemic: Endometriosis, Gender and Politics, and co-editor of the collection Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society (with Claire Spivakovsky and Adrian Carter).

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