ABSTRACT
This chapter critically engages with aspirations for the decolonisation of legal education and practice. The tensions inherent in legal practice for Indigenous lawyers with decolonial ambitions are mapped, with the author reflecting on their own experiences of working as a criminal defence lawyer in an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation. The chapter also interrogates current forms of Indigenous political agitation, particularly rights- and recognition-based approaches and Indigenous nation-building endeavours. Ultimately, the chapter argues for a radical reimagining of the systems that organise our relations, entailing the dismantling of colonial structures at every level of society. It calls for coalition building and solidarity across struggles against imperialism, colonialism and capitalism as necessary steps toward collective liberation.
