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Legal theory

Legal Theory
Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley FAAL
Emeritus Professor
Research interests:
Corporations & Financial Markets Law, Law and Humanities
Emeritus Professor Peter Cane FBA, FASSA, FAAL
Emeritus Professor
Research interests:
Law of Obligations, Philosophies of Law, Administrative law, Torts, Concepts of responsibility
Associate Professor Moeen Cheema
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, State Fragility and Armed Conflicts, Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Rule of Law Reform, Philosophies of Law, Rule of Law Theory, Islamic criminal laws, Criminal Justice, Law and Society in South Asia, Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, Governance and Development
Professor Anthony Connolly
Professor
Research interests:
Legal Philosophy, Public law, Indigenous rights, Law and Cultural Difference, Constitutional Law and Theory, Indigenous peoples and the law, legal theory, Indigenous peoples and the law
Mr Gareth Downing
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
law and economics, Regulatory theory and practice, Comparative Law
Gemmo Fernandez
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Public International Law, State Responsibility, Law of Treaties, Rule of Law, Human rights, Freedom of expression, Space law
Dr Jelena Gligorijevic
Lecturer
Research interests:
Privacy, Freedom of expression, Defamation, Analytic philosophy, Proportionality, Parliamentary privilege, Rule of Law
Emma Graham
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Feminist Legal Theory, Labour Law, Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy
Honorary Professor Kevin Jon Heller
Honorary Professor
Research interests:
International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Use of force, Methodology of Public International Law, Comparative criminal law
Dr Darryn Jensen
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Trusts, Civil Remedies, Private Law Theory, Adjudication Theory
Shay Keinan
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Citizenship
Mr Joseph Lee
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Corporate law, Regulation of Corporate Responsibility, Medical Negligence, Asian Law, National security
Dr Anne Macduff
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Critical legal theory, Family law, Problem Based Learning, Wellbeing, Citizenship, Law and Cultural Difference, Gender, feminism, Feminist Legal Theory
Professor Paul Maharg FRSA, NTF, PFHEA
Honorary Professor
Research interests:
Digital Learning, Experiential Learning, Curriculum Design, Problem Based Learning, Legal Identity, Law and Humanities, Professional Identity Formation
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Professor Desmond Manderson FAAL, FASSA, FRSC
Professor
Research interests:
Law and Humanities, Rule of Law Theory, Art, Literature and Law, Drug policy and drug history, Law and Social Justice
Professor Leighton McDonald
Professor
Research interests:
Administrative law, legal theory
Associate Professor Wayne Morgan
Associate Professor
Research interests:
General Human Rights Law and Policy, Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy, Property Law, Sexuality, International trade, Critical legal theory, Gender, feminism, Feminist Legal Theory
Associate Professor Joshua Neoh
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Law and Religion, legal theory, Law and the Humanities, Legal Philosophy, Jurisprudence
Likim Ng
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Critical legal theory, Refugee Law, Law and Cultural Difference, Human Rights and the Law, Law and Humanities, Jurisprudence, Rule of Law Theory
Associate Professor Kate Ogg
Associate Professor
Research interests:
General Human Rights Law and Policy, International and European Human Rights, Refugee Law, Forced Migration and Movement of Peoples, Evidence and Procedure, Gender, feminism, Feminist Legal Theory
Justine Poon
Manager - LRSJ
Research interests:
Law and Humanities, Refugee Law, Law and literature, Critical legal theory, Immigration
Dr Ntina Tzouvala
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
History and Theory of International Law, Third World Approaches to International Law, Law and Political Economy, Critical legal theory, Feminist and Queer Legal Theory
Professor Asmi Wood
Professor
Research interests:
Indigenous rights, History of Indigenous Rights Law, Native Title, International Law of Indigenous peoples, Indigenous Peoples and the Courts, Cross-cultural Communication in Legal Contexts, Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Law, Indigenous Perspectives on Law, International Security Law, Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment of the Poor
Dr Michelle Worthington
Lecturer
Research interests:
Corporate law, Legal personhood, Ethical theory, Corporate ethical agency, Monism, Law reform, legal theory, Systems theory, Legal design
Associate Professor Matthew Zagor
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Refugee Law, Immigration, Human rights, Constitutional Law, Public law, international legal theory, recognition theory, narrative legal identities

Latest news

19
May
2020

Humans of ANU Law: Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee
Joseph Lee is a PhD candidate at ANU College of Law.
12
May
2020

Humans of ANU Law: Likim Ng

Likim Ng
Likim Ng is a PhD candidate at ANU College of Law.
06
Feb
2020

Thai legal scholar’s ANU fellowship highlights strengths of National Law Schools Network

Thitirat Thipsamritkul
Thammasat University lecturer Thitirat Thipsamritkul presented her research into Thailand's new data protection law as part of her seven-week fellowship at ANU College of Law.
17
Jan
2020

New book by ANU Law scholar traces religious roots of law

Associate Professor Joshua Neoh
How does one lead a life of law, love, and freedom? It’s a question that Associate Professor Joshua Neoh aims to address in his new book, "Law, Love and Freedom: From the Sacred to the Secular".
11
Nov
2019

Professor Manderson elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Professor Desmond Manderson FAAL, FASSA, FRSC
ANU College of Law Professor Desmond Manderson discusses the "great privilege" of being named a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

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In the Media

01
Jul
2020

Real estate agent threatening to sue former tenant over 'defamatory' online review

Jelena Gligorijevic quoted in ABC News
Research theme:
11
May
2020

(Un)lawful Lockdown And Government Accountability

Jelena Gligorijevic writes in Scoop
Research theme:
11
Mar
2020

Will the modern university make it to its 1000th birthday?

Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
Research theme:
13
Nov
2019

In politics and law, does art matter?

Desmond Manderson interviewed by ABC Radio National - Big Ideas
Research theme:
23
Oct
2019

Porter is swimming against the tide on legal cannabis

Desmond Manderson writes in The Canberra Times
Research theme:
22
Oct
2019

Cannabis laws bound for the courtroom to work out whether ACT or Commonwealth is right

Desmond Manderson quoted in ABC News
Research theme:
15
Oct
2019

A No-Deal Brexit? British Businesses May Get a Good Deal under a UK-China Free Trade Agreement

Joseph Lee writes in University of Oxford
Research theme:
03
May
2019

The National Security Risks Over Huawei and its 5G Network: Is an Outright Ban or a Restricted Access the Answer?

Joseph Lee writes in University of Oxford
Research theme:
25
Sep
2018

Taking Bigotry off the Books in India

Wayne Morgan interviewed by Policy Forum Pod
Research theme:
24
May
2017

Give Me Beauty or Give Me Death: Understanding Trump's Nostalgia Through La La Land and Jackie

Justine Poon writes in Demos Journal
Research theme:

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Upcoming events

27
Jul
2021

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: The concept of harm

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: The concept of harm
5.00PM to 6.00PM
  • Tony Zhou, Corpus Christi College, the University of Cambridge

Join Tony Zhou as he discusses the concept of harm, the extent to which risks can count as harms, and implications for legal duties in this session of the ANU Law and Philosophy Forum.

23
Sep
2021

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Legality as public reason

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Legality as public reason
5.00PM to 6.00PM
  • Dr Michael Foran, University of Strathclyde, UK

Join Dr Michael Foran as he talks about the principle of legality, and its capacity to constitute what we might call ‘public reason’ in this ANU Law and Philosophy Forum session.

12
Oct
2021

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Fair labelling in criminal law

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Fair labelling in criminal law
5.00PM to 6.00PM
  • Khomotso Moshikaro,Trinity College, the University of Cambridge and the University of Cape Town

Khomotso Moshikaro will talk to the ANU Law and Philosophy Forum about the ethics of fair labelling in criminal law, and how this relates to our understanding of criminal wrongdoing.

Past events

06
Oct
2016

Doing the research I do has left scars: Challenges of researching in the transitional justice field

Olivera Simic
1.00PM to 2.00PM
  • Dr Olivera Simić, Griffith University

Transitional justice research involves critical examination of difficult topics that can raise ethical and methodological issues for participants and for researchers.

02
Dec
2016

New ways forward

Professor Michael Coper
12.00AM

A conference in honour of Professor Michael Coper.

Program
26
Sep
2017

Against epistocracy: Reconsidering the demographic objection

Udit Bhatia
3.00PM to 4.00PM
  • Udit Bhatia, University of Oxford

Why should we prefer democracy to an epistocracy of competent persons? In his response to this question, David Estlund appeals to the ‘demographic objection’.

15
Aug
2018

Reading group - Contemporary critical theory: What is it? What's it for?

Reading group
5.00PM to 6.30PM

This reading group, convened by author and philosopher of aesthetics Robyn Ferrell, now an Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, will excavate the history of critical theory from Benjamin and Adorno, with a focus on theoretical work by leading figures in recent years and on contemporary issues of the most urgent importance.  

Reading
17
Sep
2019

Performing sovereignty and the refugee body

Performing sovereignty and the refugee body
1.00PM to 3.00PM
  • Likim Ng

HDR student Likim Ng presents her thesis paper.

23
Sep
2020

Why the law is what it ought to be

Trevor Allan_col seminar 2020
6.00PM to 7.00PM
  • Professor Trevor Allan LLD, FBA

In this seminar, Professor Trevor Allan LLD, FBA of the University of Cambridge will present his thesis that the law is constituted by the requirements of justice for the political community in which it operates, so that a public conception of justice is substituted for conflicting private ones.

27
Apr
2021

ANU Law and Philosophy Forum: Hohfeldian analytics of rights of action

ANU Law & Philosophy Forum: Hohfeldian analytics of rights of action
1.00PM to 2.00PM
  • Professor Kit Barker, University of Queensland

Join Professor Kit Barker in the ANU Law & Philosophy Forum, a series focused on issues spanning law and philosophy. Professor Kramer will be sharing his work-in-progress, in which he applies Hohfeldian analytics to ‘rights of action’ in public and private law.

17
Mar
2021

Inventing Necessity: How Modern Jurisprudence Transformed the New 'Third World' States

Coel Kirkby seminar
1.00PM to 2.00PM
  • Dr Coel Kirkby

Join our next ANU College of Law 'virtual visitor' Dr Coel Kirkby (University of Sydney) as he discusses his latest research.

26
May
2021

What is wrong with slavery?

What is wrong with slavery?
1.00PM to 2.00PM
  • Associate Professor Joshua Neoh

Join Associate Professor Joshua Neoh as he explores what is wrong with slavery and its implications in this session of the ANU College of Law research seminar series.

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