Dr Jennifer Nielsen BSc(Monash), LLB(Hons)(Monash), PhD(Melb) Jennifer Nielsen is a long-term member of the School of Law & Justice's academic team, is the School’s current Director of Research and Research Training by Higher Degrees, and is coordinating the Honours program in the Bachelor of Laws. She was Head of School from 2009-2011, and the School's LLB Course Coordinator from 2005-2007. She has taught a range of units within the undergraduate curriculum, and is an active researcher. She is active in community organisations in the Northern Rivers region in NSW, including the Nimbin Neighbourhood and Information Centre and the Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre. In 2001, she was awarded ‘Volunteer of the Year’ by the NSW Law & Justice Foundation for her long-term commitment to improving access to justice in the region, particularly for socially and economically marginalised people. Before joining Southern Cross in 1994, she practised as a solicitor in New South Wales and Victoria, and worked in academic positions with both the Monash Orientation Scheme for Aborigines and the Faculty of Law at Monash University.
Journal articles
Whiteness and anti-discrimination law - it's in the design, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (2008)
Although anti-discrimination laws have supported much social change, they have been subjected to sustained critique...
'There's always an easy out': how 'innocence' and 'probability' whitewash race discrimination, Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (2007)
This paper analyses the jurisprudence in certain Australian discrimination cases to demonstrate how anti-discrimination laws...
How mainstream law makes Aboriginal women ‘disappear’, Indigenous Law Bulletin (2004)
That an Aboriginal woman may experience discrimination precisely because she is an Aboriginal woman[1] is...
Dealing with the dilemmas: integrity, knowledge and research, Southern Cross University Law Review (2002)
Based on a paper presented at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Annual Conference, Victoria University...
Legal services in rural communties: issues for clients and lawyers (with Jeff Giddings and Barbara Hook), Alternative Law Journal (2001)
This article considers the ability of people living in rural, regional and remote Australia (we...
Books
Introducing the law (with Gary N. Heilbronn and P Latimer), School of Law and Justice research papers (2002)
"Major topics for discussion include the relationship between law and society ; the legislative process...
Book chapters
Evaluating laws, Introducing the law (2002)
Summary: "Major topics for discussion include the relationship between law and society ; the legislative...
Evaluating the legal system, Introducing the Law (2002)
Summary: "Major topics for discussion include the relationship between law and society ; the legislative...
Indigenous Australian peoples and human rights (with Gary Martin), Human rights in Australian law (1998)
Conference publications
Optimising student learning in law using blended delivery: issues and strategies (with Anne Schillmoller), The doctor as God, the corporation as Queen: what about the country? The 64th Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) annual conference (2009)
Southern Cross University has an established reputation for the delivery of distance education programs. More...
Looking for the hook: the problem in proving race discrimination, Labour Law Seminar, Melbourne Law School (2008)
Discussion of the difficulties involved in proving complaints of race discrimination, arguing that anti-discrimination jurisprudence...
An intractable problem: the endurance of whiteness at work, Borderpolitics of Whiteness Conference (2006)
There’s always an easy out’: How “innocence” and “probability” whitewash race discrimination, Passages: law, aesthetics, politics: Law and Literature Association Conference (2006)