Marett Leiboff joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong in July 2008. Prior to this, she was an academic in the Faculty of Law at QUT in Brisbane. Law is Marett's second career; she moved into law from her work in broadcasting regulation during the 1980s. Marett holds a PhD from Griffith University, in which she explored the legal construction of cultural significance in Australia's cultural property legislation, holds an LLM specialising in Intellectual Property from the University of London, and an LLB (Hons) from QUT. Marett also has a BA and MA specialising in theatre studies, and she draws on her disciplinary intersections in her research and teaching into legal theory, media law, and legal understandings of creativity and culture.
Articles
'DITTO': law, pop culture and humanities and the impact of intergenerational interpretative dissonance, Faculty of Law - Papers (2012)
Building on Julius Stone's remark that jurisprudence is law's extroversion (or extraversion), this essay explores...
Ghosts of law and humanities (past, present, future), Faculty of Law - Papers (2012)
This introductory essay teases out the ghosts of a Law and Humanities Past to find...
‘The main thing is to shut them out’ The Deployment of Law and the Arrival of Russians in Australia 1913-1925: An histoire, Law Text Culture (2011)
On Tuesday 10 August 1915,2 a 25 year old Russian3 named Neplen Matanakes was allowed...
Introduction: Law's Theatrical Presence + Contributions & Acknowledgements (with Sophie Nield), Law Text Culture (2010)
This special issue of Law Text Culture explores law through the lens of theatrical theory...
Law, Muteness and the Theatrical, Law Text Culture (2010)
This short composition muses upon the possibilities that the theatrical may offer as jurisprudence or...
Presentations
Alice through the wormhole: reconciling spatial and temporal disjunctions in the creation of content in Australian media law, Faculty of Law - Papers (2010)
Copy of powerpoint presentation to the conference.
"Talkin' 'bout law's generations: an empirical and jurisprudential investigation into the reading of legal cases by different generations of lawyers", Faculty of Law - Papers (2010)
The Australian TV comedy quiz show, Talkin’ ‘bout your generation, pits the knowledge of three...
Talkin' 'bout law's generations: Intergenerational Differences in Reading Legal Texts, Faculty of Law - Papers (2010)
This paper describes a project I am currently undertaking which seeks to find out if...