Journal articles

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Law and the fool, Law Text Culture (2010)
 

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Law and liberty in a time of climate change, Public Space: the Journal of Law and Social Justice (2009)

In this article I examine the intersection between human rights and climate change, and consider...

 

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Talking to judges about the art of judging: an annotated performance text (with Greta Mary Bird), Public Space: the Journal of Law and Social Justice (2009)

We performed this paper at the Judicial Reasoning: Art or Science? conference held at the...

 

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Activism and the academy, Alternative Law Journal (2008)

How the legal academy can support and accommodate activism - North East Forest Alliance (NEFA)...

 

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Art or artifice: judging in troubled times (with Greta Mary Bird), The art of judging: a special issue of the Southern Cross University Law Review (2008)
 

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Terrorist v sovereign: legal performances in a state of exception, Law Text Culture (2008)

In this article, I engage with the work of political theorist Giorgio Agamben and interrogate...

 

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The play of law: comparing performances in law and theatre, Queensland University of Technology Law Journal (2008)

I am undertaking an investigation into the interrelationship between law and theatre. I shall explore...

 

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Violence and play in Saddam's trial, Melbourne Journal of International Law (2007)

In the performance of Saddam's trial, which culminated in the executions of Saddam and two...

 

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The playfulness of constitutional law, Southern Cross University Law Review (2005)

Delivered as a conference paper at the Australian Law and Society Conference, December 2004 -...

 

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The Prime Minister as puppet: taking Howard to the High Court, Alternative Law Journal (2004)

The author examines a constitutional oddity, the common informer suit. This mechanism allows a member...

 

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Fear of freedom: anti-terrorism laws and the challenge to Australian democracy (with Aidan Ricketts), Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2002)

The nature of the Australian government's proposed legislative response to terrorism is discussed in this...

 

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Seeds, weeds and greed: an analysis of the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth), its effect on property rights, and the legal and policy dimensions of a constitutional challenge, Macquarie Law Journal (2002)

Australia's Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth) (GTA) legislation facilitates the widespread commercial release and use...

 

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Mad mothers, over-zealous therapists and the paedophile inquiry, Southern Cross University Law Review (1999)

The author examines the appearance of central tenets of the child sexual abuse backlash movement...

 

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Third party rights in NSW environmental legislation: the backlash (with Aidan Ricketts), Environmental and Planning Law Journal (1999)
 

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Greening the constitution, Environment South Australia (1995)
 

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Wimmenspeak on midwifery lore, E Law (1995)

The author argues the recent legislative banning of lay midwives in the State of New...

 

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A dark green perspective on environmental dispute resolution, Commercial Dispute Resolution Journal (1994)
 

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Stepping out of the ivory tower with contemptuous breasts, Alternative Law Journal (1994)

Protest over a magistrate's suggestion that a young mother should breastfeed outside the court.

 

Books

Green paradigms and the law, School of Law and Justice Papers (1998)
 

Book chapters

Where the wild things are: finding the wild in law, Exploring wild law: the philosophy of earth jurisprudence (2011)
 

Law, order and green extremists, Green paradigns and the law (1998)
 

Theses

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The play(fulness) of law, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2008)

In this thesis, I undertake an investigation into the relationship between play, playfulness and law....

 

Conference publications

Climate change litigation and the awfulness of lawfulness, Cultural History of Climate Change Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2012)
 

Telling the tale of the children: the challenge of adapting law to the predictions of climate change science, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Conference: Climate Adaptation in Action (2012)
 

Wild law and science (fiction), Wild Law 2011: Earth Jurisprudence: Building Theory and Practice, Australia's 3rd Wild Law Conference (2011)
 

Planning for climate change in New South Wales: do planning laws and climate change litigation hinder or help?, Climate Adaptation Futures Preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change: International Climate Adaptation Futures Conference (2010)
 

Wild time, Keeping the fire: Cultural Integrity, Wild Law and Economic Development Conference (2010)
 

Law and liberty in a time of climate change (Presentation), The doctor as God; the corporation as Queen: What about the country?: 64th Australian Law Teachers' Association Conference (2009)
 

The art and performance of judging (with Greta Mary Bird), Proceedings of Judicial reasoning: Art or Science Conference (2009)
 

Where the wild things are: finding the wild in law, Wild Law Conference: Australia's First Conference on Earth Jurisprudence (2009)
 

Performances in the wild, Turangawaewae - A sense of place: Australasian Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies Conference (2008)

In this paper, I compare two different forms of performance, legal performances and performances of...

 

Sacrificing rights in response to risk: a comparison of the Australian responses to terrorism and climate change, Proceedings of W(h)ither human rights?: Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Conference (2008)
 

Violence and play: surviving the Holocaust, Proceedings of W(h)ither human rights?: Law and Society Association Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Conference (2008)
 

Angels and chasers: performances of embodied resistance in a state of exception, 2007 International Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand: Markings: Sites of analysis, discipline, interrogation (2007)
 

Dramatic moments in the War against Terrorism: the performance of the terror trials and the theatre of dissent, Right or Racket? The Protection of Law: 23rd annual Law and Society Conference (2006)
 

Terrorism and black magic in the Lodhi trial, The Protection of Law’, the 2006 Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Legal Intersections Research Centre and the Faculty of Law (2006)
 

The playfulness of constitutional law (Presentation), 22nd annual Law and Society Conference (2004)
 

The common informer suit: a strategy for peace activists, Societies and Laws: (Re)act? (Re)create? (Re)form?: 21st Australian and New Zealand Law and Society Conference (2003)
 

The Gene Technology Act, Genetically modified foods and farms’, Total Environment Centre Conference (2002)
 

Re-interpreting democracy: an activist’s guide to the Constitution, Legal technologies and the body politic: Australian and New Zealand Law and Society Conference (2000)
 

Mad mothers, over-zealous therapists and the paedophile inquiry (Presentation), Crime, criminology and justice : current trends and future directions : 13th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) Conference (1998)

In my paper I look at the appearance of central tenets of the child sexual...

 

Greening the Constitution (or, Who’s afraid of the founding fathers anyway?), Defending the environment : a public interest environmental law conference (1995)