LSAANZ Conference Program
Thursday, 5 Dec 2019
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Registration
Check in for LSAANZ and collect your 'kit'. You'll find us in the foyer of Building C at the SCU Gold Coast campus, adjacent to the main lecture theatre. Check the 'Housekeeping' page for a downloadable map of the campus.
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Welcome and Conference Opening
Welcome to Country and conference opening will be held in C1.05 - the Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of Building C.
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Plenary Panel :: Climate emergency and the problem of democracy
Plenary :: Panel - Climate emergency and the problem of democracy
Moderator: Aidan RickettsLecture Theatre C1.05
Climate emergency and the problem of democracy, Professor Mary Heath, Dr Anne Poelina, Dr Nicole Rogers, Sue Higginson
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome drinks
Book Launch :: Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change
Professor William MacNeilFoyer, Level 6
Join us for welcome drinks on Level 6 and the launch of Dr Nicole Rogers' book, Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change.
Friday, 6 Dec 2019
8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration
Check in for LSAANZ and collect your 'kit' if you haven't already done so. You'll find us in the foyer of Building C at the SCU Gold Coast campus, adjacent to the main lecture theatre. Check the 'Housekeeping' page for a downloadable map of the campus.
8:30 am - 9:30 am Plenary :: Jimmy Everett
Plenary :: Australian First Nations and Citizenship: The “Elephant in the Room” in Treaty Discussions
Chair: Dr Trish LukerLecture Theatre C1.05
Australian First Nations and Citizenship: The “Elephant in the Room” in Treaty Discussions, Jimmy Everett, plangermairreenner man of the Turbuna-Meenamatta (Mt Ben Lomond) region
9:30 am - 10:30 am Parallel Sessions
Session 37 :: Law, Hope and Survival
Chair: Dr Tanya SerisierC6.14
The end of hope? Has law failed the survivors of sexual violence?, Dr Emma Henderson, La Trobe Law School and Dr Kirsty Duncanson, La Trobe University
Historical Abuse: The New Justice Crisis, Naomi-Ellen Speechley, University of Manchester
Session 38 :: Rights of Nature Revisited - Toward an Ecological Jurisprudence
Chair: Dr Katie O'BryanC6.15
Fluid Jurisprudence - The rights of nature in end times, Dr Elizabeth Macpherson, University of Canterbury
The end of ‘nature’: river management under climate change, Dr Erin O'Donell, University of Melbourne
Session 39 :: Cilmate Crisis and Environmental Justice
Chair: Dr Cristy ClarkC6.16
Legal intersections of cumulative effects and environmental justice: A comparative analysis, Dr Rebecca Nelson, University of Melbourne
Climate Emergencies and Constitutional Habits, Dr Jocelyn Stacey, University of British Columbia, Allard School of Law
Session 40 :: Logos, Pathos and Environmental Ethos
Chair: Dr Alessandro PelizzonC6.17
The compassion deficit in environmental law. Is there a problem with allowing species to go extinct!, Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, QUT
Cognitive dissonance: how the knowledge held by climate experts informs their personal life, Dr Jean S Renouf, Southern Cross University
10:30 am - 11:00 am Morning Tea
Head to the kitchen on Level 6 to make your own coffee/tea, or head down to The Green Room (just outside Building C) for a made-for-you brew.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Session 41 :: Indigenous perspectives and Ecological Jurisprudence
Chair: Dr Elizabeth MacphersonC6.14
Navigating the laws affecting Indigenous connections to country, Dr Katie O'Bryan, Monash University
On Just Terms!, Dr Anne Poelina, Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner
Burying the lede: the essential role of Indigenous law(s) in creating rights of nature, Dr Cristy Clark; Dr Erin O'Donell, University of Melbourne; Dr Anne Poelina; and Dr Alessandro Pelizzon, Southern Cross University
Session 42 :: Collective Identities and Citizenship
Chair: Valeria Vazquez GuevaraC6.15
Security, the Nation and Birthright Citizenship: The Case of Canada, Professor Lois Harder, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
Duty Free Citizenship: The Case of Peter Thiel, Dr Jonathan Barrett, SACL, Victoria University of Wellington
Changing Race: Fluidity, Immutability and the Evolution of Equal-Protection Jurisprudence in American Constitutional Law, Professor John Tehranian, Southwestern Law School
Session 43 :: Gender, Sexuality and Law
Chair: Dr Emma HendersonC6.16
Political Apologies to LGBTIQ Peoples: Justice, Pinkwashing and Inclusion, Dr Allen George, University of Sydney
The end of social reproduction? Neoliberalism, crises of care & new dilemmas of reproductive labour, Angela Kintominas, University of NSW
The End of Gender: Good news for the Rule of Law, Dr Zach Richards, Sydney City School of Law, Top Education Institute
Session 44 :: Theory in End Times
Chair: Professor William MacNeilC6.17
Negative Mythology, or Why You Shouldn't Let Truth Get in the Way of Good Theory, Dr Shane Chalmers, University of Melbourne
Touching the Law, Thomas Giddens, University of Dundee
The Theological-Juridical Apparatus of the Will: Three considerations in relation to Agamben’s concepts of action, end and inoperativity, Dr Timothy Peters, University of the Sunshine Coast
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch and LSAANZ AGM
Lunch will be on Level 6 prior to the LSAANZ AGM.
Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) AGM
Lecture Theatre C1.05
If you are not attending the conference, you are able to attend via Zoom https://scuonline.zoom.us/j/8540597089 (or if you have the desktop app, it's Meeting ID: 854-059-7089).
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions
Session 45 :: ROUNDTABLE - Current trends in Ecological Jurisprudence
Moderators: Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Dr Erin O'DonnellC6.14
Session 46 :: Workplace Thriving Beyond End Times
Chair: Dr Lyndal SleepC6.15
Economic Disadvantages and Access to Justice System: The Case of Unemployed People on Newstart Allowance in Australia, Shahadat Hossain, University of Technology Sydney
Law stories of wellbeing and small business: choose your own utopic, dystopic or mypoic interpretations, Emma Babbage, Southern Cross University
The Employee Right to Disconnect, Professor Paul Secunda, Marquette University Law School
Session 47 :: Panel - What's the good of lawyers?
Chair: Associate Professor Tyrone KirchengastC6.16
Do it yourself? Experiences and case outcomes of victims of traffic accidents in a compensation process, with and without legal representation, Iris Becx
VU University Amsterdam; Nieke Elbers, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement; Arno Akkermans, Kiliaan van Wees, and Sonja Leferink
Redress transgressions: Misconduct by legal practitioners in redress schemes, Juliet Davis, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
The role of victim's lawyers in criminal proceedings in the Netherlands and the EU, Dr Nieke Elbers, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement; Iris Beck, VU University Amsterdam; Sonja Meijer, Arlette Schijns and Arno Akkermans
What good do lawyers do?, Dr Robyn Holder, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
Session 48 :: Panel - Speaking otherwise – representation, repression, regression
Chair: Associate Professor Juliet RogersC6.17
Christchurch and the (im)possibility of speaking, Dr Sahar Ghumkhor, University of Melbourne
Can the Clitoris Speak? Understanding the High Court’s current deliberation on the constitution of the clitoris, Associate Professor Juliet Rogers, University of Melbourne
The Effects of Female Genital Mutilation Law in Australia: Can the Subaltern Not Speak?, Professor Nan Seuffert, Director, Legal Intersections Research Centre, School of Law, University of Wollongong
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea
Head to the kitchen on Level 6 to make your own coffee/tea, or head down to The Green Room (just outside Building C) for a made-for-you brew.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
Session 49 :: No Place, Some Place
Chair: Professor Rosemary HunterC6.14
An Indefinite State: Theorizing Canada’s Migrant Detention Regime, Dr Jen Rinaldi, Ontario Tech University and Dr Shanti Fernando, Ontario Tech University
Speaking truth to power or "faux copro". Coproduction in criminal justice, Dr Maggie Hall, University of Western Sydney
Strategies of denial and the Australian Royal Commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry, Associate Professor Penny Crofts, University of Technology Sydney
Session 50 :: Panel - Climate change, ‘natural’ disasters and law beyond the state
Chair: Dr Rebecca MonsonC6.15
Navigating pluralist tenure systems: uncertainty as resilience?, Dr Rebecca Monson, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
The temporalities of the state, the project, and climate change in the recovery from disaster, Dr Caroline Compton, UNSW Law, University of New South Wales
Property Systems and Climate Migration: The Non-Linearity of Institutional Change, Professor Daniel Fitzpatrick, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Between State Sovereignty and Internationalisation: Responding to South Asian Famines and the making of the Developmentalist State in Colonial India, Dr Adil Hasan Khan, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Responding to climate change and (im)mobility in the Pacific: challenging state-centric approaches, Dr Fanny Thornton, Faculty of Business, Government & Law, University of Canberra
Session 51 :: Environmental Change and Legal Geographies
Chair: Associate Professor Nicole GrahamC6.16
Giving up on species in place - Geography, the EPBC Act and the Tasmanian devil, Brad Jessup, University of Melbourne
Integrating climate change adaptation actions into legal and policy frameworks for achieving Sustainable Forest Management: Lessons from Australia, Caterina Guidi, University of NSW
Ocean Change, Global environmental interdependence and Oceania’s response, Genevieve Quirk, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security
Session 52 :: Panel - The end of economic inequality? Discussions about social security systems in Australian and international contexts
Chair: Dr Lyndal SleepC6.17
Domestic violence, social security law and the couple rule, Dr Lyndal Sleep, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University
The approach to non-marital couple relationships: a comparative analysis of Australia and South African law, Alida Vrey, Griffith University
The right to social security in the Philippines: Promises and disappointments, Gemma Rodriguez, Griffith University
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Plenary :: Professor Margaret Davies, Flinders University
LSAANZ Publication Prizes
Dr Trish LukerLecture Theatre C1.05
Information about the LSAANZ publication prizes is available at:
Plenary 9 :: The Ends of Law in an Era of Eco-Social Fragmentation and Rift
Chair: Associate Profesor John PageLecture Theatre C1.05
The Ends of Law in an Era of Eco-Social Fragmentation and Rift, Professor Margaret Davies, Flinders University
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Conference Dinner
Dinner will be held at a local restaurant, and will be vegan/vegetarian deliciousness! Attendees will be emailed the menu and other details prior to the conference.
There will be a "Reader meets Author" session during the evening.
Saturday, 7 Dec 2019
8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration
Check in for LSAANZ and collect your 'kit' if you haven't already done so. You'll find us in the foyer of Building C at the SCU Gold Coast campus, adjacent to the main lecture theatre. Check the 'Housekeeping' page for a downloadable map of the campus.
8:30 am - 9:30 am Plenary :: John Flood, Griffith University
Plenary :: The Machine Is Not Stopping: The Possibility of Global Law in Times of Automation and Crisis
Chair: Professor Kieran TranterLecture Theatre C1.05
The Machine Is Not Stopping: The Possibility of Global Law in Times of Automation and Crisis, Professor John Flood, Griffith University
9:30 am - 10:30 am Parallel Sessions
Session 53 :: Post-Colonial Displacement
Chair: Associate Profesor John PageC6.14
The End of Disenchantment? Settler Connection to Place, Professor Kirsten Anker, McGill University Faculty of Law
Significant Indigenous sites, reconciliatory inclusive/exclusion, and Indigenous displacement in cities in the neoliberal age, Associate Professor Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
Session 54 :: Hegemonic Health
Chair: Dr Alessandro PelizzonC6.15
What about the boys? Masculinities discourses in legal approaches to HPV vaccination for boys, Joanne Stagg, Griffith University
Recognising the limits of modern medicine: Regulating the use of Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) Orders in Ireland, Lucy M Davis, PhD Candidate, University of Limerick
Session 55 :: (De)Humanizing Immigration
Chair: Associate Professor Jessie HohmannC6.16
Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself: Human Rights of Refugees under Changing Immigration Laws, Assistant Professor Mercy Deborah Samathanam, O. P. Jindal Global University, India
Penalizing Presence, Associate Professor Andrew Kim, Syracuse University, College of Law
Session 56 :: Privatizing Politics: Social Media and Corporate Control
Chair: Professor Kieran TranterC6.17
The End of Truth, Fake News and Online Identity: Dave Eggers´s The Circle, Professor Jaroslav Kušnir, University of Prešov, Slovakia
End of Governance or A Need of Governance? : Regulating Social Media in a Post-Conflict Society, Dr Darshana Sumanadasa, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo
10:30 am - 11:00 am Morning Tea
Head to the kitchen on Level 6 to make your own coffee/tea, or head down to The Green Room (just outside Building C) for a made-for-you brew.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Parallel sessions
Session 57 :: Violence in the Shadow of Law
Chair: Dr Zach RichardsC6.14
Surviving rape trial process: The end of juries?, Professor Elisabeth McDonald, University of Canterbury and Paulette Benton-Greig, University of Waikato
Mandating Consent: Carceral Horizons and Visions of Dangerous Sex in Contemporary Consent Discourse, Dr Tanya Serisier, School of Law, Birkbeck College
Don’t be so sensitive: Gendered Hate Speech and [the lack of] legal regulation in Australia, Nicole Shackleton, La Trobe University
Session 58 :: Of Death, Taxes and Imagined Apocalypses
Chair: Dr Jonathan BarrettC6.15
Ensuring the Survival of the Tax System in the Event of a Major Nuclear Attack, Micah Burch, University of Sydney
Disaster or Emergency? Could Knowing the Difference Counter the Rise of Exceptionalism?, Sascha Mueller, University of Canterbury
The Betrayed Promise of the End of Order: Apocalypse Narratives as an excuse for complacency, Keelan Parker, Southern Cross University
Session 59 :: Law and Evil
Chair: Associate Professor John PageC6.16
Too little-too late? The last wave of Nazi trials in Germany, Dr Kerstin Braun, University of Southern Queensland
Returning from Hell: The Exhumation of Mass Graves as Rectifying Historical Record, Dr Natalia Maystorovich Chulio, University of Sydney
Images of ‘evil’ and ‘hell’: International Law and Argentina’s 1983 Truth Commission, Valeria Vazquez Guevara, University of Melbourne
Session 60 :: Remembering Law
Chair: Dr Loganathan KrishnanC6.17
What is a Document? Australian First Nations peoples’ use of legal documentary practices, Dr Trish Luker, University of Technology Sydney
The Legal Limits of Malleable Memory: International Cultural Heritage Law and Transitional Justice, Associate Professor Lucas Lixinski, Faculty of Law, University of NSW
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Book Launches
Enjoy lunch on Level 6, and the launch of Dr Elizabeth Macpherson and Dr Jocelyn Stacey's books.
Book Launches :: Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation, and The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency
Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Professor Kirsten Anker (conversants)Foyer, Level 6
Join us for lunch and the launch of:
- Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience, Dr Elizabeth Macpherson with Professor Afshin Akhtar-Khavari (conversant)
- Regulation andThe Constitution of the Environmental Emergency, Dr Jocelyn Stacey with Professor Kirsten Anker (conversant)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions
Session 61 :: Across the Threshold: Law and Living Well
Chair: Dr Allen GeorgeC6.14
“I ain’t dead, I ain’t done”- Freedom of association at work and the reinvention of law and accounting, Dr Amanda Reilly, Victoria University of Wellington
The Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions in ICESCR Article 11(1) – Radical or Rapacious?, Associate Professor Jessie Hohmann, University of Technology Sydney and Associate Professor Beth Goldblatt, University of Technology Sydney
The Ideological Influence of Gross National Happiness on the Administration of Criminal Justice in Bhutan, Karma Tshering, University of Queensland
Session 62 :: Law and Property in Context
Chair: Dr Alessandro PelizzonC6.15
Commercial buildings in seismically active areas – does the law provide enough protection for users?, Dr Toni Collins, University of Canterbury
Sydney’s Drinking Water Catchment: a legal geographical analysis of coal mining and water security, Associate Professor Nicole Graham, University of SYdney
Bouldering and the public estate, Associate Professor John Page, Southern Cross University
Session 64 :: (Un)Lawful Violence?
Chair: Professor Elizabeth McDonaldC6.17
Post-Provocation Sentencing in Domestic Homicides: The Role of Mental Impairment in Defence Narratives, Professor Rosemary Hunter, University of Kent and Dr Danielle Tyson, Deakin University
A shock to the System: Taser Use and Abuse in Western Australia and Accompanying Institutional Failures, Professor Robert Cunningham, Curtin University
The Choice of Evils, Professor Vera Bergelson, Rutgers University School of Law
Session 67 :: From the Cradle to the Grave
Chair: Dr Lucy DavisC6.16
The End of Parental Responsibility – Will Children Finally Thrive?, Dr Esther Erlings, Flinders University
The end of theory? The pressure toward a ‘vocational’ education. Architecting Justice: “Whoever acts with consideration acts with delight”, Marcus Edwards, University of Tasmania
Necro-waste, the Corpse and its Legal Entanglements, Dr Marc Trabsky, LaTrobe University and Dr Jacinthe Flore, LaTrobe University
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon tea
Head to the kitchen on Level 6 to make your own coffee/tea, or head down to The Green Room (just outside Building C) for a made-for-you brew.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
Session 63 :: Indigenous Cultural Rights
Chair: Dr Trish LukerC6.16
First Nations ‘cultural loss’, whiteness and the Timber Creek Judgment, Professor Greta Bird, Southern Cross University
Normative tensions between cultural identity and self-determination in the right of Indigenous Peoples to "benefit-sharing": a preliminary inquiry to Indigenous-Industry agreements in Chile, Professor Cristóbal Carmona, Universidad Diego Portales
Cultural rights, the law and the erasure of the Indigenous, Dr Mark Harris, University of British Columbia
Session 65 :: Protest in End Times
Chair: Dr Caroline ComptonC6.14
Public Protests and Civil Disobedience: Scalpels or Axes for Stakeholder Rights?, Dr Manuel Oyson, CQUniversity
Climate rebellion and political resistance at the edge of chaos, Aidan Ricketts, Southern Cross University
Forgive us our Trespasses: Truth Claims, Transparency and the Demonization of Animal Activists, Anne Schillmoller
Session 66 :: Apocalypse and the State of Exception
Chair: Dr Robyn HolderC6.15
Law’s Structural Violence and the Weapons of the Accountable, Rob Laird, Australian National University
The State of Exception and the False-Self System, Benjamin Cherry-Smith, University of the Sunshine Coast
The end of politics as we know it, and the changing role of the Law, Sophie Trevitt, Australian National University (ANU)
Session 68 :: Legal Histories
Chair: Jonathan HarlenC6.17
Indigenous law in post-colonial Ireland and Australia, Séamus Krumrey-Quinn, University of Adelaide
The vulnerability of the Aboriginal People in relation to Land and Customary Rights, Dr Loganathan Krishnan, Monash University Malaysia
Legal Transplantation within Post Emancipatory British West Indies 1830s-1870s, Justine Collins, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Plenary :: Francois Kunc, Supreme Court of NSW
Plenary :: The Judgment as Revelation
Chair: Professor William MacNeilLecture Theatre C1.05
The Judgment as Revelation, Justice François Kunc, Supreme Court of NSW
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