2026 Management Committee

Kathleen BIRRELL
(President)

law and the inhuman(ities), decoloniality, new materialism, Indigenous jurisprudences, political ecology

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Quinn EDWARDS
(Secretary)

AI, legal personhood, science fiction

Shane CHALMERS
(Treasurer)

law and colonialism, law and literature, critical theory, international law and development

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Karen CRAWLEY
(Vice-President)

art, law, humanities, feminist legal theory

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Laura PETERSEN
(Vice-President)

law and humanities, critical jurisprudence, German visual culture, history and literature in 20th century

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Honni VAN RIJSWIJK
(Vice-President)

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Valeria VÁZQUEZ GUEVARA
(Vice-President)

public international law, international law and politics, law and humanities methodologies

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Susan BIRD
(General Committee)

interdisciplinarity, legal geography, jurisprudence, law and literature

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Elizabeth ENGLEZOS
(General Committee)

hyperconnection, digital media, identity, data, privacy

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Benjamin GOH
(General Committee)

law and literature

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Justine POON
(General Committee)

critical legal theory, humanities, poetics, universality

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James Gilchrist STEWART
(General Committee)

critical legal studies, legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence

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Sabarish SURESH
(General Committee)

law and psychoanalysis, legal theory, law and literature, legal history, constitutional law, criminal law

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Honorary Members

Marett LEIBOFF
(Honorary Member)

theatrical jurisprudence, law and performance, law and humanities, cultural legal studies, legal theory

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Members

Afshin AKHTAR-KHAVARI

nonhuman, inhuman, plants, restoration, nomos

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Amanda ALEXANDER

international humanitarian law; international law history; law and literature

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Odara G. ANDRADE

state formation and capitalism, dialectical materialism, international institutions, social development in the Global South, capital accumulation and labour

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Thalia ANTHONY

colonisation, criminal law and sentencing, First Nations rights and resistance, automobility, homelessness

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Bruce Baer ARNOLD

legal history, literature, technology, philosophy, regulation

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Avni BAHRI

human rights, access to justice, criminal justice system – police and prisons, juvenile justice, gender

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Andrea L. BALDINI 白龙

street art, graffiti, everyday creativity, intellectual property, legal imaginaries in public spaces

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Swethaa BALLAKRISHNEN

legal profession, queers, souths, alterities, South Asia

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Olivia BARR

law and humanities, jurisprudence, legal movement, relationships between law, place and sovereignties

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Vera BERGELSON

criminal law, criminal justice, jurisprudence

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Edwin BIKUNDO

international and comparative law, literature, the arts and the humanities

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Aslıhan Deniz BİLGEHAN

administrative law, cyber law, digital divide, accessibility

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Rachel BOLTON

legal history, classification, environmental law, trees, jurisprudence

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Danielle van den BRINK

law and literature, affect studies, nineteenth century English sensation fiction, neo-Victorian literature

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Chris BUTLER

critical legal geography, social theory, environmental humanities, urban political ecology, critical public law, state theory

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Sevda CLARK

public international law, human rights, administrative law, discrimination law and intersectionality

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Tracey COLEMAN

teaching and learning, art history

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Johanna COMMINS

law, literature, feminism, jurisprudence

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René CORNISH

visual jurisprudence, semiotics, social media. employment law

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Penny CROFTS

horror, evil, crime, corporate crime, culpability

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Alexander DAMIANOS

Anthropocene, smart seas, translation, science and technology studies, climate governance

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André DAO

human rights, digital data technologies, legal imaginaries, global corporations, postcolonial studies

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Jeannine DELOMBARD

American literature, slavery, nineteenth-century U.S., personhood

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Isolde DE VILLIERS

spatial justice, urban law, jurisprudence

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Marcelo Feitosa de Paula DIAS

international law, traceability technologies, global native forest governance, data driven approach

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Yeliz Figen DÖKER

AGI regulation, science fiction and law, the ethics of AI

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Debolina DUTTA

feminist jurisprudence, sexuality, postcolonial thought, humour, research ethics, justice

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Maria ELANDER

intersection of law and culture in the aftermath of atrocities, testimony, representation, archives, Khmer Rouge

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Gerlov van ENGELENHOVEN

postcolonial memory studies, decolonial activism, Dutch colonial history, (in)tangible cultural heritage, voice and silence

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Shea ESTERLING

cultural heritage law, human rights, indigenous rights

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Julen ETXABE

law and humanities, jurisprudence, legal theory, cultural legal studies, judgment, human rights

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Sharon Yanling FENG

anti-miscegenation laws, intersections of legal and gender history

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John FLOOD

legal profession, globalisation, technology, blockchain, AI

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Moosa Akefi GHAZIANI

human rights, middle eastern law

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Maria GIANNACOPOULOS

decolonisation, coloniality of law, decolonial criminology, settler colonial violence, debtscapes

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Johanna GIBSON

intellectual property, creative industries, film, fashion, art, legal theory, animal studies

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Thomas GIDDENS

legal theory, cultural legal studies, critical legal studies, legal aesthetics, law and visuality

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Vince GODING

law and society, law in context, legal theory and jurisprudence, corporations law and theory

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Perla GUARNEROS-SANCHEZ

law, human rights, women rights, Australia, Latin America

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Amy HAMILTON

citizenship, character, Australia, affect, identity, rights

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Lee HARROP

visual arts, art and law, ecologically-oriented

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Ben HIGHTOWER

law and society, threshold and liminal legalities, forced migration, dissent, legal semiotics

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Sarah HOOK

copyright, moral rights, postmodernism, romanticism, authorship, free speech

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Daniel HOURIGAN

legal theory, psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy, speculative fiction

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Jonathan W. JOHNSON

hermeneutical aesthetics, negative aesthetics (ugliness, disgust, sublime), Chinese philosophy, philosophy of religion

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Anastasia KARAGIANNI

gender equality, gender discrimination, gender bias, AI, feminism, Law

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Evie KENDAL

bioethics, emerging technology, utopian studies, science fiction, health communication

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Aileen Waitaaga KIMUHU

traditional knowledge, queer African studies, intellectual property, postcolonialism, belonging

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Joshua KROOK

law and technology, legal philosophy, law and literature, legal education

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Simon LAVIS

Nazi law, history, theory, Holocaust, critical

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Kate LEADER

access to justice; litigants in person; law and performance; criminal law

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Jia LIU

global justice, healthcare, pharmaceutical innovation, intellectual monopoly capitalism

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Lucas LIXINSKI

cultural heritage, Indigenous peoples, queer theory, human rights

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Noble LO

comparative law, international law, legal education, motivation, gamification

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Suman LUHACH

critical theories, law and literature, academic writing, technology, language policy

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Trish LUKER

law’s documents, signatures, law’s archives, feminist legal theory

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Jani MCCUTCHEON

copyright, moral rights, literature, art, AI, intellectual property

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Carolyn MCKAY

technologies in criminal justice, visual arts, visual criminology

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Daniel MCLOUGHLIN

Agamben, Schmitt, authoritarianism, neoliberalism, Marxism, constituent power

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Chantal MCNAUGHT

legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession

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Shaun MCVEIGH

jurisprudence, jurisography, conduct of office, jurisdictional thinking

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Engi MESSIH

criminal law/evidence law, double jeopardy exceptions, marginalised communities and groups, marginalisation of Indigenous communities in the justice system

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Elyse METHVEN

offensive language, criminal law, penalty notices

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Jan MIHAL

jurisprudence, philosophy, emerging tech

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Panu MINKKINEN

law, humanities, space, power, political theory

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Dale MITCHELL

cultural legal studies, law and popular culture, civil procedure, law and technology, critical gambling studies

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Maria Federica (Marica) MOSCATI

dispute resolution, human rights (with focus on children’s rights and the rights of queer people), dance/law, comparative legal studies, hormones and the law

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Richard (Rick) MOHR

semiotics, urbanism, political philosophy, science, technology

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Emily MUIR

law, Japanese popular culture, youth justice

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Sean MULCAHY

performance, theatre, art, human rights, drugs, LGBTQIA+

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Elyse METHVEN

offensive language, criminal law, penalty notices

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Ines MZALI

migration, international law, literature, postcolonial/ decolonial studies, international relations

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Dhiraj NAINANI

legal geography, international law, law and the urban, Asian law, law and surveillance

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S. NIVEDITA

public international law, energy, nuclear, intersections between areas & disciplines

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Katie O’BRYAN

Indigenous legal rights, water, rights of nature, native title

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Claerwen O’HARA

international law, queer theory, feminist theory, alternative internationalisms, human rights, political economy

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Matthew OGDEN

cultural legal studies, video games, horror, law and technology, law and art

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Lucia Meilin ORIANA

international law and politics, international criminal law and film studies

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Manjo OYSON

social licence to operate, CSR, entrepreneurship, management

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Tamsin Philippa PAIGE

sociology; international law; law and society; queer theory; security

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Alice PALMER

environmental law, international law, law and visual

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Maree PARDY

gender, culture, bodies, law, emotion, global

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Connal PARSLEY

legal theory and technology, automated decision-making, technosocial ecologies, evaluation, humanities, prefigurative methods

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Ashley PEARSON

cultural legal studies, law and video games, law and virtual reality, law and fandom

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Kencho PELDON

intellectual property law, legal history, plants, agriculture, supply chain, biopolitics

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Alessandro PELIZZON

ecological jurisprudence, legal theory, rights of nature, legal anthropology

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Timothy PETERS

cultural legal studies, law and film, law and comics, corporate theory, political technology, corporate technology

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Kaitlyn POOLE

popular culture, social justice, creative methodologies

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Jack QUIRK

history and theory of the novel, law and literature, modernism, legal history, property, social epistemology

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Elizabeth RAJAPAKSHE

cultural legal studies, law and literature, law and popular culture, law and gender, ethics of care, feminist jurisprudence

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Luis Gómez ROMERO

jurisprudence, human rights, cultural legal studies, Latin America

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Meribah ROSE

cultural criminology, cultural legal studies, miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, police accountability

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Peter D. RUSH

jurisprudence, criminal law, place, literature, film

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Zoe M. SAVITSKY

corporate theory, corporate accountability, legal personhood, socio-legal studies, feminist theory

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Jocelynne Annette SCUTT

environmental law, fashion law, sex/gender

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Kate SEEAR

alcohol and other drugs, gender, health and addiction, drug-related stigma, feminist theory, more-than-human approaches

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Cassandra SHARP

cultural legal studies, social media, legal storytelling, affective legal narratives

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Danish SHEIKH

queer theory, theatre, jurisprudence, performance, popular culture, sexuality

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Huachen SHI

legal consciousness, human rights, children rights, women rights, law and film

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Ming-chun SINN

interdisciplinary research, legal (auto)ethnography and narrative inquiry, postmodernism and deconstructionism, comparative law, law, music, religion, history, and sexualities

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