2022 winners
PHD AWARD
- Dr Lauren Butterly (UNSW & UWA) for her thesis entitled Reconciling Indigenous and settler-state assertions of sovereignty over sea country in Australia’s Northern Territory.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER (ECR) AWARD
- Dr Jane Kotzmann (Deakin) for the article entitled Recognising the sentience of animals in law: A justification and framework for Australian states and territories; and
- Rebecca Barber (University of Queensland) for the article entitled An exploration of the General Assembly’s troubled relationship with unilateral sanctions.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER (GENERAL) AWARD
- Dr Ian Field (University of Queensland) for the article entitled The problem with provocation in trespass.
BOOK AWARD
- Associate Professor Ntina Tzouvala (ANU) for her book Capitalism as civilisation: A history of international law.
Honourable mentions also go to Dr Amelia Thorpe, Dr Esme Shirlow and Dr Kathryn Greenman.
NON‐TRADITIONAL RESEARCH OUTPUT AWARD
- Associate Professor Jane Wangmann, Professor Tracey Booth and Miranda Kaye (UTS) for the report entitled “No straight lines”: Self-represented litigants in family law proceedings involving allegations about family violence; and
- Professor Katherine Biber (UTS) for the podcast entitled The last outlaws. Collaborators include: Aunty Loretta Parsley (Governor family historian) Leroy Parsons (Governor descendant, narrator, co-writer) Emma Lancaster (executive producer) Kaitlyn Sawrey (host, writer, senior producer) Francisco Lopez (writer, senior producer, composer, sound engineer) Allison Chan (producer, researcher) Prof Daryle Rigney (cultural consultant) Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker (cultural consultant) Ben Vozzo (digital communications) Belinda Lopez (editorial advisor) Jake Duczynski (digital animator) Martin Peralta (sound engineer).
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT LEGAL RESEARCH MEDAL
- Professor Ian Ramsay (University of Melbourne).
2022 Shortlists
Congratulations to the researchers set out below for being shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Legal Research Awards.
PHD AWARD
| Ashraful Azad | Migrant agency in the global south: The movements of Rohingya in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Malaysia |
| Eliana Close | Navigating conflicts about life-sustaining treatment in a health system with limited resources: Reconciling law, policy and practice |
| Lauren Butterly | Reconciling Indigenous and settler-state assertions of sovereignty over sea country in Australia’s Northern Territory |
| Robert Rado | Trading in people and trading in services: The political economy of Indians’ international labour mobility, the development project and international law |
| Sandy Jackson | The power of activism: Creating legal and social change for children in immigration detention |
ARTICLE/CHAPTER (ECR) AWARD
| Ben Mostyn | Deadly serious: The United Nations, drugs, and capital punishment in the 1980s |
| Jane Kotzmann | Recognising the sentience of animals in law: A justification and framework for Australian states and territories |
| Zofia Bednarz and Kayleen Manwaring | Keeping the (good) faith: implications of emerging technologies for consumer insurance contracts |
| Natalie Silver and Ben Chen | Undue influence and will substitutes: Vitiating transactions that blur the boundaries between life and death |
| Neha Mishra | International trade law meets data ethics: A brave new world |
| Nicholas Tiverios | Accuracy, utility and gateways: Justifications(?) for controlling the use of surrounding circumstances in contractual interpretation |
| Rebecca Barber | An exploration of the General Assembly’s troubled relationship with unilateral sanctions |
| Shireen Morris | Love in the High Court: Implications for Indigenous constitutional recognition |
| Shiri Krebs | The invisible frames affecting wartime investigations: legal epistemology, metaphors, and cognitive biases |
ARTICLE/CHAPTER (GENERAL) AWARD
| Nicole Graham and David A. Pittavino | Bauxite and boundaries: 50 years since Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17 FLR 141. |
| Iain Field | The problem with provocation in trespass |
| Inbar Levy and Andrew Higgins | What the fair minded observer really thinks about judicial impartiality |
| Michael Duffy, Andrew Coleman and Matt Nichol | Mapping changes in the access to civil justice of average Australians: An analysis and empirical survey |
| James Stellios | Constitutional characterisation: embedding value judgements about the relationship between the legislature and the judiciary |
| Elise Bant and Jeannie Marie Paterson | Systems of misconduct: Corporate culpability and statutory unconscionability |
| Paula Gerber and Aaron Timoshanko | Is the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Doing Enough to Protect the Rights of LGBT Children and Children with Same-Sex Parents? |
| Robert Mullins | Presupposing legal authority |
BOOK AWARD
| Amelia Thorpe | Owning the street: The everyday life of property |
| Anne Carter | Proportionality and facts in constitutional adjudication |
| Cassandra Sharp | Hashtag jurisprudence: Terror and legality on Twitter |
| Esmé Shirlow | Judging at the interface: Deference to state decision-making authority in international adjudication |
| Kathryn Greenman | State responsibility and rebels: The history and legacy of protecting investment against revolution |
| Ntina Tzouvala | Capitalism as civilisation: A history of international law |
| Stacie Strong | Legal reasoning across commercial disputes: comparing judicial and arbitral analyses |
NON‐TRADITIONAL RESEARCH OUTPUT AWARD
| David Kinley and Kym Sheehan | Financial services human rights benchmark |
| Ramona Vijeyarasa | Gender legislative index |
| Jacqueline Peel, Hari Osofsky, Brett McDonnell, Anita Foerster and Rebekkah Markey-Towler | Corporate energy transition: Legal tools for shifting companies towards clean energy practices |
| Jane Wangmann, Tracey Booth and Miranda Kaye | “No straight lines”: Self-represented litigants in family law proceedings involving allegations about family violence |
| Katherine Biber Collaborators: Aunty Loretta Parsley (Governor family historian) Leroy Parsons (Governor descendant, narrator, co-writer) Emma Lancaster (executive producer) Kaitlyn Sawrey (host, writer, senior producer) Francisco Lopez (writer, senior producer, composer, sound engineer) Allison Chan (producer, researcher) Prof Daryle Rigney (cultural consultant) Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker (cultural consultant) Ben Vozzo (digital communications) Belinda Lopez (editorial advisor) Jake Duczynski (digital animator) Martin Peralta (sound engineer) | The last outlaws |
2020 winners
LAW PUN OF THE YEAR
- Mr Stephen McDonald (Edmund Barton Chambers)
PHD AWARD
- Dr Brad Jessup (ANU) for his thesis entitled A New Justice for Australian Environmental Law.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER (ECR) AWARD
- Dr Fady Aoun (University of Sydney) for the article entitled Whitewashing Australia’s History of Stigmatising Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery.
ARTICLE/CHAPTER (GENERAL) AWARD
- Professor Michael Legg (UNSW Sydney) for the article co‐authored with Mr Samuel Hickey (LLM candidate, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA) entitled Finality and Fairness in Australian Class Action Settlements.
BOOK AWARD
- Professor Katherine Biber (UTS, Sydney) for her book In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence; and
- Professor Desmond Manderson (ANU) for his book Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts.
NON‐TRADITIONAL RESEARCH OUTPUT AWARD
- Dr Michael Grewcock and Dr Vicki Sentas (UNSW Sydney) for their report entitled Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police; and
- Associate Professor Stella Tarrant (UWA) for the report co‐authored with Professor Julia Tolmie (University of Auckland) and Mr George Giudice (Principal, George Giudice Law Chambers) entitled Transforming Legal Understandings of Intimate Partner Violence.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT LEGAL RESEARCH MEDAL
- Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley, ANU.
See details of the 2020 ALRA Prize Winners and Award Ceremony.
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