Contributors

Amanda Alford is a legal officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). During her time at the ALRC she has worked on a number of significant inquiries, including in relation to family violence and mature age workforce participation.

Bruce Baer Arnold teaches law at the University of Canberra. His research interests centre on privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property and identity. He is general editor of the Privacy Law Bulletin and has written extensively in legal and other publications regarding biometrics, consumer protection, white collar crime, online child safety, life sciences patents and other matters. He blogs at barnoldlaw.blogspot.com.

Lorana Bartels (BA LLB LLM (UNSW) PhD (UTas) GDLP) is a senior Lecturer in the school of Law and Justice at the University of Canberra. She is a member of the Australian Capital Territory Law Society Criminal Law Committee and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Committee of Management. Lorana has published over 40 research papers on a range of criminal justice issues, including sentencing law, and women and indigenous people in the criminal justice system. Her first book, Qualitative Criminology: Stories from the Field (co-edited with Kelly Richards) was released in 2011.

Wendy Bonython is an Assistant Professor in law at the University of Canberra. She has a PhD in molecular medicine, and her research interests include medical law, mental health law, and torts.

Professor Rosalind Croucher BA(Hons) LLB PhD AMusA FRSA FACLM(Hon) FAAL TEP was appointed to the Australian Law Reform Commission in February 2007, and in December 2009 as President, after a distinguished period of 25 years in University teaching and management, including as Dean of Law at Macquarie University (November 1999— February 2007), where she still holds a Chair.

Dr Dalma Demeter is an academic at the University of Canberra, teaching and researching international arbitration, international sales law and legal education. Dalma has a truly international background, encompassing both civil law and common law education and practice, being a member of several professional organisations, and arbitrating at the Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in both in Hong Kong and Vienna every year. Her academic work and contribution to legal education have been recognised by several awards and her research is strongly connected to her teaching.

Mirjana Drenovak-Ivanovic (Mag. iur., PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. She was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law (Research topics: comparative and global environmental law; access to justice in environmental matters), visiting researcher at the Institut fur Rechts — und Sozialwissenschaften, Universitat Hohenheim in Stuttgart (Research topic: German environmental law), visiting researcher at the Faculte de droit International et Europeen de UUniversite Nice-Sophia Antipolis (Research topics: French environmental law; Court of Justice of the European Union and environmental protection).

Professor Patricia Easteal AM, PhD is a legal academic, author and advocate at the School of Law, University of Canberra.. She investigates justice and the law, specifically in the areas of criminal law, family law, discrimination law, employment law and immigration law. She has published 15 books and over 150 academic journal articles with a primary focus on access to justice for women.

Anthony Hopkins is an ACT Barrister and a Professional Associate at the University of Canberra, where he has taught since 2008. Anthony’s teaching and research interests lie in criminal law, evidence law, advocacy and Indigenous Australians and the law, drawing upon his current practice and his past experience as a criminal defence lawyer at the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service and the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission.

Keziah Judd is a PhD candidate in the School of Law at the University of Canberra and a legal policy officer with the ACT Government. Her PhD is on feminism, sexual harassment law and the media. She is the co-author, with Professor Patricia Easteal, of ‘He Said She Said: Credibility and Sexual Harassment Cases in Australia’ (2008) 31(5) Women's Studies International Forum 336 and ‘Sexual Harassment on Trial — the DJs Case’ (2012) 36(4) Alternative Law Journal, with Professor Patricia Easteal, Skye Saunders and Bruce Arnold.

Jessica Kennedy is a lawyer at Farrar Gesini Dunn Family & Collaborative Law. She is in the final stages of her PhD, which looked at the impact and effectiveness of procedural changes aimed at protecting sexual assault victims throughout the criminal justice process. Jessica's Honours thesis looked at sentencing in sexual assault cases by relationship between victim and perpetrator. Jessica has authored/co-authored various articles and book chapters in this area.

The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG was a Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009). He earlier served as President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-95) and inaugural Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84). In the ALRC he led the project on defamation law reform and privacy protection in Australian law.

Tony Krone PhD is Associate Dean Education Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra. He does research in the area of transnational crime such as the on-line trade in precursor chemicals and cyber security, cyber crime particularly related to children, criminal law, and has looked at formal and informal justice mechanisms to promote lasting peace in Asia and the Pacific region.

Wendy Kukulies-Smith is a Teaching Fellow at the ANU College of Law. Wendy lectures in Criminal Law and Procedure. In addition, she specialises in sentencing law and works with the National Judicial College of Australia on the Commonwealth Sentencing Database. Her research interests include the re-examination of notorious criminal cases from colonial Australia, mercy in sentencing, and the development of practice and principles within the Criminal Justice system. She is undertaking a PhD at the ANU entitled Punishing Parents: Mercy, Motherhood and Individual Justice in the Australian Sentencing Landscape.

Christina Ashley Lewis completed a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws with Honours at the University of Canberra. Her Honours thesis was on Aboriginality and its impact, if any, on the sentencing process in the Australian Capital Territory. She also undertook a course on International Criminal Law at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands in 2011. Since being admitted into the legal profession in December 2012 Ms Lewis has commenced practicing at Baker Deane & Nutt, Lawyers.

Skye Masters is a final year BA/LLB Honours student at the University of Canberra. She has authored/co-authored articles in the field of privacy law and is a member of the editorial board of the Alternative Law Journal, after having been a student editor of the Canberra Law Review.

Thilini Perera is a University of Canberra Law (Honours) Graduate. Her honours thesis topic was international investment arbitration. Thilini’s specific area of interest is international commercial arbitration law. She represented the University of Canberra at the prestigious Willem C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Hong Kong in 2012. Thilini currently works as the Company Secretary of a leading not-for- profit organisation in Australia while completing her Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and hopes to be admitted as a solicitor in June this year.

Dr Susan Priest is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. She is also a legal practitioner in the ACT. Susan teaches the foundation law units in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her particular research interests are in the areas of Australian legal history, colonial criminal law, and some human rights issues. Susan has given a number of seminars and conference presentations in these areas as well as published in several books and peer reviewed journal articles.

Skye Saunders is a lecturer in the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law. She teaches primarily in the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice in units such as Legal Ethics, but also lectures in Foundations of Australian Law. Skye also teaches at the University of Canberra. Prior to joining the ANU, Skye practised as a solicitor, working on a diverse range of matters and developing a particular interest in the areas of discrimination and employment relations law. Skye is currently also pursuing doctoral research at the University of Canberra, the title of which is Whispers from the Bush: The Sexual Harassment of Australian Rural Women at Work.

Margaret Thornton is a Professor of Law at the Australian National University. She has degrees from Sydney, New South Wales and Yale. She is a Barrister of the High Court of Australia, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Lorraine Walker has degrees in Arts and Law from University of Sydney, started her Masters twice was (and remains) an officer in the RAAF, has been a Crown Prosecutor in the UK, a solicitor, a partner in a firm, a barrister and is now Chief Magistrate and Chief Coroner of the ACT. She has a particular interest in health law (especially mental health) and death law.

Helen Watchirs OAM was appointed as the ACT Human Rights & Discrimination Commissioner in 2004. She has supervised the handling of about 1000 discrimination cases, as well as conducting Human Rights Audits of detention facilities. Dr Watchirs has over 30 years’ experience as a human rights lawyer working for Federal Government agencies, and several United Nations agencies, including UNAIDS, WHO, ILO, UNDP and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her PhD and Masters focus on HIV/AIDS human rights issues. She is a member of the Federal Ministerial Advisory Council on Blood Borne Viruses & STIs, and the Organ and Tissue Advisory Council.