La Trobe Law School news and events
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La Trobe Law School's first graduates return to campus
The inaugural class of the La Trobe Law School recently returned to campus for a morning tea and tour of the Bundoora campus with Dean, Professor Fiona Kelly.
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Researchers awarded combined $2.67m DECRA funding
La Trobe researchers awarded combined $2.67m DECRA funding
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Law School's mooting success
The secret to the success of the La Trobe Law School’s mooting program can be attributed to the partnership between the School, the Law Students’ Association and alumni
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What does history tell us about referendums?
An upcoming lecture will provide historic context
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Victims were right about robodebt all along
Let the royal commission change the way we talk about welfare
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Expectations: Robodebt Royal Commission report
What can we expect from the robodebt royal commission’s final report?
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Top improver in QS World University Rankings
Top improver among Australia’s top 20 universities
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La Trobe Law School alumni give back through student prizes
The La Trobe Law School recently held their inaugural prize ceremony.
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La Trobe Law School celebrates 30 years with our alumni
More than 200 alumni gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of La Trobe University Law School.
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Royal commission exposes Robodebt
royal commission exposes robodebt as ethically indefensible policy
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Law students to compete in Vis Moot
The La Trobe Law School’s moot team – Emma Hollis, Emma Lappin and Uday Sharma – are set to compete in the Vis Moot in Hong Kong in March
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The Inhuman in the Human: Laws for the Anthropocene - Workshop
You are invited to participate in a La Trobe Law School workshop featuring Professor Margaret Davies.
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The Inhuman in the Human: Laws for the Anthropocene - Early Career Masterclass
Early Career Academics are invited to participate in a masterclass, to develop works in progress and to engage with the work of Professor Margaret Davies.
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La Trobe strengthens partnerships in India
La Trobe cements partnerships with Indian industry and universities
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Law & Extractivism In The Anthropocene
This workshop brings together established and emerging scholars to explore the relationship between law and extractivism in the Anthropocene
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Anthropocene Reading Group - Infrastructure and Non-human Life: A Wider Ontology
Tuesday 03 October 01:00pm
We invite you to join an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional reading group, focused on encounters between laws and different scholarly traditions in the context of the Anthropocene. -
Anthropocene Reading Group - Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking
Tuesday 17 October 01:00pm
We invite you to join an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional reading group, focused on encounters between laws and different scholarly traditions in the context of the Anthropocene. -
Anthropocene Reading Group - The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Legal Order
Tuesday 31 October 01:00pm
We invite you to join an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional reading group, focused on encounters between laws and different scholarly traditions in the context of the Anthropocene.
Fortnightly, Tuesdays 1-2pm AEST
We invite you to join an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional reading group, focused on encounters between laws and different scholarly traditions in the context of the Anthropocene. In 2023, we are exploring texts that consider relationships between law and the inhuman, law in/as nature, and more-than-human communities and relations.
In Semester 1 2023, our readings include a focus on the work of Professor Margaret Davies, in anticipation of a Workshop and Masterclass at La Trobe Law School on 20-21 July 2023. Stay tuned for details.
We are associated with and share common intellectual and activist pursuits with the La Trobe Climate Network.
The group is co-convened by Roanna McClelland and Dr Kathleen Birrell. We meet fortnightly, online.
Upcoming Event
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Anthropocene Reading Group - Infrastructure and Non-human Life: A Wider Ontology
Tuesday 03 October 01:00pm
We invite you to join an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional reading group, focused on encounters between laws and different scholarly traditions in the context of the Anthropocene.
All events
Semester 1, 2023
Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski, ‘What is Planetary Social Thought?’ in Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences (2021) 77-99.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘The Difficulty of Being Modern’ in The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021) 95-113.
Kyle McGee, Excerpt from ‘Between Facticity and Normativity’ in Bruno Latour: The Normativity of Networks (2014) 1-20.
Karen Barad, ‘Spacetime Re(con)figurings: Naturalcultural Forces and Changing Topologies of Power’ in Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007).
Karen Barad and Daniela Gandorfer, ‘Political Desirings: Yearnings for Mattering (,) Differently’ (Jan 2021) Theory & Event 24(1) 14-66.
Davies, Part I
Margaret Davies, ‘A New Living Law’ in EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature (2022) 16-37.
Davies, Part II
Margaret Davies, ‘Geolaw as Flow and Stasis’ and ‘Law, Nature, and Legal Theory’ in EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature (2022) 72-87; 88-103.
Semester 2, 2023
Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes, ‘The Anthropocene as an Age of Scalar Complexity’ in Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes(eds), Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity (2022) 1-20.
Sally A Marston, John Paul Jones III and Keith Woodward, ‘Human Geography Without Scale’ (Dec 2005) 30(4) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 416-432.
Adeline Johns-Putra, ‘“We Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure”: Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the Anthropocene’ in Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes(eds), Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene: Imagining Human Responsibility in an Age of Scalar Complexity (2022) 127-142.
Doreen Massey, ‘Opening Propositions’ and ‘The Elusiveness of Place’ in For Space (2005) 9-16; 130-142.
Interesting Massey Interview: https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2013/02/podcastdoreen-massey-on-space/
Maan Barua, ‘Infrastructure and Non-human Life: A Wider Ontology’ Progress in Human Geography (2021) 46(6), 1–23.
Philip Steinberg and Kimberley Peters, ‘Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking’ (2015) 33 Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 247-264.
[Excerpt] Joanne Yao, The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Legal Order (forthcoming).