La Trobe Law School news and events
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Professor Luis Eslava joins La Trobe
Award-winning international law Professor joins La Trobe University
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La Trobe researchers win funding to aid future discoveries
La Trobe researchers win funding to aid future discoveries
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Law rankings wrap up
The La Trobe Law School has produced outstanding rankings and ratings for its subjects, student experience and graduate outcomes
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Professor Fiona Kelly re-appointed to VARTA
Professor Fiona Kelly has been re-appointed to the Board of the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority
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Community focus
Meet Emilia Sterjova, a Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Global Studies and a Diploma in Languages (Indonesian) student
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Meet our Law and Criminology students
Students in the La Trobe Law School are preparing to make a difference in their local and global communities
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Mooting sets students up for success
The Law Trobe Law School’s mooting program equips students with the practical skills they need to excel in their future careers
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Promoting just and equitable societies
Research in the La Trobe Law School is driving law reform in Australia and overseas
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Help a student build a new life at La Trobe
After being displaced by war, a scholarship gave Juris Doctor student Philip the chance to build a new life at La Trobe. Today, he’s on track to achieve his goal of practising law in Australia.
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A service built on care and respect
The La Trobe Law School is partnering with Prace on a Community Forms and Advocacy Assistance Service (FAAS) based in Reservoir, Melbourne
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Transformational partnerships
Chris Maylea is a social worker, lawyer and Associate Professor of Law, who specialises in law in the context of health and welfare
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Graduate research in the La Trobe Law School
Our graduate researchers are investigating law in its social context to promote equity, justice and access
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Donor conception laws challenge family relationships
Victoria’s world-first donor conception laws challenge relationships between donor-conceived adults and their parents
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Investigating virtual autopsies
Dr Marc Trabsky is investigating how forensic imaging technology impacts coronial investigations in Australia
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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 2022, we are exploring texts that consider intersections between subjectivity and matter, the human/inhuman, and the idea of the inhumanities as jurisgenerative.
We are associated with and share common intellectual and activist pursuits with the La Trobe Climate Network.
The group is convened by Dr Kathleen Birrell and meets online.
Please email Kathleen Birrell to RSVP and for access to the reading resources.
*Image by Jason deCaires Taylor @jasondecairestaylor
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All events
Semester 1, 2022
Margaret Davies, ‘A New Legal Materialism’ in Law Unlimited: Materialism, Pluralism, and Legal Theory (2017) 56-73.
Hyo Yoon Kang, ‘Law’s Materiality: Between Concrete Matters and Abstract Forms, or How Matter Becomes Material’ in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed), Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory (2021) 453-474.
Barad, Part I
Karen Barad, ‘Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter’ in Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) 132-153.
Barad, Part II
Karen Barad, ‘Agential Realism: How Material-Discursive Practices Matter’ in Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) 153-185.
Jana Norman, ‘Introducing the Cosmic Person’ in Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene (2021) 114-156.
Astrida Neimanis, ‘Alongside the Right to Water, a Posthumanist Feminist Imaginary’(2014) 5(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 5-24.
Marie-Catherine Petersmann, ‘Response-abilities of Care in More-than-Human Worlds’ (2021) 12 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 102-124.
Semester 2, 2022
Federico Luisetti, ‘Geopower: On the States of Nature of Late Capitalism’ (2018) European Journal of Social Theory 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431018803764
Ingrid Diran and Antoine Traisnel, ‘The Poetics of Geopower: Climate Change and the Politics of Representation’ in Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, Jeff Diamanti (eds), Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene (2020) 123-137.
Povinelli Part I
Elizabeth Povinelli, ‘Introduction’ and ‘The Four Axioms of Existence’ in Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (2021) 1-11 and 15-35.
Povinelli Part II
Elizabeth Povinelli, ‘Toxic Late Liberalism’ in Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (2021) 36-59.
Kathryn Yusoff, ‘Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time’ in Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, Jeff Diamanti (eds), Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene (2020) 98-120.
Andrea Marston, ‘Of Flesh and Ore: Material Histories and Embodied Geologies’ (2021) 111(7) Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2078-2095, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1884524
Watch Marston present her work here: https://youtu.be/RM6ZD6tEPDM
Margaret Davies, Lee Godden and Nicole Graham, 'Situating Property Within Habitat: Reintegrating Place, People, and the Law' (2021) 6 Journal of Law, Property and Society 13-37.