2022 Australian Legal Research Awards Winners

Celebrating the best of Australian Legal Research

Winners for the 2022 Australian Legal Research Awards (ALRA) have now been announced.

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).

The Australian Legal Research Awards were established in 2019 by the Council of Australian Law Deans as a prestigious national award scheme for the legal academic discipline. The ALRA Scheme encourages, recognises and promotes research excellence and innovation in the discipline of law by Australian legal scholars.  ALRA also seeks to:

  • enhance and promote the shared identity of law as a distinct academic discipline within the Australian Academy
  • create a national recognition pathway for legal academics to be able to concretely demonstrate the contribution and quality of their work
  • disseminate the diverse high‑quality research being undertaken by Australian legal academics
  • provide a visible platform to celebrate legal research that can be effectively projected beyond the legal discipline to the Australian and international Academy.

2022 Shortlists

Congratulations to the researchers set out below for being shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Legal Research Awards.

Contact ALRA

General Enquiries:  info@legalawardsaustralia.com
Application Submissions:  applications@legalawardsaustralia.com

PhD Award

The ALRA PhD Award focuses on the starting point of the contemporary academic pathway, celebrating excellence in doctoral studies.  This Award recognises research excellence in doctrinal studies by candidates who have been awarded a PhD in Law from an Australian university.

Shortlisted Finalists

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

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Article/Chapter (ECR) Award

The ALRA ECR Article/Chapter Award category recognises the contribution of early career academics in producing a discrete research output – whether journal article or book chapter.  The objective of this prize is to recognise research excellence in the publication of journal articles or book chapters which make an outstanding contribution to the legal field.

Shortlisted Finalists

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’
Kayleen Manwaring and Zofia Bednarz 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

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Article/Chapter (General) Award

The ALRA Article/Chapter Award focuses on the mainstay of academic research – the traditional research article (including book chapters in edited collections).  This Award recognises research excellence in the publication of journal articles or book chapters which make an outstanding contribution to the legal field.

Shortlisted Finalists

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
Robert Mullins Presupposing legal authority

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Book Award

The ALRA Book Award celebrates the substantial contribution that is made by the sustained in-depth analysis provided by a legal book or monograph. The objective of this prize is to recognise research excellence in the publication of a book which make an outstanding contribution to the legal field.

Shortlisted Finalists

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

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Non-Traditional Research Output Award

The ALRA Non-Traditional Research Output Award encourages, recognises and rewards research innovation that does not conform to traditional academic outputs, and might include videos, films, artistic works, blogs and software.  The objective of this prize is to recognise research excellence in the publication of non-traditional research outputs which make an outstanding contribution to the legal field.

Shortlisted Finalists

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

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Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal

The Scheme also celebrates the sustained contribution to Australian Legal Scholarship through a special Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal. This prestigious category recognises the substantial contribution of outstanding scholars to the discipline of law made over the course of at least a 25-year career.  The recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal will be awarded with a specially minted medal and an award certificate.

Shortlisted Finalists

  • Jennifer Corrin, University of Queensland
  • Denis Ong, Bond University
  • Ian Ramsay, University of Melbourne
  • Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney

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2020 Awards