ALRA

It is with great admiration and pleasure that we announce the winners of the inaugural Australian Legal Research Awards!  Following the virtual ceremony this evening that was attended by almost 90 academics from all over Australia, here are the winners in each category:

Article/Chapter (ECR) Award

• Dr Fady Aoun (The 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 (University of Technology Sydney) for her book In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence
• Professor Desmond Manderson FAAL, FASSA, FRSC (Australian National University) 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
• Associate Professor Stella Tarrant (The University of Western Australia) for the report entitled Transforming Legal Understandings of Intimate Partner Violence co-authored with Professor Julia Tolmie (The University of Auckland) and Mr George Giudice (Principal, George Giudice Law Chambers)

PhD Award

• Dr Brad Jessup (Australian National University) for his thesis entitled A New Justice for Australian Environmental Law

Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal

• Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley FAAL, Australian National University

Thank you to everyone that submitted an application in the 2020 round of the Australian Legal Research Awards – a total of 149 applications and nominations were received.  Our most deepest gratitude also to the 52 academics from the many Australian law schools that participated as chairs and members of the various assessment panels.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the following shortlisted applicants in the Book Award category:

• Professor Katherine Biber (University of Technology, Sydney) for her book In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence
• Associate Professor Melissa Crouch (UNSW Sydney) for her book The Constitution of Myanmar: A Contextual Analysis
• Professor Desmond Manderson FAAL, FASSA, FRSC (Australian National University) for his book Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts
• Professor Benjamin Richardson (University of Tasmania) for his book The Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics
• Associate Professor Nicole Rogers (Southern Cross University) for her book Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change
• Dr Marc Trabsky (La Trobe University) for his book Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions

We look forward to announcing the winners in all of the Australian Legal Research Award categories at our online awards ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 17 November 2020 (AEDT), details of which will follow shortly.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the following shortlisted applicants in the Article/Chapter (ECR) Award category:

• Dr Fady Aoun (The University of Sydney) for the article entitled Whitewashing Australia’s History of Stigmatising Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery
• Associate Professor Alysia Blackham (The University of Melbourne) for the article entitled Reconceiving Judicial Office through a Labour Law Lens
• Dr Lisa Crawford (UNSW Sydney) for the article entitled The Rule of Law in an Age of Statutes
• Ms Jacinta Dharmananda (The University of Western Australia) for the article entitled Drafting Statutes and Statutory Interpretation: Express or Assumed Rules?
• Dr Ntina Tzouvala (Australian National University [and The University of Melbourne at the time of application]) for the chapter entitled “And the Laws are Rude … Crude and Uncertain”:  Extraterritoriality and the Emergence of Territorialised Statehood in Siam.

We look forward to announcing the shortlisted applicants in the Book Award category in the very near future.

Thank you to all applicants for their effort and engagement in the Australian Legal Research Awards 2020.  It is with great pleasure that we announce the shortlisted applicants in the following award categories:

Article/Chapter (General) Award

• Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh (The University of Queensland) for the article entitled The Inherent Jurisdiction of Courts and the Fair Trial
• Mrs Susanna Dechent (Curtin University) for the article entitled Asylum Seeker Children in Nauru: Australia’s International Human Rights Obligations and Operational Realities
• Professor Michael Legg (UNSW Sydney) for the article entitled Finality and Fairness in Australian Class Action Settlements
• Professor Pauline Ridge (Australian National University) for the article entitled Challenging Conceptions of Accessory Liability in Private Law
• Professor Lisa Young (Murdoch University) for the article entitled Mature Minors and Parenting Disputes in Australia: Engaging with the Debate on Best Interests v Autonomy
• Professor Simon Young (University of Southern Queensland) for the article entitled The Increments of Justice: Exploring the Outer Reach of Akikba’s Edge Towards Native Title ‘Ownership’
  

Non-Traditional Research Output Award

• Dr Michael Grewcock and Dr Vicki Sentas (UNSW Sydney) for their report entitled Rethinking Strip Searches by NSW Police
• Dr Trish Luker (University of Technology Sydney) for her podcast entitled Reading The Signs
• Associate Professor Stella Tarrant (The University of Western Australia) for her report entitled Transforming Legal Understandings of Intimate Partner Violence
  

PhD Award

• Mr Tim Bowley (The University of Sydney) for his thesis entitled The Importance of Context: The Nature of Australian Shareholder Activism and its Regulatory Implications
• Dr Marie Hadley (UNSW Sydney) for her thesis entitled The Politics of Cultural Appropriation Claims and Law Reform
• Dr Jessica Hudson (UNSW Sydney) for her thesis entitled Assuring the Express Trust: The So-called Beneficiary’s Proprietary Claim
• Dr Brad Jessup (Australian National University) for his thesis entitled A New Justice for Australian Environmental Law
• Dr Amanda Sapienza (The University of Sydney) for her thesis entitled Principle v Practice: Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Action in Australia

Publication of the shortlisted applicants for the Article/Chapter (ECR) Award and Book Award categories will be made available in the near future.

Winners of all categories, including the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal, will be announced at the ALRA Award Ceremony to be held as an online event on the evening of Tuesday 17 November 2020 (AEDST).  To register your interest to attend the ceremony, please contact Vi Kacevska.