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.