Academic Writing
“An exemplary contribution to sensory and material jurisprudential practices and a bold approach to engaging with legal texts and materials and the lives entwined in them ...”
Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia citation for my paper ‘Contracting Love’, which won the Association’s Postgraduate Paper Prize in 2022.
My recent publications explore questions around the use of theatre as a method in legal research and as a tool in legal pedagogy, the practice of storytelling in strategic litigation, and practices of critical reading that might help us live in a world of escalating crises. This research has been published in journals across Australia (Australian Feminist Law Journal and Law Text Culture), the United States (Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and Harvard Kennedy School LGBTQ Policy Journal), India (Socio-Legal Review and Economic and Political Weekly) and the UK (Law and Critique).
For a complete list of my publications, please refer to my CV.
Law Text Culture
Legal Theatre: Staging Critique in the Law School
Australian Feminist Law Journal
A Tale of Two Judgments: The Afterlives of a Defeat and Victory for Queer Rights in India
HKS LGBTQ Policy Journal
Litigating India’s Anti- Sodomy Law
Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Coming Up ….
I’m currently in the process of revising my PhD thesis into a monograph. This project examines the capacity of law to conduct repair, through learning from activities of legal dissent. More on this soon!
Meanwhile, I’ve been exploring what queer reparative thinking might offer to the discourse on climate justice and how it might help us understand creative tactics through which extractivism is resisted. That’s the subject of a paper I’m currently working on with Dr. Arpitha Kodiveri, Assistant Professor at Vassar College. We presented a first draft at the Law and Extractivism Conference at La Trobe in 2023.
I’m also channelling my Taylor Swift obsession into a paper exploring the jurisprudence of Swift’s album Folklore. Excited to be presenting this work at the exquisitely titled Swiftposium in Melbourne, in February 2024.