Further Information
If you would like any further information about the Law and Society Hub, or are interested in becoming a member, please contact Dr Theodore Bennett.
The Law and Society Research Hub was established at the UWA Law School in 2012. The Hub provides a network for academic staff, researchers and research higher degree students who share a mutual interest in the interconnections between law and its broader social context. This includes the links that law has with cultural, politics, ideology, history, science etc.
‘Law and Society’ (also known as ‘socio-legal studies’ and ‘empirical studies in law’) is an interdisciplinary field that engages with the multitude of ways that law operates as a phenomenon within society. This field extends academic engagement with law beyond the judgements, statutes and regulations that constitute legal doctrine, and is concerned more broadly with the principles, institutions and practices of law.
Law and Society Hub members have a diversity of expertise and have backgrounds in disciplines such as criminology, cultural studies, law and legal theory. Current issues of interest for Hub members include:
Renae Barker
Theodore Bennett
Harry Blagg
Ethan Blue
Kieran Dolan
Richard Harding
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Blaze Kwaymullina
Jade Lindley
Dylan Lino
Jani McCuthceon
Fiona McGaughey
Neil Morgan
Nolan Sharkey
Hilde Tubex
Tamara Tulich
Murray Wesson
For further details of the Hub's research activities, please refer to the profile pages of individual Hub members.