Social Sciences
Lecturer in Law
email: [email protected]
tel: (+44) (0)1227 827112
fax: (+44) (0)1227 827831
PERSONAL PROFILE
BA LLB (Hons.), Macquarie University, Sydney,1993; LLM ( Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, 1996; Ph.D, Birkbeck, University of London, 2005.
Previously, Associate to Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, 1994-5, Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1997; Legal Officer, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, South Australia, 1998; Lecturer in Public Law and Regulation, Lancaster University, 2003; joined Kent Law School in 2004.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Constitutional and Administrative Law, Land Law, Legal Theory.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sovereignty, Postcolonial theory, indigenous land rights and self-determination, law and war, social movements, globalization, theories of democracy, political philosophy.
Refereed Publications
Edited Book
S. Motha (ed.) (2007) Democracy?s Empire: Sovereignty, Law and Violence (Blackwell, London). ISBN: 9781405163132
Also published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Law and Society, (2007) Vol: 34/1 pp. 1-161, ISSN: 0263-323X.
Edited Journal Special Issue
S. Motha (ed.) (2002) (with C. Perrin), ?Deposing Sovereignty after Mabo?, Special Issue of the Journal Law and Critique, Vol: 13(3). pp. 231-338. ISSN: 0957-8536
Journal Articles
S. Motha, (2007) ?Veiled Women and the Affect of Religion in Democracy? Vol: 34/1 Journal of Law and Society 138 ? 161. ISSN: 0263-323X. ACCESS FULL TEXT.
S. Motha, (2005) ?The Failure of Postcolonial Sovereignty in Australia? Vol: 22 Australian Feminist Law Journal 107 ? 125. ISSN: 1320-0968. ACCESS FULL TEXT.
S. Motha, (2003) (with T. Zartaloudis), ?Law, Ethics and the Utopian End of Human Rights? 12(2) Social and Legal Studies. (Article length review of C. Douzinas, The End of Human Rights. 2000, Hart Publishing). pp. 243-68. ISSN: 0964 6639 (033089)
S. Motha, (2002) ?The Sovereign Event in a Nation?s Law? 13 Law and Critique 311-338. ISSN: 0957-8536
S. Motha, (1998) ?Mabo: Encountering the Epistemic Limit of the Recognition ?Difference?? 7 Griffith Law Review 79?96.
Book Chapters
S. Motha, (2007) ?Reconciliation as Domination? in Scott Veitch (ed.) Law and the Politics of Reconciliation (Ashgate) pp. 69-93 ISBN: 978-0-7546-4924-3.
S. Motha (2007) in press, ?Spectres of Communism in Post-apartheid South Africa? in K. van Marle and W. le Roux (eds) Post-apartheid Fragments (Pretoria: UNISA Press).
S. Motha, (2006) ?Guantanamo Bay, ?Abandoned Being?, and the Constitution of Jurisdiction? in Shaun McVeigh (ed.) Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction (Routledge, London). pp. 63-83, ISBN: 1-84472-032-2.
S. Motha (2006), ?Soberanía ?Postcolonial? y el Evento de la Pluralidad? [Spanish Translation of ??Postcolonial? Sovereignty and the Event of Plurality?] in Correas, Oscar (coordinator) Pluralismo Jurídico. Nuevos Horizontes, , en coedicióne entre la Editorial Coyoacan de la Ciudad de México y la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
Forthcoming
S. Motha, ?The Political Theology of Democracy?, commissioned article for the Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities, publication in January, 2008.
S. Motha, ?From Ubuntu to a Jurisprudence of Sacrifice in Post-Apartheid South Africa?
Book Review
S.Motha, ?A Methodology for Research on Colonised Peoples and the Law? (1998) 11 Australian Feminist Law Journal. Review of Jeannine Purdy, Common Law and Colonised Peoples: Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia?. (1997, Ashgate). pp. 173 ? 181.
- Ratna Kapur
Ratna Kapur is the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, and on the Faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. She is also a part of the Global Law Faculty at NYU School of Law. She is currently on...
- Gail Pearson
Gail Pearson Room 514 H69 - The Economics and Business Building The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia 2007Journal Article/s Pearson G 2007 'Consumer Law in the 21st century: Challenges and Opportunities', Competition and Consumer Law Journal,...
- Jayanth K Krishnan
William Mitchell College of Law Publications: Articles and Essays "Toward the Next Generation of Galanter-Influenced Scholars: The Reach of a Law-and-Society Founder." Law and Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2008). With Stewart Macaulay. "Scholarly...
- Roshan De Silva-wijeyeratne
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - [email protected] to the Law and Social Sciences Research Network. Roshan joined the Law School from the University of East London (UK) in 2001....
- Bronwen Morgan
Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow...
Social Sciences
Stewart Motha
Lecturer in Law
email: [email protected]
tel: (+44) (0)1227 827112
fax: (+44) (0)1227 827831
PERSONAL PROFILE
BA LLB (Hons.), Macquarie University, Sydney,1993; LLM ( Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, 1996; Ph.D, Birkbeck, University of London, 2005.
Previously, Associate to Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, 1994-5, Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1997; Legal Officer, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, South Australia, 1998; Lecturer in Public Law and Regulation, Lancaster University, 2003; joined Kent Law School in 2004.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Constitutional and Administrative Law, Land Law, Legal Theory.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sovereignty, Postcolonial theory, indigenous land rights and self-determination, law and war, social movements, globalization, theories of democracy, political philosophy.
Refereed Publications
Edited Book
S. Motha (ed.) (2007) Democracy?s Empire: Sovereignty, Law and Violence (Blackwell, London). ISBN: 9781405163132
Also published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Law and Society, (2007) Vol: 34/1 pp. 1-161, ISSN: 0263-323X.
Edited Journal Special Issue
S. Motha (ed.) (2002) (with C. Perrin), ?Deposing Sovereignty after Mabo?, Special Issue of the Journal Law and Critique, Vol: 13(3). pp. 231-338. ISSN: 0957-8536
Journal Articles
S. Motha, (2007) ?Veiled Women and the Affect of Religion in Democracy? Vol: 34/1 Journal of Law and Society 138 ? 161. ISSN: 0263-323X. ACCESS FULL TEXT.
S. Motha, (2005) ?The Failure of Postcolonial Sovereignty in Australia? Vol: 22 Australian Feminist Law Journal 107 ? 125. ISSN: 1320-0968. ACCESS FULL TEXT.
S. Motha, (2003) (with T. Zartaloudis), ?Law, Ethics and the Utopian End of Human Rights? 12(2) Social and Legal Studies. (Article length review of C. Douzinas, The End of Human Rights. 2000, Hart Publishing). pp. 243-68. ISSN: 0964 6639 (033089)
S. Motha, (2002) ?The Sovereign Event in a Nation?s Law? 13 Law and Critique 311-338. ISSN: 0957-8536
S. Motha, (1998) ?Mabo: Encountering the Epistemic Limit of the Recognition ?Difference?? 7 Griffith Law Review 79?96.
Book Chapters
S. Motha, (2007) ?Reconciliation as Domination? in Scott Veitch (ed.) Law and the Politics of Reconciliation (Ashgate) pp. 69-93 ISBN: 978-0-7546-4924-3.
S. Motha (2007) in press, ?Spectres of Communism in Post-apartheid South Africa? in K. van Marle and W. le Roux (eds) Post-apartheid Fragments (Pretoria: UNISA Press).
S. Motha, (2006) ?Guantanamo Bay, ?Abandoned Being?, and the Constitution of Jurisdiction? in Shaun McVeigh (ed.) Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction (Routledge, London). pp. 63-83, ISBN: 1-84472-032-2.
S. Motha (2006), ?Soberanía ?Postcolonial? y el Evento de la Pluralidad? [Spanish Translation of ??Postcolonial? Sovereignty and the Event of Plurality?] in Correas, Oscar (coordinator) Pluralismo Jurídico. Nuevos Horizontes, , en coedicióne entre la Editorial Coyoacan de la Ciudad de México y la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
Forthcoming
S. Motha, ?The Political Theology of Democracy?, commissioned article for the Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities, publication in January, 2008.
S. Motha, ?From Ubuntu to a Jurisprudence of Sacrifice in Post-Apartheid South Africa?
Book Review
S.Motha, ?A Methodology for Research on Colonised Peoples and the Law? (1998) 11 Australian Feminist Law Journal. Review of Jeannine Purdy, Common Law and Colonised Peoples: Studies in Trinidad and Western Australia?. (1997, Ashgate). pp. 173 ? 181.
- Ratna Kapur
Ratna Kapur is the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, and on the Faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. She is also a part of the Global Law Faculty at NYU School of Law. She is currently on...
- Gail Pearson
Gail Pearson Room 514 H69 - The Economics and Business Building The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia 2007Journal Article/s Pearson G 2007 'Consumer Law in the 21st century: Challenges and Opportunities', Competition and Consumer Law Journal,...
- Jayanth K Krishnan
William Mitchell College of Law Publications: Articles and Essays "Toward the Next Generation of Galanter-Influenced Scholars: The Reach of a Law-and-Society Founder." Law and Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2008). With Stewart Macaulay. "Scholarly...
- Roshan De Silva-wijeyeratne
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - [email protected] to the Law and Social Sciences Research Network. Roshan joined the Law School from the University of East London (UK) in 2001....
- Bronwen Morgan
Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow...