Professor Ngaire Naffine

  • Biography/ Background

    Ngaire Naffine is Emerita Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide. She has published in the areas of criminology, criminal law, jurisprudence, feminist legal theory and medical law. 

      She has been a Visiting International Scholar at the Hastings Bioethics Center in Garrison New York; a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the European University Institute in Florence Italy; as well as Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland- Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Genest Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Visiting Professor at LSE. 

    Her most recent monograph is Criminal Law and the Man Problem (Hart 2019) .

    Her current book in progress is a critical and feminist account of new and historic uses of the concept of the person within the discipline of law. It entails a development of her earlier book Law's Meaning of Life (Hart 2009).

     

  • Qualifications

    LLB, PhD, FASSA, FAAL, FBA

    Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

    Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of the A.C.T.

    Barrister of the High Court of Australia

     

     

     

  • Research Interests

    Legal Theory, Criminal Law, Medical Law, Feminist Theory

  • Publications

    Recent Articles and Chapters

     

    ‘Hidden Presuppositions and the Problem of Paradigm Persons’ (2021) 44  Revus Journal for Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law

    ‘The Ontology of Criminal Law’ (2021) 46, 1 Journal of Legal Philosophy 67-72

    ‘The Characters of Criminal Law’ in Iyiola Solanke ed On Crime, Society and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey (OUP 2021)

    ‘Some Gentle Violence: Marital Rape Immunity as Contradiction in Criminal Law’ in Cynthia Bowman and Robin West  eds Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence (Edward Elgar, 2019)

    ‘Criminal Law and the Moral Education of Men’ (2018) 11 Fudan Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences 129-144

     

    Books

     

    Criminal Law and the Man Problem (Hart 2019)

     

    Female Crime (Routledge edition, 2016)

     

    Caruso, Buth, Heath, Leader-Elliott, Naffine, Plater and Toole South Australian Criminal Law: Review and Critique (Lexis Nexis 2014)

     

    Law’s Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person

    Hart Publishing, Oxford, Jan 2009

     

    Gender and Justice (editor)

    Ashgate , Aldershot, England 2002 pp 482

     

    Are Persons Property? Legal Debates about Property and Personality (with M Davies)

    Ashgate , Aldershot, England, 2001 pp 209

     

    Intention in Law and Philosophy (co-editor with Rosemary Owens and John Williams)

    Ashgate, Aldershot, England, 2001 pp 377

     

    Feminism and Criminology

    Polity Press, Cambridge, 1997; Temple University Press, Pennsylvania, 1996, Allen and Unwin, North Ryde, 1997 pp 192

     

    Sexing the Subject of Law (co editor with Rosemary J Owens)

    Law Book Co, North Ryde; Sweet and Maxwell, London, 1997 pp 299

     

    Gender, Crime and Feminism (editor)

    Dartmouth Press, Aldershot, 1995, pp 469

     

    Juvenile Justice: Debating the Issues (co-editor with F Gale and J Wundersitz)

    Allen and Unwin: 1993 185pp

     

    Law and the Sexes: Explorations in Feminist Jurisprudence

    Allen and Unwin: 1990 170pp, reprinted 1992 pp 170

     

    Female Crime: The Construction of Women in Criminology

    George Allen and Unwin: 1987 pp150

     

     

     

  • Professional Associations

    Fellow of the British Academy

    Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia

    Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

    Sometime Member of the College of Experts, Humanities and Creative Arts Panel, ARC

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Entry last updated: Wednesday, 25 Jan 2023