Hub Members

Professor Ann Genovese

Ann Genovese is a Professor at the Melbourne Law School. She teaches and researches in the fields of public law, history, and jurisprudence.  She is a Law and Humanities specialist; with expertise in explaining and caring for the archival sources, and techniques, that show how Australian people have lived with their law.  Her work has been integral to the establishment of an emergent practice – jurisography. She publishes widely across feminist jurisprudence, history, Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations, law and interdisciplinary fields. She has been the recipient of six ARC grants over the course of her career, often working with institutions, to research the history, theory and lived experiences of the relations between Australian law and its diverse publics. Her publications include: Rights and Redemption: History, Law, Indigenous People (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008) (with Curthoys and Reilly); Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility (University of Hawaii Press, 2013) (with Evans, Wolfe, Reilly); Australian Critical Decisions: Remembering the Koowarta and Tasmanian Dam Case (Routledge, 2017), The Court As Archive (ANU Press, 2019) (with Rubenstein and Luker); and Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (Routledge, forthcoming 2022).

Ann welcomes conversations about supervision and collaborations, on topics and  methods  related to Indigenous- non-Indigenous relations; Australian archival stories and ethics; and  feminist and Queer jurisprudence and history.

Professor Heather Douglas

Heather Douglas joined Melbourne Law School in 2021 and teaches and researches in the area of criminal law and procedure. Heather  researched the operation and application of law in the context of Australian indigenous–settler relations in her PhD and her book, Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty After Empire, co-authored with Mark Finnane which was published by Palgrave in 2012. Heather has long had an interest in the experience of law school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and has written a number of articles on this topic. She is currently working on an edited collection with Nicole Watson titled Legal Education Through an Indigenous Lens: Decolonising the Law School. Also with Dr Nicole Watson, she assisted in the coordination of the Indigenous Judgments Project and the resulting co-edited collection, Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making, that was published by Routledge in 2021.