School of Law
University of New England
2021 Kirby Seminar series
Via Webinar Monday 23 August 2021 1pm AEST
If interested and to obtain a link, please register for this Kirby Seminar at: https://une-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M60nqqQGQgi3y59aGv2ySg
Lawful Networks: European Emigres’ Impact on Australian law and legal education
Professor Katherine Biber, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney
In this Kirby seminar, Professor Katherine Biber will discuss the history that during and immediately after World War II, Australia received legally-trained migrants fleeing fascism and persecution in Europe. Some of these managed to gain positions in Australian law schools, some entered the legal profession, and some followed different paths. Mark Lunney has remarked that the influence of these European émigré lawyers is a “forgotten history”. In this presentation, Katherine will set out a larger collaborative project which seeks to uncover the journeys, careers and legacies of these lawyers.
Professor Katherine Biber is a legal scholar, criminologist and historian and Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She researches evidence in different ways: photographic evidence, documentary evidence, criminal evidence, histories of evidence. Her most recent books is In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence (Routledge, 2019). She is currently working on a legal history of Australia’s last outlaw, Jimmy Governor. Katherine is a co-editor of Evidence and the Archive: Ethics, Aesthetics and Emotion (Routledge, 2017), which explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law’s archive and re-examining law’s evidence. Her new co-edited book will be Law’s Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics (Routledge, 2022), examining legal documentation practices under settler colonialism, and in the digital age. Katherine is currently co-Editor in Chief of the international journal Crime, Media, Culture.
The presentation ‘Lawful Networks: European Emigres’ Impact on Australian law and legal education’’is based on a new research project undertaken with Professor Ana Vrdoljak and Dr Sara Dehm, both from the UTS.
