Ben Golder

Senior Lecturer

BA (Hons) LLB UNSW, PhD Lond.

Contact details

Room:
225 Law Building
Phone:
9385 1843
E-mail:
b.golder@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Ben Golder is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He holds undergraduate law and English literature degrees from UNSW and a doctorate in legal theory from the University of London.


Prior to joining the faculty, Ben taught law at the University of East London, University College London, Birkbeck College and New York University in London.

Courses taught

LAWS1011 Criminal Law 2
LAWS3332 Law and Social Theory
LAWS3102 Advanced Criminal Law
LAWS3017 The Politics of Human Rights: Theory and Critique

Areas of expertise

Ben's research interests are in legal and social theory (particularly critical, feminist and post-structuralist approaches to law), legal philosophy, criminal law, public law (particularly critical approaches to counter-terrorist law and capital punishment) and critical and historical approaches to contemporary human rights discourse.


Ben welcomes applications to supervise undergraduate research theses and postgraduate research in these, and related, fields. He is currently co-supervising work on postmodern critiques of human rights discourse and subjectivity and the criminalisation of HIV transmission.

Research supervision

Marie Hadley (PhD), “Protection of Indigenous Cultural Expressions by Intellectual Property Law”. Jointly with Kathy Bowrey


Keiran Hardy (PhD), "Developing a Counter-Insurgency Model of Anti-Terrorism Law'. Jointly with George Williams and Lucia Zedner


David Carter (LLM), "Law's 'insubordinate openness' and the use of HIV-Related Offences in the Governance of Healthcare in New South Wales". Jointly with Tyrone Kirchengast