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
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
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, and human rights. He is currently interested in critical and historical approaches to contemporary human rights discourse and, more specifically, the relationship between human rights and politics. He is working at present on a manuscript, tentatively entitled Critical Counter-Conducts: A Foucaultian Politics of Rights, which explores the late work on rights and human rights of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault.
Ben welcomes applications to supervise undergraduate research theses and postgraduate research in these, and related, fields. He is currently co-supervising Higher Degree Research theses on counter-terrorism, the protection of Indigenous cultural expressions via intellectual property law, and the doctrine of indivisibility in human rights law.
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
Dorothea Anthony (PhD), "Indivisibility of Human Rights: A Theoretical Critique". Jointly with Andrew Byrnes.
Joseph Indaimo (PhD), "The Self, the Other and Human Rights: Lacan, Levinas and the Ethics of Alterity". Jointly with Robert Shelly. Completed.
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. Completed.