Ben Golder is a 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.
Ben`s research interests are in legal and social theory (particularly critical, feminist and post-structuralist approaches to law), legal philosophy, criminal law and public law (particularly critical approaches to counter-terrorist law and capital punishment).
Current Research Projects
Current work includes: co-editing a collection of legal scholarship on Michel Foucault; an essay on Foucault and human rights (in the context of contemporary critical debates on human rights); and, an essay on the relevance of Nietzschean concepts of memory and forgetting to a jurisprudential analysis of transitional justice and colonialism.