Staff Directory Ben Golder
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You can access some of my papers at: http://ssrn.com/author=1207959
Books:
Foucault’s Law (Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009) (with Peter Fitzpatrick)
Edited Collections:
Foucault and Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, under contract) (ed. with Peter Fitzpatrick)
Edited Special Issues of Journals:
‘The Borders of the Political/The Politics of the Border’, a Special Issue of (2009) 20(2) Law & Critique (ed. with Illan Wall and Victoria Ridler)
Book Chapters:
‘What is “Terrorism”? Problems of Legal Definition’, in Anti-Terrorism Laws: Global Scenario, ed. by V. B. Malleswari (Hyderabad: ICFAI Amicus Books, 2008), pp. 1-37 (with George Williams) [extended and revised version of article below]
‘“It forced me to open more than I could bear”: HAD, Paedophilia, and the Discursive Limits of the Male Heterosexual Body’, in An Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens, ed. by Andrew T. Kenyon and Peter Rush (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004), pp. 53-72
Refereed Journal Articles:
‘Foucault and the Incompletion of Law’ (2008) 21(3) Leiden Journal of International Law 747-63
‘Foucault and the Genealogy of Pastoral Power’ (2007) 10(2) Radical Philosophy Review 157-76
‘Balancing National Security and Human Rights: Assessing the Legal Response of Common Law Nations to the Threat of Terrorism’ (2006) 8(1) Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 43-62 (with George Williams)
‘From McFarlane to Melchior and Beyond: Love, Sex, Money and Commodification in the Anglo-Australian Law of Torts’ (2004) 12(2) Torts Law Journal 128-54
‘Rethinking the Subject of Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory: Towards a Feminist Foucaultian Jurisprudence’ (2004) 8 Southern Cross University Law Review 73-95
‘What is ‘Terrorism’? Problems of Legal Definition’ (2004) 27(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 270-95 (with George Williams)
'Law, History, Colonialism: An Orientalist Reading of Australian Native Title Law’ (2004) 9(1) Deakin Law Review 41-60
The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Law/Body Nexus: Towards a Poetics of Law Reform’ (2004) 11(1) E Law – Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law [<www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw>], paras 1-67
Conference Papers (a selection):
‘Foucault and the Subject of Human Rights’, paper presented to the Birkbeck College School of Law Staff Workshop, The Laws of Michel Foucault (London, 2 May 2008)
‘Foucault’s Law: Part One’, paper presented to the Critical Legal Conference, Walls (London, 14-16 September 2007)
‘Foucault on Ethics and Law’, paper presented to the joint meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures (Berlin, 25-28 July 2007)
‘Critical Ontology as Law’, paper presented to the 8th Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Multitude, People, Resistance (Colchester, 21-22 June 2007)
‘Racism and the Murderous Function of the State: Law and Sovereign Power in Foucault’s ‘Society Must Be Defended’’, paper presented to the 3rd Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Conference, ‘Too Pure an Air’: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice and Equality (Gloucester, 18-20 June 2006)
‘Legal Definitions of Violence: The Symbolic Politics of Counter-Terrorism’, paper presented to the Critical Legal Conference, Resistance (Canterbury, 2-4 September 2005)
‘Democracy’s Definitional Disavowal, or The Semantic Economy of Political Violence’, paper presented to the 6th Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Difference, Borders, Others (Colchester, 13-14 May 2005)
‘Provoking Hatred: The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Politics of the Body’, paper presented to the 20th Annual Law and Society Conference (Australia), Opening Law: Making Links – Crossing Boundaries (Wollongong, 9-11 December 2002)
‘’[I]t forced me to open more than I could bear’: HAD, paedophilia, and the discursive limits of the (male heterosexual) body’, paper presented to the 11th International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, held in conjunction with the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (USA), Mediating Law: Theory Production Culture (Melbourne, 29 November-1 December 2002)
Book Reviews:
Jennifer L. Culbert, Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), reviewed in (2009) 5(1) Law, Culture and the Humanities 164-6
Margaret Davies, Asking the Law Question, 3rd ed. (Sydney: Thomson Lawbook Co., 2008), reviewed in (2008) 33(2) Alternative Law Journal 124
Ian Ward, Introduction to Critical Legal Theory, 2nd ed. (London: Cavendish Publishing, 2004), reviewed in (2006) 15(1) Social & Legal Studies 154-7
Ronnie Lippens, ed., Imaginary Boundaries of Justice: Social and Legal Justice across Disciplines (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005), reviewed in (2006) 69(1) Modern Law Review 129-31
Eduardo Mendieta and Jeffrey Paris, eds., ‘Biopolitics and Racism’, Special Issue of Radical Philosophy Review 7(1) (2004), reviewed in (2005) 3 Foucault Studies 121-6
Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know (Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2004) and David Rose, Guantánamo: America’s War on Human Rights (New York: New Press, 2004), reviewed in (2005) 27(3) Sydney Law Review 579-83
Elaine C. Hagopian, ed., Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (London: Pluto Press, 2004), reviewed in (2005) 17(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 168-70
Prue Vines, Law and Justice in Australia: Foundations of the Legal System (Melbourne: OUP, 2005), reviewed in (2005) 27(1) Sydney Law Review 181-3
Media Opinion Pieces:
‘The Tricky Problem of Defining Terrorism’, On-Line Opinion: Australia’s e-journal of Social and Political Debate, 11 March 2005
[<http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3226>] (with George Williams)
‘Rights and Wrongs: On How to Define Terrorism’, Australian Financial Review, 13 May 2005, Review p. 9 (with George Williams)
Submissions to Public Inquiries:
Submission to NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues Inquiry into an Equal Age of Consent (2002)
Submission to the Department of Education, Science and Training on the Ministerial Discussion Paper, Higher Education at the Crossroads (2002)
Submission to Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education References Committee Inquiry into the Capacity of Public Universities to Meet Australia’s Higher Education Needs (2001)
Submission to NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on the Increase in Prisoner Population (2000)
Submission to NSW Law Reform Commission Review of Part 10 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 (2000)
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