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Publications Click here for Publication listing Overview Jill Hunter has published widely on Australian evidence and procedural law, including (1995), (2002), (2005). Jill Hunter’s areas of teaching and research include police investigations, prosecutorial practice and the criminal trial, with a particular focus on comparative and socio-legal perspectives.She supervises post-graduate research students, teaches in the LLB and LLM programs and in the Criminology program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Courses Taught LAWS2321 Litigation 2 LAWS2323 The Criminal Trial LAWS3009 Comparative Criminal Justice: From Investigation to Trial CRIM3010 Comparative Criminal Justice (Criminology program FASS) Research Interests Jill Hunter`s research and teaching interests centre on the law and practice relating to evidence and procedure, with a particular focus on criminal justice processes, especially from sociological, historical and comparative perspective. Current Research Projects Jill Hunter is currently engaged in 2 major research projects. The study of real juries combines expertise across evidence law and practice, forensic psychology and criminology. The study has the support of judges, the criminal bar, court administration and the Attorney-General`s Department. It aims to improve the handling of potently prejudicial evidence by limiting its emotive impact on nury decision-making. The second project is analysing DIMIA and Refugee Review Tribunal representation and decision-making from a random sample of 72 refugee applicants with a view to creating a better understanding of how applicants with post-traumatic stress disorder might be better represented in their refugee-status applicaitons. This study straddles psychology and administrative law, evidence law and broad principles that inform the adjudicative process. It involves Law School colleagues Mehera San Roque and Ronnit Redman and Medical Faculty colleagues Derick Silove, Zac Steel and Naomi Frommer from the Psychiatry Research and Training Unit at Liverpool Hospital. Grants Jill Hunter`s projects on juries and refugees are supported by grants from the Law & Justice Foundation of NSW Journal Affiliations Editorial Committee, International Journal Evidence & Proof (UK) Jill is a reviewer for numerous academic journals. Service to Discipline and the Profession Jill Hunter assists in various capacities on law reform bodies on matters relating to evidence law. She is also active in workshops assisting paediatricians who act as witnesses in sexual abuse prosecutions. Other Activities Jill Hunter convenes the Criminal Justice & Criminology stream of the Faculty`s LLM program. She is actively involved in Indigenous legal education, assisting in the Faculty`s Pre-law Program and in the Winter School for Indigenous High School students. From 2003 to the end of 2006 Jill was the Director, Indigenous Legal Education, in the Faculty. |
