Overview
Availability
- Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
- Bachelor of Law, Monash University
- Masters (Coursework) of Law, Queensland University of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Works
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2008
Conference Publication
Post Sentence Preventive Detention: Dangerous and Risky
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Post Sentence Preventive Detention: Dangerous and Risky. Annual Supreme Court Judges' Seminar, Customs House, Brisbane, July 2008.
2008
Journal Article
The Criminal Law's Response to Domestic Violence: What's Going On?
Douglas, Heather (2008). The Criminal Law's Response to Domestic Violence: What's Going On?. Sydney Law Review*, 30 (3), 439-469.
2008
Conference Publication
Abortion Law
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Abortion Law. Abortion in Queensland, Brisbane, 17 October 2008.
2008
Conference Publication
Preventive Detention in Criminal Matters and the Judicial Assessment of Risk
Douglas, Heather Anne (2008). Preventive Detention in Criminal Matters and the Judicial Assessment of Risk. Law and Justice in the Risk Society, Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, University of Milano 'Statale', Canberra, 8-10 February 2008.
2007
Journal Article
Not a crime like any other: Sentencing breaches of domestic violence protection orders
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Not a crime like any other: Sentencing breaches of domestic violence protection orders. Criminal Law Journal, 31 (4), 200-233.
2007
Conference Publication
Responses to breaches of domestic violence orders
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Responses to breaches of domestic violence orders. Joint Annual 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, Humboldt University, Berlin, 25-28 July, 2007. not found: not found.
2007
Journal Article
'Criminal law: problems in context' by Mark Findlay
Douglas, Heather (2007). 'Criminal law: problems in context' by Mark Findlay. University of Queensland Law Journal, 26 (1), 213-214.
2007
Journal Article
Assimilation and authenticity: The 'ordinary Aboriginal person' and the provocation defence
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Assimilation and authenticity: The 'ordinary Aboriginal person' and the provocation defence. Adelaide Law Review, 27 (2), 199-226.
2007
Journal Article
The curse of 'white man's water': Aboriginal people and the control of alcohol
Douglas, H. A. (2007). The curse of 'white man's water': Aboriginal people and the control of alcohol. The University of New England Law Journal, 4 (1), 3-33.
2007
Book Chapter
Stories of mistaken consent: Still in the shadow of Morgan
Douglas, H. A. (2007). Stories of mistaken consent: Still in the shadow of Morgan. Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity. (pp. 109-124) edited by Hunter, R. and Cowan, S.. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge Cavendish. doi: 10.4324/9780203937389
2007
Journal Article
The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender and the Legal Professions by Mary Jane Mossman
Douglas, Heather Anne (2007). The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender and the Legal Professions by Mary Jane Mossman. Griffith Law Review, 281-283.
2007
Conference Publication
Uneasy alliances and tensions in the Mulrunji case
Corrin, J. and Douglas, H. A. (2007). Uneasy alliances and tensions in the Mulrunji case. 2007 International Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand: Markings: Sites of Analysis, Discipline, Interrogation, Melbourne, Australia, 28-30 November 2007. not found: not found.
2006
Journal Article
Equity, diversity and student engagement in a law school - A case study approach
Stevens, Elizabeth, Douglas, Heather, Cullen-Mandikos, Bridget and Hunter, Rosemary (2006). Equity, diversity and student engagement in a law school - A case study approach. Legal Education Review, 16 (1/2), 1-33.
2006
Journal Article
Maximum security: 'Being in the belly of the beast'
Douglas, Heather and Touchie, John (2006). Maximum security: 'Being in the belly of the beast'. Criminal Law Journal, 30 (2), 73-83.
2006
Book
Law on the Internet
Banks, Cate and Douglas, Heather (2006). Law on the Internet. 3rd ed. Annandale, N.S.W., Australia: Federation Press.
2005
Journal Article
Customary law, sentencing and the limits of the state
Douglas, Heather (2005). Customary law, sentencing and the limits of the state. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 20 (1), 141-156.
2005
Book Chapter
How Australian law schools endeavour to support indigenous students
Douglas, Heather (2005). How Australian law schools endeavour to support indigenous students. Tertiary teaching and learning : Dealing with diversity. (pp. 177-186) edited by Greg Shaw. Darwin, N.T., Australia: Charles Darwin University Press.
2005
Journal Article
Towards Indigenisation
Douglas, Heather (2005). Towards Indigenisation. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6
2005
Journal Article
She knew what was expected of her: The white legal system's encounter with traditional marriage
Douglas, Heather (2005). She knew what was expected of her: The white legal system's encounter with traditional marriage. Feminist Legal Studies, 13 (2), 181-203. doi: 10.1007/s10691-005-7541-9
2005
Journal Article
Indigenous legal education: Towards Indigenisation
Douglas, H. A. (2005). Indigenous legal education: Towards Indigenisation. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 6 (8), 12-15.
Funding
Supervision
Availability
- Honorary Professor Heather Douglas is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Criminal law and procedure
- disclosure and fair trial;
- unrepresented defendants in criminal matters and the role of judges;
- post-sentence detention (eg: dangerous offenders, indefinites sentences etc.
For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au
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Topics that explore legal issues related to domestic and family violence
- use of exclusion or ouster orders in legislation and by the courts;
- development of specific offences (stalking, torture etc) and their implementation;
- development of defences (eg provocation, battered persons defence) and use in courts;
- role of the victim in charge and prosecution of criminal offences;
- special courts and alternative justice mechanisms in domestic and family violence matters.
For further information contact Professor Heather Douglas, e: h.douglas@law.uq.edu.au
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
The Criminal Justice Journeys of Incarcerated Women who have Experienced Non-Fatal Strangulation: Conceptualising a Trauma- and Gender-informed Approach to Correctional Care.
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Unrepresented Defendants in Criminal Trials in Bhutan: A Comparative Study between Australia and Bhutan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Migration and domestic violence: Women's experiences of proving domestic violence as a requirement for permanent residency in Australia
Principal Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Charging Decision: Accountability, Transparency, and Control of the Decision to Prosecute
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Child Death, Neglect & Criminal Responsibility: The (In)adequacy of the Law of Homicide in Australia in Cases of Child Fatality Resulting from Parental Neglect
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Andreas Schloenhardt
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Does Australia's law governing fitness for trial for summary offences protect the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor John Devereux
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
The role of the victim in criminal proceedings in Australia and Germany - a comparison
Principal Advisor
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
The criminal law implications for doctors who perform sacrificial separation surgery on conjoined twins
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
A Trauma-Informed Non-Fatal Strangulation Trial: Victim-Witnesses, Brain Injury and PTSD
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Caitlin Goss
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Murri Courts: An ethnography of Indigenous sentencing courts in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Babidge, Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Media
Enquiries
Contact Honorary Professor Heather Douglas directly for media enquiries about:
- Aboriginal peoples and criminal law
- Aboriginal peoples and domestic violence
- Abortion and the law
- Australian judicial decision-making
- Criminal law and Indigenous people
- Criminal law and procedure
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence in Indigenous communities
- Family violence
- FASD
- Feminism
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and the Law
- Human rights
- Indigenous people and criminal law
- law reform
- sentencing
- Social justice law
- Stalking and technology facilitated abuse
- Violence - domestic
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