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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2015
Conference Publication
Evidence and Victim Experience in Sexual and Domestic Violence Cases: The Approach of the Feminist Judge.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Evidence and Victim Experience in Sexual and Domestic Violence Cases: The Approach of the Feminist Judge.. Inside Out: Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 1 December 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
Cross Applications in the Magistrates Court.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Cross Applications in the Magistrates Court.. Annual Queensland Magistrates Conference, Brisbane, 31 July 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
Abortion Law in Australia
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Abortion Law in Australia. Abortion in Australia Conference, Brisbane, 20 February 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
International Women's Day and the One Woman Project: Making It Happen
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). International Women's Day and the One Woman Project: Making It Happen. International Women's Day High Tea, One Women Project, Brisbane, 8 March 2015.
2015
Book Chapter
Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Marginalised Families
Douglas, Heather and Walsh, Tamara (2015). Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Marginalised Families. Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect. (pp. 491-509) edited by Matthews, Ben and Bross, Donald C. New York, United States: Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_23
2015
Journal Article
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a consideration of sentencing and unreliable confessions
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a consideration of sentencing and unreliable confessions. Journal of Law and Medicine, 23 (2), 427-442.
2015
Conference Publication
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Consideration Sentencing and Unreliable Confessions.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2015). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Consideration Sentencing and Unreliable Confessions.. Queensland District Court Judges' Conference, Sunshine Coast, 10 August 2015.
2015
Book Chapter
Perils of Using Law: A Critique of Protection Orders to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence
Douglas, Heather and Nancarrow, Heather (2015). Perils of Using Law: A Critique of Protection Orders to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence. Critical issues on violence against women : international perspectives and promising strategies. (pp. 77-87) edited by Holly Johnson, Bonnie S. Fisher and Veronique Jaquier. New York, NY United States: Routledge.
2015
Journal Article
Do we need a specific domestic violence offence?
Douglas, Heather (2015). Do we need a specific domestic violence offence?. Melbourne University Law Review, 39 (2), 434-471.
2014
Journal Article
Strangulation, domestic violence and the legal response
Douglas, Heather and Fitzgerald, Robin (2014). Strangulation, domestic violence and the legal response. Sydney Law Review, 36 (2), 231-254.
2014
Journal Article
Selective Reduction of Fetuses in Multiple Pregnancies and the Law in Australia
Davis, Colleen and Douglas, Heather (2014). Selective Reduction of Fetuses in Multiple Pregnancies and the Law in Australia. Journal of Law and Medicine, 22 (1), 155-173.
2014
Book Chapter
Introduction: Righting Australian Law
Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Introduction: Righting Australian Law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 1-18) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
2014
Journal Article
Disability and domestic violence: protecting survivors' human rights
Harpur, Paul and Douglas, Heather (2014). Disability and domestic violence: protecting survivors' human rights. Griffith Law Review, 23 (3), 405-433. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2014.1000241
2014
Conference Publication
Battered Woman Syndrome: The Relationship Between Feminist Academic Critique and Judicial Decision-making.
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Battered Woman Syndrome: The Relationship Between Feminist Academic Critique and Judicial Decision-making.. Criminal Law Workshop, Sydney, 14 February 2014.
2014
Book Chapter
Intersectionality and Indigenous Sentencing Courts
Douglas, Heather (2014). Intersectionality and Indigenous Sentencing Courts. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 339-344) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
2014
Book Chapter
Reflections on rewriting the law
Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Reflections on rewriting the law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 19-40) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
2014
Conference Publication
Social Framework Evidence: Its Interpretation and Application in Victoria and Beyond
Douglas, Heather Anne (2014). Social Framework Evidence: Its Interpretation and Application in Victoria and Beyond. Homicide Law Reform in Victoria and Beyond: Prospects and Retrospect, Melbourne, 16 August 2014.
2014
Journal Article
Understanding the power of law: engaging students in criminal law casework
Douglas, Heather and Taylor, Monica (2014). Understanding the power of law: engaging students in criminal law casework. Legal Education Review, 24 (1), 28-43.
2014
Book Chapter
Reconsidering Precedent
Douglas, Heather (2014). Reconsidering Precedent. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 229-233) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
2014
Conference Publication
An Unsettling Presence: Indigenous Art in Courts of Law
Douglas, Heather Anne and Joanna Besley (2014). An Unsettling Presence: Indigenous Art in Courts of Law. Courting Blakness:Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University, Brisbane, 6 September 2014.
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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