
Overview
Background
Professor Ann Black researches in the field of comparative law, law & religion, and legal pluralism, with particular interest in Islamic law and the law and legal cultures of Asia, especially Brunei Darussalam. She teaches two comparative law courses in the undergraduate program - Asian Legal Systems and Introduction to Islamic law in addition to Fundamentals of the Common Law and Comparative Criminal Law in the School's Master's program. Professor Black received the UQ Teaching Excellence Award in 2022, and in 2023 she received the prestigious Award for Teaching Excellence at the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
Professor Black is a co-author with Gary Bell, of Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, adaptations and innovations (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law, with Hossein Esmaeili and Nadirsyah Hosen, (Edward Elgar, 2013), and Religious Freedom in a Secular Society, with Jahid Hussein in Brill’s Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights (2022) and Religious Freedom and Accommodating Religious Diversity: Challenges and Responses (2023). Another book co-edited with Jahid Bhuiyan, Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity: State Accommodation of Religious Minorities (Routledge) will be available October 2024.
Professor Black is the Executive Director, Comparative Law, in the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and is the Program manager for the Centre's Indonesian Law Program, the Legal Pluralism Program, and the Korean Law Program and is a member of the Law and Religion in the Asia-Pacific and the Federalism and Multilevel Governance Program.
Availability
- Professor Ann Black is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Research interests
-
Southeast Asian law
-
Comparative Criminal law
-
Law & religion
Works
Search Professor Ann Black’s works on UQ eSpace
Featured
2024
Book
Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity : State Accommodation of Religious Minorities
Bhuiyan, Md Jahid Hossain and Black, Ann (2024). Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity : State Accommodation of Religious Minorities. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003458128
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Exporting a Constitutional Court to Brunei? Benefits and prospects
Black, Ann (2022). Exporting a Constitutional Court to Brunei? Benefits and prospects. Constitutional Review, 8 (2), 361-391. doi: 10.31078/consrev826
Featured
2022
Journal Article
The Sultanate of Brunei's gender paradox
Black, Ann (2022). The Sultanate of Brunei's gender paradox. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 23 (2) 4, 45-61.
Featured
2022
Book
Religious freedom in secular states: a 21st century perspective
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Ann Black eds. (2022). Religious freedom in secular states: a 21st century perspective. Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights, Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Nijhoff . doi: 10.1163/9789004449961_001
Featured
2022
Book Chapter
Religious freedom in a secular state: an introduction
Black, Ann and Bhuiyan , Md Jahid Hossain (2022). Religious freedom in a secular state: an introduction. Religious freedom in a secular state: a 21st century perspective . (pp. 3-20) edited by Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Ann Black . Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Nijoff. doi: 10.1163/9789004449961_002
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Regulating the COVID-19 pandemic: fatwas, law, and policy in Australia
Black, Ann (2022). Regulating the COVID-19 pandemic: fatwas, law, and policy in Australia. Journal of Law and Policy Transformation , 7 (1), 9-27. doi: 10.37253/jlpt.v7i1.6710
Featured
2022
Book Chapter
In the time of the COVID-19: law, religious freedom and the secular state
Black, Ann (2022). In the time of the COVID-19: law, religious freedom and the secular state. Religious freedom in secular states: a 21st century perspective . (pp. 42-72) edited by Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Ann Black . Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff. doi: 10.1163/9789004449961_004
Featured
2021
Book Chapter
Recalibrating the scales of criminal justice in Brunei Darussalam: religious penal clauses 1905–2018
Black, Ann (2021). Recalibrating the scales of criminal justice in Brunei Darussalam: religious penal clauses 1905–2018. Religious offences in common law Asia: colonial legacies, constitutional rights and contemporary practice . (pp. 351-388) edited by Li-ann Thio and Jaclyn L. Neo. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509937325.ch-011
Featured
2020
Journal Article
Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum: Royalty, Women, and Ideology in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam
Black, Ann (2020). Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum: Royalty, Women, and Ideology in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. Royal Studies Journal, 7 (2), 94-116. doi: 10.21039/rsj.269
Featured
2019
Journal Article
Casting the first stone: the significance of Brunei Darussalam’s Syariah Penal Code order for LGBT Bruneians
Black, Ann (2019). Casting the first stone: the significance of Brunei Darussalam’s Syariah Penal Code order for LGBT Bruneians. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 20 (1) 18, 247-263.
Featured
2019
Book Chapter
Cultural expertise in Australia: colonial laws, customs, and emergent legal pluralism
Black, Ann (2019). Cultural expertise in Australia: colonial laws, customs, and emergent legal pluralism. Cultural expertise and socio-legal studies: Special Issue. (pp. 133-155) edited by Austin Sarat and Livia Holden. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1059-433720190000078008
Featured
2019
Journal Article
Brunei Darussalam: small by choice but great in the eyes of Allah
Black, Ann (2019). Brunei Darussalam: small by choice but great in the eyes of Allah. Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, XXIII, 81-108.
Featured
2018
Book Chapter
Judicial independence, impartiality and integrity in Brunei Darussalam
Black, Ann (2018). Judicial independence, impartiality and integrity in Brunei Darussalam. Asia-Pacific judiciaries: independence, impartiality and integrity. (pp. 57-80) edited by Hoong Phun (H. P.) Lee and Marilyn Pittard. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316480946.006
Featured
2018
Book Chapter
Colonial legacies: family laws in Singapore and Australia
Black, Ann (2018). Colonial legacies: family laws in Singapore and Australia. Research handbook on Islamic law and society. (pp. 13-47) edited by Nadirsyah Hosen. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781781003060.00008
Featured
2018
Book Chapter
Mixed Blessings. Fatwas in the Age of Technology
Black, Ann and Black, Peter (2018). Mixed Blessings. Fatwas in the Age of Technology. Tools of Meaning; Representation, Objects, and Agency in the Technologies of Law and Religion. (pp. 239-264) edited by Branco, Patricia, Hosen, Nadirsyah, Leone, Massimo and Mohr, Richard. Rome, Italy: Aracne.
Featured
2017
Journal Article
Adaptations of Islamic family law for the Australian context
Black, Ann (2017). Adaptations of Islamic family law for the Australian context. Australian Journal of Family Law, 159-179.
Featured
2013
Book
Modern perspectives on Islamic Law
Black, Elizabeth Ann, Esmaeili, Hossein and Hosen, Nadirsyah (2013). Modern perspectives on Islamic Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. doi: 10.4337/9780857934475
Featured
2012
Journal Article
Replicating a 'model of mutual respect': could Singapore's legal pluralism work in Australia?
Black, Ann (2012). Replicating a 'model of mutual respect': could Singapore's legal pluralism work in Australia?. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 65, 65-102.
Featured
2012
Journal Article
Court ceremonies, ritual and symbolism: how islamic law and common law are conceptualised and apply to an unlawful killing
Black, Ann (2012). Court ceremonies, ritual and symbolism: how islamic law and common law are conceptualised and apply to an unlawful killing. Griffith Law Review, 21 (2), 499-532. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2012.10854751
Featured
2011
Book
Law and legal institutions of Asia: traditions, adaptations and innovations
E. Ann Black and Gary Bell eds. (2011). Law and legal institutions of Asia: traditions, adaptations and innovations. Cambridge Law series, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511921131
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Ann Black is:
- Available for supervision
Before you email them, read our advice on how to contact a supervisor.
Available projects
-
Aspects of law in Asia: comparative analysis
Potential topics could include:
- Religious freedom in Asian countries
- Minority rights in a particular Asian nation
For further information contact Professor Anne Black, e: a.black@law.uq.edu.au
-
Shariah law from a comparative law perspective
Potential topics could include:
- Islamic family law reform
- Family and inheritance law for Muslims in secular Western nations
- Constitutional law in particular Muslim nations
- The role of law in the process of Islamisation in a particular Muslim nation or region
For further information contact Professor Anne Black, e: a.black@law.uq.edu.au
Supervision history
Current supervision
-
Doctor Philosophy
Multicultural Co-living and Five Shared Values: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Protections for Multicultural Communities in Japan and Singapore
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor David Chapman
Completed supervision
-
2022
Master Philosophy
The Chrysanthemum Throne: The Status of the Emperor and Gender Discrimination in Japanese Law
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor David Chapman
-
2021
Doctor Philosophy
Navigating dual legal systems: Islamic inheritance law in Australia's secular legal framework
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor David Morrison
-
2016
Doctor Philosophy
The Role of the Constitutional Court in Securing Constitutional Government in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
-
2016
Doctor Philosophy
Promoting and Protecting the Right to Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh
Principal Advisor
-
2017
Doctor Philosophy
State Courts, Traditional Dispute Resolution and Indigenous Peoples in South Kalimantan: A Socio-Legal Study
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin
Media
Enquiries
For media enquiries about Professor Ann Black's areas of expertise, story ideas and help finding experts, contact our Media team: