Doctor Cressida Limon

My research focuses on the intersections of law, gender and technology. I am particularly interested in feminist and critical theoretical approaches to law.  In my work I analyse how technologies impact legal forms in ways that reproduce or resist nature/culture hierarchies and social inequalities. For example, my PhD thesis, ‘Genes, Biotechnologies and Legal Imaginings’ (2012) examined the contradictory ways in which genes are represented across a range of legal fields including family law, anti-discrimination law and patent law.

Before joining the Law School at Western Sydney, I was the Research Fellow for the Family Law Council of Australia’s inquiry into family formation and the law. I have  held positions at a number of universities including Victoria University Melbourne, The University of Melbourne and the University of California Santa Cruz. I have taught in the fields of Anti-Discrimination Law, Bioethics, Introduction to Law, Lawyers and Legal Ethics, Legal Research Methods, Legal Theory and Property Law.

I am currently the Unit Coordinator of Property Law. I am the convenor of the School of Law’s Public Seminar Series and a member of the School of Law’s Research and Higher Degree Committee.

I have been a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal since 2001.  I have also co-edited two special issues of the AFLJ: Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, December 2014 (with Yoriko Otomo) and Law, Invention and Technology, December 2012 (with Sara Ramshaw).

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