Dr Trish Luker
Dr Trish Luker is an Honorary Research Associate in Criminology.
Dr Trish Luker completed a PhD in the School of Law & Legal Studies, La Trobe University in 2006 with her thesis entitled The Rhetoric of Reconciliation: Evidence and Judicial Subjectivity in Cubillo v Commonwealth. Using an interdisciplinary methodology which draws on the fields of critical legal theory, post-colonialism, semiotics and whiteness studies, her work is a critique of a landmark legal action taken by two members of the Stolen Generations, focussing on the reception of evidence and testimony and judicial subjectivity.
Trish is currently employed as a Research Associate in the College of Law at the Australian National University working on a project with Professor Margaret Thornton which examines the impact of neoliberalism on equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination frameworks. For over 15 years, she has worked in a range of organisations in the community and public sectors as an author, editor and communications officer, including the Victorian Law Reform Commission, Federal Court of Australia, Fitzroy Legal Service and Sybylla Feminist Press.
Publications
Journal Articles
- '"Postcolonising" Amnesia in the Discourse of Reconciliation: The Void in the Law's Response to the Stolen Generations', (2005) 22 Australian Feminist Law Journal, Special Issue: Mapping the Law with the Lens of Postcolonial Theory (eds) Nan Seuffert and Ian Duncanson. This special issue of the journal has been issued as a monograph.
- 'Intention and Iterability in Cubillo v Commonwealth in Backburning, (eds) Helen Addison Smith, An Nguyen and Denise Tallis, (2005), Special Issue, Journal of Australian Studies (API Network and UQP).