Alison Gerard

Personal profile

Professor Alison Gerard founded and lead CSU's first law program and the Centre for Law and Justice (CSU's law school equivalent). Her research examines the criminalisation of vulnerability and seeks to understand the impact of criminalisation and securitisation through listening to those with lived experience. She is a passionate educator and has developed, alongside key stakeholders, an emerging research program on the incoporation of Indigenous perspectives in law and criminology undergraduate programs. Alison is on the Executive of the Council of Australian Law Deans and the Australasian Law Academics Association, and the CALD Working Party on First People's Partnership. Sje is also the Co-Convenor of CSU's Ally Network, responsible for fostering inclusivity and advocacy for LGBTIQA+ staff and students.

Professor Alison Gerard's research focuses on social justice issues and has been included in international journals including the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Journal of Refugee Studies, and Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her fifth book, an edited collection entitled Entrapping Asylum Seekers: Social Legal and Economic Precariousness (with Francesco Vecchio), is published by Palgrave MacMillan.

Alison's legal experience spans criminal law, corporate law, class actions, public international law and legal research.

Research Interests

Securitisation of migration
Criminalisation of young people in out-of-home care
Deaths in custody
Indigenous cultural competence in law curriculum

Professional Information

External Appointments and Memberships:

Treasurer of the Council of Australian Law Deans;
Secretary of the West Bathurst Pre-school Inc Committee of Management
The Council of Australian Law Deans Working Party on Indigenous Cultural Competence in Law Curriculum (member)

Editorial roles on journals:

Editorial Board of Current Issues in Criminal Justice.

Education/Academic qualification

Law/Criminology, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Criminal Justice and Criminology), Monash University

2004

Award Date: 24 Dec 2004

Law, Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours), University of Technology Sydney

Award Date: 12 Dec 2003

Law/Criminology, Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University

2009 → 2012

Law/Criminology, Masters of International Humanitarian Action, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

2007 → 2008

External positions

Executive, Australasian Law Academics Association

07 Jul 2019 → …

Treasurer, Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD)

04 Oct 2018 → 04 Oct 2020

Secretariat (former President), West Bathurst Preschool Inc

28 Feb 2018 → 19 Feb 2020

Web Content Editor, Monash University

2011 → 2012

Research and Consultancy

2008 → 2010

Lawyer, Legal Aid VIC

2006 → 2011

Editorial Board, Current Issues in Criminal Justice

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Research Output

110 Citations
6 h-Index
12 Article
9 Presentation only
7 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
4 Creative Works Original - Textual
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Crimmigration and the Australian legal lexicon: Reflecting on border control, theory and the lived experience

Gerard, A., 2019, Crimmigration in Australia: Law, politics, and society. Billings, P. (ed.). Singapore: Springer Singapore, p. 89-115 26 p.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Embedding Indigenous cultural competence in a Bachelor of Laws at the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University

Gainsford, A., Gerard, A. & Bailey, K., 05 Jun 2019.

Research output: Other contribution to conference › Presentation only

Embedding Indigenous cultural competence in a Bachelor of Laws at the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University

Gainsford, A., Gerard, A. & Bailey, K., 03 Jun 2019.

Research output: Other contribution to conference › Presentation only

‘Humanitarian borderwork’: Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia

Gerard, A. & Weber, L., 16 May 2019, Border Criminologies 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Professional blog or online forum

‘Humanitarian borderwork’: Identifying tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for government contracted NGOs working with adult and unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Australia

Gerard, A. & Weber, L., 04 Jan 2019, In : Theoretical Criminology: an international journal. 23, 2, p. 1-18 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Alison Gerard

28/08/18

5 items of Media coverage

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