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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 2020Secretariat (former President), West Bathurst Preschool Inc
28 Feb 2018 → 19 Feb 2020Web Content Editor, Monash University
2011 → 2012Research and Consultancy
2008 → 2010Lawyer, Legal Aid VIC
2006 → 2011Editorial Board, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
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Research Output
Care-experienced children and the criminal justice system: Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice no. 600.
McGrath, A., Gerard, A. & Colvin, E., 2020, Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Children in care: The criminalisation of children
Colvin, E., Gerard, A. & McGrath, A., Aug 2020, (Accepted/In press) Prisons and Community Corrections: Critical Issues and Emerging Controversies. Birch, P. & Sicard, L. (eds.). London: RoutledgeResearch output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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, 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
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14/09/18
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Bestselling author, Clementine Ford to visit region to talk about new book
12/09/18
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Bestselling author, Clementine Ford to visit region to talk about new book
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Bestselling author Ford to visit city to talk about new book
04/09/18
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CSU’s first Bachelor of Laws students are ready to graduate
28/08/18
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