The Adelaide Law School held a very successful Adelaide Emerging Scholars evening on the 11 October 2018 where researchers met with the AAL Fellows. The AAL Fellows constitute a vast body of knowledge and experience in the law. Emerging scholars in the Law School at the University of Adelaide wish to tap that knowledge as a means of assisting them in their research.
The Emerging Scholars
David Moon : Towards a Naturalist Theory of Law
David’s naturalist theory focuses upon an understanding of the law as one of the activities of humans as embodied, organic, living animals, embedded within an ecosystem as well as a social system. His theory breaks with religionist and rationalist worldviews which view human beings as separable from their physical, earthly context.
Emily Ireland : An Examination of the Law, Lives and Litigation of Married Women Suing without their Husbands, by a ‘Next Friend’, in the Eighteenth-century English Court of Chancery.
Emily’s work focuses upon the ways in which the common law mitigated the doctrine of coverture and the importance that married women’s participation in litigation played in shaping eighteenth-century English law.
Patricia Carlisle : Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Managing Patients with Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Emergency Departments
Patricia’s research focuses upon the absence of coverage in the current statutory regime dealing with persons unable to give consent to treatment of protection for medical professionals called upon to treat those who are only temporarily denied the power to make rational decisions.
John Harrison: Superannuation and the Welfare System
John’s focus is upon social justice and the interrelationship between the superannuation and tax transfer systems.