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Dr Jo Goodie

Senior Lecturer/BLS Program Chair
PhD (Murdoch) LL.B., BA. (Melb)

Senior Lecturer in Law. Dr Goodie is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (B.A. LLB., 1989). She is admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1990) and Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (1992).

Dr Goodie has worked in the private practice in Victoria and, as a public lawyer in WA, as inaugural solicitor at the Bunbury Community Legal Centre.

Dr Goodie teaches in both the LLB and BLS programmes in a range of subjects, including LAW258 Australian Administrative Law, LEG271 Law and the Family, Children and the Law; LEG100 Law, Justice and Social Policy and LEG153 Introduction to Administrative Law.

The focus of Dr Goodie’s research is the analysis of the formation of law, in particular environmental and family law. Her current environmental law research examines the ways in which ‘the environment’ has been constituted and situated as a subject of legal thinking and practice through the law’s interface with non-legal conceptualisations of the environment. Dr Goodie’s family law research interest involves an ongoing project investigating whether the 2006 reforms to Part VII of the Family Law Act 1975, which privilege ‘shared parental responsibility’, will always guarantee the best interests of the child. Her analysis focuses on cases where children have significant relationships with carers and people other than their biological parents.
Career:
   
Murdoch University, WA
Senior Lecturer
Slater and Gordon, Melbourne
Solicitor and Articled Clerk
Gill, Kane and Brophy, Melbourne
Solicitor
Bunbury Community Legal Centre
Inaugural Principle Solicitor
  • Admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the Suprem Court of Victoria.
Education:

  • LL.B, BA. – University of Melbourne

  • PhD – Murdoch University
Teaching:

Units in which I have taught:

  • Administrative Law
  • Law and the Family
  • Introduction to Administrative Law
  • Law, Justice and Social Policy
  • Advanced Family Law
  • Torts
Research:

PhD “The invention of the environment as a modern legal subject” – a project which explores the legal governance of the environment through the interface of legal and non-legal discourses.

The focus of Dr Goodie’s research is the analysis of the formation of law, in particular environmental and family law. Her current environmental law research examines the ways in which ‘the environment’ has been constituted and situated as a subject of legal thinking and practice through the law’s interface with non-legal conceptualisations of the environment. Dr Goodie’s family law research interest involves an ongoing project investigating whether the 2006 reforms to Part VII of the Family Law Act 1975, which privilege ‘shared parental responsibility’, will always guarantee the best interests of the child. Her analysis focuses on cases where children have significant relationships with carers and people other than their biological parents.

Publications:
  1. Jo Goodie, (2008) “Toxic tort and the articulation of environmental risk” Law Text and Culture, forthcoming.
  2. Anna Copeland and Jo Goodie, (2008) “The Child, the Young Person and the Law” in, G. Monahan and L. Young (Eds) Children and the Law in Australia (146-63). LexisNexis Butterworths.
  3. Jo Goodie, (2003) “Governmentality, Law, Public Interest and the Environment” in, P. Corrigan et al (Eds) TASA 2003 Conference Proceedings – New Times, New World, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow, University of New England, Armidale 4-6 December – The Refereed Papers Armidale: The Australian Sociological Association and the University of New England.
  4. Jo Goodie and Tracey Summerfield, (2002) “What’s in a name? Family, Identity and Social Obligation” University of Western Sydney Law Review, 6: 209-221.
  5. Jo Goodie and Gary Wickham, (2002) “Calculating ‘Public Interest’: Common Law and the Legal Governance of the Environment” Social and Legal Studies, 11(1): 37-60.
  6. Jo Goodie, (2001) “The Environment as a Subject of Legal Governance” in, G. Wickham and G. Pavlich (Eds) Rethinking Law, Society and Governance: Foucault’s Bequest (79-92). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  7. Jo Goodie, (2000) “Producing the Environment as a Local Subject: The Crucial Role of Interests” in, P. Kennedy (Ed.) Globalization and Culture in Everyday Life (173-84). Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University.
  8. J. Goodie, (1996) ‘Teaching Law in Context: After some theoretical reflection’ in, L.A. Marks (Ed.) Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Conference of the Australasian Law Teachers Association. Melbourne: La Trobe University.

Conference Presentations:

  1. “Environmental Sensibility, the Problematisation and Legal Governance of the Environment” Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Melbourne Law School, 13-15 June 2008
  2. “Toxic Tort and the Articulation of Environmental Risk”. University of British Columbia Socio-legal Speaker Series, Vancouver Canada, 12 October 2007
  3. “Environmental Crisis and States of (In)security” Conference. Carleton University, Ottawa Canada, 1 November 2007
  4. “The Emergence of the Environment as a Legal Subject”: ‘Signs of the Times’ – 6th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, University of Wollongong, 28-30 June 2005
  5. “The Law and the Conceptualisation of Risk” - ‘Community, Place and Change’: The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 5-8 December 2005
  6. “Tort as a technique of legal governance of the environment” - The International Social Theory Consortium, National University of Singapore, 9-11 June 2005
  7. “The environment as a legal subject” - Law’s Empire Conference, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada, 25-30 June 2005
  8. “Legal Governance of the Environment” - Sites of Cosmopolitanism Conference, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, 6-8 July 2005
  9. “The Environment - From Scientific, Governmental and Legal Object to Legal Subject” - Australian Law and Society Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2004
  10. “Governmentality, Law, Public Interest and the Environment” - TASA 2003 Conference ‘New Times, New World, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow’, University of New England, Armidale, 4-6 December 2003
  11. “Risk, Toxic Torts and the Legal Governance of Environmental Harm”, - Conference of the Australian Law and Society Association, Wollongong, Australia, December 2002
  12. (with Tracey Summerfield) "What's in a name? Family, identity and social obligation" - Conference of the Australian Law and Society Association, Melbourne, Australia, December 2001
  13. “Thinking about each other – environmental and legal discourse” - Conference of the Australian Law and Society Association, Melbourne, Australia, December 2001
  14. "Calculating Public Interest: the common law and the legal governance of the environment" - Conference of the International Law and Society Association, Budapest, Hungary, July 2001
  15. "Producing the Environment as a Local Subject: The Crucial Role of Interests" - Conference on Globalization, Culture and Everyday Life, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, July 2000
Contact:
   
Address:  
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Murdoch University +61 8 9310 6671
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MURDOCH WA 6150 www.law.murdoch.edu/staffs/j.goodie.html

 

 

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