Ms Heather Douglas (1st January 2004 – 30th April 2004)

Ms Douglas has been a senior lecturer in Law, at Griffith University since the beginning of 2003 and has also been a part-time State Law Reform Commissioner at the Queensland Law Reform Commission since December 2001. Ms Douglas is a promising, young academic with a wide range of interests, including criminal law, domestic violence, clinical legal education and Indigenous people and the law. Ms Douglas’ research during her visit to Oxford will be to continue her doctoral study of the enduring influence of Justice Kriewaldt on the application of the criminal law to Indigenous Australian defendants, in particular; the cultural specificity of evidence in the context of criminal trials involving indigenous people; the role of the criminal law in circumstances where there is violence between intimate partners; and fair process for prisoners in maximum security units.