Maria Giannacopoulos
Maria Giannacopoulos is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Criminology Law and Justice in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW, Sydney. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching for working to decolonise the discipline of criminology. In 2023 she delivered the annual John Barry Lecture in Criminology at the University of Melbourne titled ‘Law Reform and Sovereign Refusal in the Colonial Debtscape’ and was shortlisted for the Law, Literature and Humanities Prize for her article ‘White Law/ Black Deaths: Nomocide and the foundational absence of consent in Australian Law’. She is the special issue editor (with Kristopher Wilson and Rhys Aston) of volume 27 of Law Text Culture on the theme of ‘Imagining Decolonised Law’.
Feature Image: Photograph of Australia/Invasion Day Rally, 26 January 2024. Credits: Dimitra Giannacopoulos.
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