Zoe Rathus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoe Rathus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Rathus |
| SIGNATURE | RATHUS Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith Law School, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7950-1734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The repeal of Australia’s problematic family law presumption (and other amendments): Cautiously welcomed – but what has been lost
Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: An Embodied Performance of One Woman’s Experience
This paper uses a drama-based method to illustrate the responses of healthcare and legal systems to women experiencing coercive control. This approach involved writing a play using the first-person narrative voice of a victim-survivor. We presented the play at the Stop Domestic Violence Conference (Gold Coast, Australia) in 2021. The central character, 'Kate', provided an embodied performance that enabled the conference participants to see, feel …
Dislocated lives: The experience of women survivors of family and domestic violence after being ‘Hagued’
This article reports on interviews with ten women who had experienced the legal process of the 1980 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the ‘Hague Convention’ or the ‘Convention’). We refer to that experience as being ‘Hagued’. All the women were subjected to a Hague return order after fleeing family and domestic violence perpetrated by their previous partner, because they fled with their children across internationa…
Social Scientists Operating in the Law: A Case Study of Family Assessment Experts in the Australian Family Law System
Although the role of social science research in the family law system has been the subject of scholarly research for some time, less attention has been paid to how operating within the legal system might influence the work of social science and related expert witnesses who perform in that space. This article reports on interviews with family report writers, social science or similar expert witnesses, who provide assessments for the Australian fam…
A history of the use of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system: Contradictions, collisions and their consequences
This paper presents insights into the history and current deployment of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system. It begins in 1989, when an article on parental alienation syndrome was first published in an Australian law journal. It then traces aspects of the socio-legal and social science research, gender politics, law reform and jurisprudence of the following 30 years, paying attention to moments of significant ch…
Mapping the use of social science in Australian courts: The example of family law children’s cases
This article provides a partial map of the history of the use of social science in children’s cases in Australia’s family courts. The study was conducted by searching for the names of a range of well-known social scientists, research agencies and social science phrases in the published case databases available from the commencement of the Family Court of Australia in 1976 to the end of 2015. The main focus is on judges’ use of social science lite…
Judicial decision-making and ‘outside’ extra-legal knowledge: Breaking down silos
Judges apply law to facts. While this‘umpire’ description of judicial decision-making is rhetorically (and often politically and publicly) attractive, it is of course a very incomplete account of judicial decision-making.1 Judges frequently experience factual ‘gaps’ they need to fill in order to reach a decision. Judge Richard Posner has recently suggested this is a very significant problem facing judges in the twenty-first century as the technol…
The Role of Social Science in Australian Family Law: Collaborator, Usurper or Infiltrator
This article explores the somewhat ambiguous relationship between family law decision making and social science research in contemporary Australian family law. It follows the history of social scientists and social science research in the current family law system since its commencement in 1976 and sets this against the changing socio‐legal climate of the four decades covered. It demonstrates that, while social science research has been of critic…
Of ‘Hoods’ and ‘Ships’ and Citizens: The Contradictions Confronting Mothers in the New Post-Separation Family
This article argues that the new family laws in Australia have created a tension between the good pre-separation mother citizen and the good post-separation mother citizen. With the emphasis on shared parenting, post-separation mothers must now sacrifice time with their children in favour of the fathers. This tends to obscure the past care work of mothers and to valorise fathers. Using a linguistic ploy, I reveal the identities and lived realitie…
Getting "Women" on Butcher'S Paper at the Australia 2020 Summit: "Social Inclusion" and Women'S Place in the 21st Century
This article is partly a narrative - a personal story - of attending and participating in the Australia 2020 Summit. It also explores the way in which women were included in and excluded from the processes, content and discussions of that event, in the hope that the analysis may assist in formulating ways to enhance effective strategic thinking, policy development and service delivery which specifically addresses the needs of and opportunities fo…
A history of the use of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system: Contradictions, collisions and their consequences
This paper presents insights into the history and current deployment of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system. It begins in 1989, when an article on parental alienation syndrome was first published in an Australian law journal. It then traces aspects of the socio-legal and social science research, gender politics, law reform and jurisprudence of the following 30 years, paying attention to moments of significant ch…
Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: An Embodied Performance of One Woman’s Experience
This paper uses a drama-based method to illustrate the responses of healthcare and legal systems to women experiencing coercive control. This approach involved writing a play using the first-person narrative voice of a victim-survivor. We presented the play at the Stop Domestic Violence Conference (Gold Coast, Australia) in 2021. The central character, 'Kate', provided an embodied performance that enabled the conference participants to see, feel …
Getting "Women" on Butcher'S Paper at the Australia 2020 Summit: "Social Inclusion" and Women'S Place in the 21st Century
This article is partly a narrative - a personal story - of attending and participating in the Australia 2020 Summit. It also explores the way in which women were included in and excluded from the processes, content and discussions of that event, in the hope that the analysis may assist in formulating ways to enhance effective strategic thinking, policy development and service delivery which specifically addresses the needs of and opportunities fo…
Of ‘Hoods’ and ‘Ships’ and Citizens: The Contradictions Confronting Mothers in the New Post-Separation Family
This article argues that the new family laws in Australia have created a tension between the good pre-separation mother citizen and the good post-separation mother citizen. With the emphasis on shared parenting, post-separation mothers must now sacrifice time with their children in favour of the fathers. This tends to obscure the past care work of mothers and to valorise fathers. Using a linguistic ploy, I reveal the identities and lived realitie…
The Role of Social Science in Australian Family Law: Collaborator, Usurper or Infiltrator
This article explores the somewhat ambiguous relationship between family law decision making and social science research in contemporary Australian family law. It follows the history of social scientists and social science research in the current family law system since its commencement in 1976 and sets this against the changing socio‐legal climate of the four decades covered. It demonstrates that, while social science research has been of critic…
Mapping the use of social science in Australian courts: The example of family law children’s cases
This article provides a partial map of the history of the use of social science in children’s cases in Australia’s family courts. The study was conducted by searching for the names of a range of well-known social scientists, research agencies and social science phrases in the published case databases available from the commencement of the Family Court of Australia in 1976 to the end of 2015. The main focus is on judges’ use of social science lite…
Judicial decision-making and ‘outside’ extra-legal knowledge: Breaking down silos
Judges apply law to facts. While this‘umpire’ description of judicial decision-making is rhetorically (and often politically and publicly) attractive, it is of course a very incomplete account of judicial decision-making.1 Judges frequently experience factual ‘gaps’ they need to fill in order to reach a decision. Judge Richard Posner has recently suggested this is a very significant problem facing judges in the twenty-first century as the technol…
A history of the use of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system: Contradictions, collisions and their consequences
This paper presents insights into the history and current deployment of the concept of parental alienation in the Australian family law system. It begins in 1989, when an article on parental alienation syndrome was first published in an Australian law journal. It then traces aspects of the socio-legal and social science research, gender politics, law reform and jurisprudence of the following 30 years, paying attention to moments of significant ch…
Social Scientists Operating in the Law: A Case Study of Family Assessment Experts in the Australian Family Law System
Although the role of social science research in the family law system has been the subject of scholarly research for some time, less attention has been paid to how operating within the legal system might influence the work of social science and related expert witnesses who perform in that space. This article reports on interviews with family report writers, social science or similar expert witnesses, who provide assessments for the Australian fam…
Dislocated lives: The experience of women survivors of family and domestic violence after being ‘Hagued’
This article reports on interviews with ten women who had experienced the legal process of the 1980 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the ‘Hague Convention’ or the ‘Convention’). We refer to that experience as being ‘Hagued’. All the women were subjected to a Hague return order after fleeing family and domestic violence perpetrated by their previous partner, because they fled with their children across internationa…
The repeal of Australia’s problematic family law presumption (and other amendments): Cautiously welcomed – but what has been lost
Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: An Embodied Performance of One Woman’s Experience
This paper uses a drama-based method to illustrate the responses of healthcare and legal systems to women experiencing coercive control. This approach involved writing a play using the first-person narrative voice of a victim-survivor. We presented the play at the Stop Domestic Violence Conference (Gold Coast, Australia) in 2021. The central character, 'Kate', provided an embodied performance that enabled the conference participants to see, feel …
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (5 works) · Family law (4 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (3 works) · Project commissioning (3 works) · Publishing (3 works)