Laura Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6705-5848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mobilising for effective redress: The role of international human rights complaints in police accountability in Victoria
This article analyses the role of international human rights complaints mechanisms in the police accountability landscape in Australia, focusing on individual complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) under the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Australia is a signatory. We do so through a case study of Horvath v Australia, which involved 'a disgraceful and out…
The project of police accountability: A Chimera
Paying It Back: On Litigating First Peoples’ Stolen Wages in Victoria
The Stolen Wages practices refer to the policies and actions of Australian states and territories under so-called ‘protection legislation’ throughout the 19th and 20th centuries which withheld, mismanaged and underpaid First Peoples’ wages and entitlements. In Victoria, despite decades of advocacy and a considerable body of evidence of such practices, there have been no government attempts to provide redress for the Stolen Wages. This article ana…
Why Do Back Vowels Shift in Heritage Korean
For heritage speakers (HSs), expectations of influence from the community's dominant language are pervasive. An alternative account for heritage language variability is that HSs are demonstrating sociolinguistic competence: HSs may either initiate or carry forward a pattern of variation from the homeland variety. We illustrate the importance of this consideration, querying whether /u/-fronting in Heritage Korean is best interpreted as influence f…
Reforming police accountability in the age of Treaty: The need for a new model
There is a consensus among practitioners, academics and those with lived experience of the police complaints system that the current police accountability regime in Victoria is unsafe and ineffective. Despite a slew of inquiries attesting to the problem and its ongoing harms, particularly to marginalised communities, reform in this area has been hard-won and minimal. However, we argue that the Yoorrook Justice Commission and upcoming Treaty negot…
The Gender Paradox: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Suicidal Ideation
It is important to understand the role of social determinants, such as gender, in suicidal ideation. This study examined whether conformity to specific masculine norms, particularly high self-reliance and emotional self-control, moderated the relationship between psychological distress and suicidal ideation for men. The other norms explored were those pertaining to behavioral–emotional or social hierarchy status aspects of masculinity, and whethe…
Nobody's Perfect
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense-aspect category 'perfect' by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St'át'imcets, Swahili, and Tibetan). The methodology involves using the storyboard 'Miss Smith's Bad Day' to test for the availability of experiential, resultative, recent-pa…
Still Awaiting Clarity: Why Victoria’s New Civil Liability Laws for Organisational Child Abuse Are Less Helpful than They Appear
In 2017 Victoria became the first Australian jurisdiction to initiate substantive reforms to its civil liability laws, to address barriers faced by plaintiffs seeking to hold institutions liable for child abuse. The new law, based on recommendations arising from a Victorian inquiry, establishes a statutory duty of care owed by organisations to take reasonable precautions against abuse of children under their care or supervision. On its face, the …
Law's Changing Bodies: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Law and Embodiment
Feminist scholars and theorists have long engaged with the body and questioned its relation to law. This special issue continues this legacy, while also drawing on and contributing to more recent s
Harming Women with Words: The Failure of Australian Law to Prohibit Gendered Hate Speech
In Australia, gendered hate speech against women is so pervasive and insidious that it is a normalised feature of everyday public discourse. It is often aimed at silencing women, and hindering their ability to participate effectively in civil society. As governmental bodies have recognised, sexist and misogynist language perpetuates gender-based violence by contributing to strict gender norms and constructing women as legitimate objects of hostil…
Certifying Pregnancy Loss in Australia: Registration, Recognition, and the Colonial State
This article critically analyses the recent move by registrars in most Australian jurisdictions to begin issuing ‘certificates of recognition’ for early pregnancy loss. Most immediately, these new certificates have arisen from advocacy by mothers grieving a pregnancy loss. Such advocacy reflects contemporary practices of grieving and memorialisation, themselves a product of social and technological changes in recent decades. In this context, grie…
Unravelling Rights: ‘Illegal’ Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa
This article discusses the employment experiences of Basotho migrant domestic workers in South Africa. As they generally do not possess South African identity documents, these migrants are constructed (legally, socially and discursively) as ‘illegal’ workers. In 2008, the commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and the Labour Court officially extended basic labour protections and rights to apply to foreigners working ‘illega…
Nobody's Perfect
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense-aspect category 'perfect' by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St'át'imcets, Swahili, and Tibetan). The methodology involves using the storyboard 'Miss Smith's Bad Day' to test for the availability of experiential, resultative, recent-pa…
Harming Women with Words: The Failure of Australian Law to Prohibit Gendered Hate Speech
In Australia, gendered hate speech against women is so pervasive and insidious that it is a normalised feature of everyday public discourse. It is often aimed at silencing women, and hindering their ability to participate effectively in civil society. As governmental bodies have recognised, sexist and misogynist language perpetuates gender-based violence by contributing to strict gender norms and constructing women as legitimate objects of hostil…
Unravelling Rights: ‘Illegal’ Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa
This article discusses the employment experiences of Basotho migrant domestic workers in South Africa. As they generally do not possess South African identity documents, these migrants are constructed (legally, socially and discursively) as ‘illegal’ workers. In 2008, the commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and the Labour Court officially extended basic labour protections and rights to apply to foreigners working ‘illega…
Certifying Pregnancy Loss in Australia: Registration, Recognition, and the Colonial State
This article critically analyses the recent move by registrars in most Australian jurisdictions to begin issuing ‘certificates of recognition’ for early pregnancy loss. Most immediately, these new certificates have arisen from advocacy by mothers grieving a pregnancy loss. Such advocacy reflects contemporary practices of grieving and memorialisation, themselves a product of social and technological changes in recent decades. In this context, grie…
Harming Women with Words: The Failure of Australian Law to Prohibit Gendered Hate Speech
In Australia, gendered hate speech against women is so pervasive and insidious that it is a normalised feature of everyday public discourse. It is often aimed at silencing women, and hindering their ability to participate effectively in civil society. As governmental bodies have recognised, sexist and misogynist language perpetuates gender-based violence by contributing to strict gender norms and constructing women as legitimate objects of hostil…
Law's Changing Bodies: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Law and Embodiment
Feminist scholars and theorists have long engaged with the body and questioned its relation to law. This special issue continues this legacy, while also drawing on and contributing to more recent s
Still Awaiting Clarity: Why Victoria’s New Civil Liability Laws for Organisational Child Abuse Are Less Helpful than They Appear
In 2017 Victoria became the first Australian jurisdiction to initiate substantive reforms to its civil liability laws, to address barriers faced by plaintiffs seeking to hold institutions liable for child abuse. The new law, based on recommendations arising from a Victorian inquiry, establishes a statutory duty of care owed by organisations to take reasonable precautions against abuse of children under their care or supervision. On its face, the …
The Gender Paradox: Understanding the Role of Masculinity in Suicidal Ideation
It is important to understand the role of social determinants, such as gender, in suicidal ideation. This study examined whether conformity to specific masculine norms, particularly high self-reliance and emotional self-control, moderated the relationship between psychological distress and suicidal ideation for men. The other norms explored were those pertaining to behavioral–emotional or social hierarchy status aspects of masculinity, and whethe…
Nobody's Perfect
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense-aspect category 'perfect' by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St'át'imcets, Swahili, and Tibetan). The methodology involves using the storyboard 'Miss Smith's Bad Day' to test for the availability of experiential, resultative, recent-pa…
Reforming police accountability in the age of Treaty: The need for a new model
There is a consensus among practitioners, academics and those with lived experience of the police complaints system that the current police accountability regime in Victoria is unsafe and ineffective. Despite a slew of inquiries attesting to the problem and its ongoing harms, particularly to marginalised communities, reform in this area has been hard-won and minimal. However, we argue that the Yoorrook Justice Commission and upcoming Treaty negot…
Mobilising for effective redress: The role of international human rights complaints in police accountability in Victoria
This article analyses the role of international human rights complaints mechanisms in the police accountability landscape in Australia, focusing on individual complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) under the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Australia is a signatory. We do so through a case study of Horvath v Australia, which involved 'a disgraceful and out…
The project of police accountability: A Chimera
Paying It Back: On Litigating First Peoples’ Stolen Wages in Victoria
The Stolen Wages practices refer to the policies and actions of Australian states and territories under so-called ‘protection legislation’ throughout the 19th and 20th centuries which withheld, mismanaged and underpaid First Peoples’ wages and entitlements. In Victoria, despite decades of advocacy and a considerable body of evidence of such practices, there have been no government attempts to provide redress for the Stolen Wages. This article ana…
Why Do Back Vowels Shift in Heritage Korean
For heritage speakers (HSs), expectations of influence from the community's dominant language are pervasive. An alternative account for heritage language variability is that HSs are demonstrating sociolinguistic competence: HSs may either initiate or carry forward a pattern of variation from the homeland variety. We illustrate the importance of this consideration, querying whether /u/-fronting in Heritage Korean is best interpreted as influence f…
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