Ngaire Naffine

Biography

Ngaire Naffine is Bonython Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide. She has published in the areas of criminology, criminal law, jurisprudence, feminist legal theory and medical law. Her most recent monograph is Law's Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person (Hart 2009). She has been a Visiting International Scholar at the Hastings Bioethics Center in Garrison New York; a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the European University Institute in Florence Italy; as well as Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland- Marshall College of Law, Cleveland and Genest Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her current research is on the concept of the person within the discipline of criminal law. Ngaire Naffine is Bonython Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide. She has published in the areas of criminology, criminal law, jurisprudence, feminist legal theory and medical law. Her most recent monograph is Law's Meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person (Hart 2009). She has been a Visiting International Scholar at the Hastings Bioethics Center in Garrison New York; a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the European University Institute in Florence Italy; as well as Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland- Marshall College of Law, Cleveland and Genest Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Her current research is on the concept of the person within the discipline of criminal law.

Research Interest

Legal Theory, Criminal Law, Medical Law, Feminist Theory