About Dr Arlie Loughnan
Arlie's research interests include: Criminal Law Theory; Jurisprudence; Legal History; Mental Health Law; and Feminist Theory.
Dr Arlie Loughnan joined the Faculty in 2007. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA Hons 1 LLB Hons 1), New York University Law School (LLM) and London School of Economics (PhD).
Arlie is a member of the Criminal Law Committee, NSW Law Society. She is also a member of the Institute of Criminology and the book review editor for Institute's journal, Current Issues in Criminal Justice]]. She is convenor of the Criminal Responsibility and Punitive Justice research hub within the Institute of Criminology.
In Semester 2, 2010, Arlie will be a Visiting Fellow in the Law Department at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Arlie's research concerns criminal law and the criminal justice system, with a focus on the relationship between legal doctrines, practices, institutions and knowledge. Her particular interests are constructions of criminal responsibility, the interaction of legal and expert medical knowledges and the historical development of the criminal law.
Current projects include a study of the significance of pre-trial processes for the legitimacy of the criminal trial and a co-authored text (with Mark Findlay and Thalia Anthony), Criminal Law and Process: Contexts and Problems (OUP, forthcoming). In 2011, Arlie will be the Guest Editor of a special edition of Legal History, on Historical Approaches to Criminal Responsibility.
Arlie's interest in criminal law theory continues doctoral work undertaken in the UK. Arlie completed a PhD in Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Arlie's doctoral thesis developed an interpretive analysis of mental incapacity defences in criminal law. At the LSE, Arlie taught Criminal Law and coordinated the Criminal Law Theory and Social Theory Group.
Selected publications
- Loughnan, A, ‘Legitimacy and the Criminal Trial: The Significance of Pre-trial Processes'
- Loughnan, A, ‘Putting Mental Incapacity Defences Together Again’
- Loughnan, A, (with Buchanan, P) ‘Sleep-related Offending’
- Loughnan, A (with Ward, T), 'Insanity in England and Wales, 1800-present day'' in Crozier, Oosterhuis and Wetzell (eds), Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility: Comparative Historical Perspectives on Forensic Psychiatry (2011, Forthcoming)
- Loughnan, A, ‘Drink Spiking and Rock Throwing: The Creation and Construction of Criminal Offences in the Current Era’ (2010) 35(1) Alternative Law Journal 18-21
- Loughnan, A (with Shackel, R), 'The Travails of Postgraduate Research in Law' (2009) 19 (1&2) Legal Education Review 99-132
- Loughnan A, ‘Manifest Madness’: Towards A New Understanding of the Insanity Defence’, Modern Law Review May 2007 379-401
- Loughnan, A, ‘Bodies of Mind'?: An historical perspective on evidence and proof of Mental Incapacity', International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, New York, USA, July 2009
- Loughnan, A, ‘Putting Mental Incapacity Defences Together Again’, Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, June 2008
- Loughnan, A, 'Criminal Non-Responsibility on the Basis of Mental Incapacity: Towards An Interpretative Frame', 23rd IVR Congress on Social and Legal Philosophy, Krakow, Poland, 1-8 August 2007
- Loughnan A, 'Rethinking Mental Incapacity Defences in Criminal Law', International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, Padua, Italy, June 2007
- Loughnan A, 'The Defence of Automatism in Criminal Law', Society of Legal Scholars, Keele University, 4-8 September 2006
- Loughnan A, ‘Where Reason is Dethroned’: A History of the ‘Defence’ of Intoxication, Workshop on Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility: Legal, Medical and Historical Perspectives on Psychiatry in the Courtroom, University of Edinburgh, 8-9 March 2006
- Loughnan A, ‘The Defence of Diminished Responsibility in England and Wales’, American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘Change and Continuity in the Insanity Defence’ British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Leeds, July 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘Manifest Madness: The History of the Insanity Defence’, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, Université De René Decartes, Paris, July 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘The Insanity Defence in England and Wales’, Socio-Legal Studies Association, University of Liverpool, March 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘Understanding Fitness to Plead’ Law and society Conference, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2004.
- Loughnan A, ‘Infanticide in Australia and the UK’, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Portsmouth, July 2004 (Winner, Postgraduate Student Paper Prize)
- Loughnan A,’Gender and the “New Biologism” of the Criminal Law’, Twentieth Anniversary Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, July 2003.
- Loughnan A, ‘How Far can Fallen Women Fall?’ A Narrative of Sex and Self in Prison’, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Keele University, August 2002 (Poster).
- Loughnan A, ‘Her Heart was good but her mind was bad’: Media, Motherhood and Madness, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, The University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2002.
- Loughnan A, ‘No Matter how deep the Craving’: An Exploration of the Treatment of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy by Australian Courts, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 2001
- Loughnan A, ‘Judging the Family: An Evaluation of Apprehended Violence orders in Travis County, Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin, USA, January 2000.
- Loughnan, A ‘Lay Truth: The Role of Lay Understandings of Mental Illness in Mental Incapacity Defences’, Criminal Justice Matters, December 2005
- (Book Review) V. Tadros ‘Criminal Responsibility’, Edinburgh University Law Review January 2007
- (Book Review) E. Mitchell ‘Self-Made Madness: Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility’ Modern Law Review 68(3) May 2005
- Loughnan A, ‘Kin Kava: An Evaluation of Legislative Developments in the Northern Territory’, July 1999 Indigenous Law Bulletin