Assoc.Prof Brian Simpson
Assoc.Prof, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
BA, LLB, LLM (Monash) PhD (La Trobe) Grad. Dip. Regional and Urban Planning, M. Regional and Urban Planning (Uni SA), Barrister and Solicitor (Vic & SA), Member, Planning Institute of Australia (Graduate)
Contact
| Email: | brian.simpson@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W038 51 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3708 (or +61 2 6773 3708 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Associate Professor Brian Simpson joined the School of Law in 2006. He was previously at Keele University in the United Kingdom. He has also held positions at Monash, La Trobe, James Cook and Flinders Universities. His research interests are in the areas of children and the law and the rights of marginalised groups in urban space. He has written on children’s rights in fields such as television law, cyberspace, juvenile justice and urban planning and design. His current research projects and interests include the co-authoring of a book on the interaction of tourism with human rights; the rights of children in the new media; and the role of law in regional and urban planning and design.
His teaching interests include family law, juvenile justice and child protection law, and law and social welfare.
Selected Publications
Book
- Children and Television, (London and New York, Continuum Books, 2004), 207pp.
Book in progress
- From Heritage to Terrorism: Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty (to be published by Glasshouse, London, 2006) (with C. Simpson)
Chapters in books
- ‘Cities as Playgrounds: Active Leisure for Children as a Human Right’ in J.Caudwell & P.Bramham (eds) Sport, Active Leisure and Youth Culture (LSA Publication No. 86, Brighton, 2005), pp.3-23.
- ‘The Legal Boundaries of Tourism: The State versus the Marketplace in Defining the Tourist’ in N.Ravenscroft, D.Philips & M.Bennet (eds) Tourism and Visitor Attractions: Leisure, Culture and Commerce (LSA Publication No. 61, Brighton, 1998), pp.41-59.
- ‘Inappropriate or Inevitable? The Role of the Law in Planning for the Illicit Leisure Activities of Young People’ in S.Scraton (ed) Leisure, Time and Space: Meanings and Values in People’s Lives (LSA Publication No.57, Brighton, 1998), pp.147-165.
- ‘Youth Crime, the Media and Moral Panic’ in J.Bessant & R.Hil (eds) Reporting Law and Order: Youth Crime and the Media: Media representation of and reaction to young people in relation to law and order (Hobart, National Clearing House for Youth Studies, 1997), pp.9-15.
Articles
- ‘Identity Manipulation in Cyberspace as a Leisure Option: Play and the exploration of self’ Information and Communications Technology Law Vol.14 No.2, 2005, pp.115-131.
- ‘Childhood Obesity and the Importance of Rights Discourse: A Way Forward for Public Health Practitioners’ Environmental Health, 4 (1), 2004, pp.53-61. (with C. Simpson)
- Murder, prostitution and patriarchy: why serial killing is a feminist issue, Alternative Law Journal, 26, 2001, pp.278-280.
- Storm in a wine glass: the politics of prostitution law reform in South Australia, Alternative Law Journal, 25, 2000, pp.79-81, 87.
- Towards the Participation of Children and Young People in Urban Planning and Design, Urban Studies, 34, 1997, pp.907-925.
- ‘Moderate and Reasonable’? The Early History of the Administrative Regulation of Corporal Punishment in Victorian State Schools, History of Education Review, 25, 1996, pp.23-37
Conference Papers
- ‘Creating Childhood on the Internet: Children, Ideology and Cyberspace’, Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies, International Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 29 – July 3, 2005
- ‘The End of Tourism, the Beginning of Law?’ 4th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism The End of Tourism? Mobility and Local –Global Connections, University of Brighton, June 23-24 2005 (with C.Simpson)
- ‘Constructing the Child: Cyberspace, Body Modification and Play’ Body Modification Mark II conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, April 21-23, 2005
- ‘From Family First to the FBI: How the Internet Kills Childhood’ Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, March 30 –April 1, 2005
Submissions to Parliamentary Committees, Law Reform Commissions
- Submission to New South Wales Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Surveillance (cited in NSWLRC Report No.98 Surveillance: an interim report, (2001), para.3.59)
- Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Children and the Legal Process (cited in ALRC Report No.84 Seen and Heard: Priority for Children in the Legal Process, (1997) paras. 11.37, 11.39)