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Assoc.Prof Brian Simpson

Brian Simpson

Associate Professor, 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, High Court of Australia)

Contact

Email:
Room: W038 51
Phone: 02 6773 3708 (or +61 2 6773 3708 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 2580

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 a book which takes a critical perspective on law and the new social media; the rights of children in the new media; open educational resources (ALTC funded project), a book on new perspectives on law and sexuality, and the role of law in regional and urban planning and design. He is a member of the team which established the Bachelor of Social Work degree at UNE and which received the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award in 2008 for interdisciplinary collaboration for the design of that degree. He continues to teach two units into that program. He also established a new unit ‘Street Law Clinic’ in 2011, which is only the second street law unit in an Australian University.

His teaching interests include family law, juvenile justice and child protection law, and law and social welfare.

Publications

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Selected Publications

 

Books

  • B. Simpson & C. Simpson From Heritage to Terrorism: Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty (Routledge, Glasshouse, Oxford, 2010), 195pp.
  • B. Simpson Children and Television, (London and New York, Continuum Books, 2004), 207pp.

Chapters in books

  • B. Simpson (2011) ‘The Facebook Family: Information and Communication Technology Redrafting the Rules of Participation in Family Life in H. Greif, L. Hjorth, A. Lasén and C. Lobert-Maris (eds) Cultures of Participation: Media Practices, Politics and Literacy (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2011), pp.181-94.
  • B. Simpson (2009) ‘“The Scourge of Residential Streets”: The Legal (Mis)construction of Street Racing as Anti-Social Behaviour’ in J. Ormrod and B. Wheaton (eds) On the Edge: Leisure, Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports (LSA Publication, No. 104, Brighton, UK), pp.71-94
  • B. Simpson (2009) ‘Competing for the City: Child Friendly Cities, Children’s Rights and Tourism’ in S. Fleming (ed) Leisure and Tourism: International Perspectives on Cultural Practice (LSA Publication, No. 106, Brighton, UK), pp.139-153
  • B. Simpson (2008) ‘Child Poverty, Homelessness and the Exploitation of Children’ in G. Monahan & L. Young (eds) Children and the Law in Australia (LexisNexis), pp.122-145.
  • B. Simpson (2008) ‘Health, Housing and Social Security’ in G. Monahan & L. Young (eds) Children and the Law in Australia (LexisNexis), pp. 256-275.
  • B. Simpson & C. Simpson (2007) ‘The End of Tourism, the Beginning of Law’ in P. Burns and M. Novelli (eds) Tourism and Politics: Local frameworks and global realities’ (Pergamon/Elsevier, Advances in Tourism Research Series) pp.369-387

Articles

  • B. Simpson (2011) ‘Sexualising the child: the strange case of Bill Henson, his ‘absolutely revolting images’ and the law of childhood innocence’ Sexualities Vol 14 No 3, pp. 290-311.
  • B. Simpson (2011) ‘What happens online stays online? Virtual punishment in the real world’ Information and Communications Technology Law, Vol 20, No. 1, pp.3-17.
  • B. Simpson (2010) ‘Constructing childhood sexuality in teacher-student sexual relationships’ Child and Family Law Quarterly, Vol 22 No 3 310-327.
  • B. Simpson (2009) ‘Controlling fantasy in cyberspace: cartoons, imagination and child pornography’  Information and Communications Technology Law, Vol.18 No.3 255-271.
  • B. Simpson (2008) ‘New Labor. New censorship? Politics, religion and internet filtering in Australia’ Information and Communications Technology Law, Vol.17 No.3 167-183.
  • B. Simpson (2006) ‘From Family First to the FBI: Children, Ideology and Cyberspace’ Information and Communications Technology Law, Vol.15 No.3 239-257.

 Conference Papers

  • B. Simpson ‘Social networking, inappropriate conduct and making friends: constructing online identities within teacher and student relationships in the age of Facebook’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, 12 - 14 April 2011
  • B. Simpson ‘Planning spaces for children’s sexuality’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, 12 - 14 April 2011
  • B. Simpson ‘May I have a double bed please’: aged care, sexuality and the law’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, 30 March – 1 April 2010
  • B. Simpson ‘What happens online stays online? Virtual punishment in the real world’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, 30 March – 1 April 2010
  • B. Simpson ‘The boundaries of the special place for children’s rights in EU external action: advancing children’s rights or reinforcing old stereotypes?’ Children and the European Union: Legal, Political and Research Perspectives, The Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, 20-22 April 2009
  • B. Simpson ‘Controlling fantasy in cyberspace: cartoons, imagination and child pornography’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, 7-9 April 2009
  • B. Simpson ‘Sexualising the child: the strange case of Bill Henson, his ‘absolutely revolting’ images and the law of childhood innocence’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, 7-9 April 2009
  • B. Simpson ‘Children’s rights as aspirational rights: promising much, obliging nothing?’ Whither Human Rights? 2008 Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, 10-12 December 2008
  • B. Simpson ‘Messages from Microsoft: “Enjoy the Internet along with your children”: Constructing family responsibility in cyberspace’ Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change conference, University of Sussex, 10-12 July 2008
  • B. Simpson ‘Competing for the city: child friendly cities, children’s rights and tourism’ Leisure Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference 2008, Liverpool John Moores University, 8-10 July 2008
  • B. Simpson ‘“The scourge of residential streets”: The legal (mis)construction of street racing as anti-social behaviour’ On the Edge, Leisure Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports, Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, March 18, 2008
  • B. Simpson ‘Not one foolish lapse? Constructing sexuality in teacher-student sexual relationships’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 18-20 March 2008
  • B. Simpson ‘New Labor, New Censorship? Politics, Religion and Internet Filtering in Australia’ Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 18-20 March 2008
  • B. Simpson ‘Microsoft is my parent? Controlling the internet for children: Changing boundaries of family law in cyberspace’  2007 International Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Melbourne, 29-30 November 2007
  • B. Simpson ‘Children as Monsters: Child Protection, Fear and Risk’ Australasian Law and Society Conference, University of Wollongong, 13-15 December 2006

Submissions to Parliamentary Committees, Law Reform Commissions

  • Submission to Senate Legal And Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry Into The Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009 (August 2009)
  • Submission to Australian Communications and Media Authority Children’s Television Standards Review (November, 2008)
  • Submission to Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry Into The Social Security And Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (Schooling Requirements) Bill 2008 (October, 2008)
  • Submission to Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee Inquiry Into The Sexualisation Of Children In The Contemporary Media Environment (April, 2008)

Areas of Teaching

Family law, law for social work, juvenile justice and child protection law, and law and social welfare.