Dr Tristan Taylor
Lecturer, School of Law
Qualifications
PhD (Yale) 2010, MPhil (Yale) 2007, MA (Yale) 2006, MA (UTas) 2006, BA/LLB (Hons)(UTas) 2000, BA (Hons)(UTas) 1998
Contact
| Email: | tristan.taylor@une.edu.au |
| Room: | EBL W38 49 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3671 (or +61 2 6773 3671 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2580 |
Tristan comes to UNE via circuitous route following completion of his law degree at the University of Tasmania in 2000, completing an Honours thesis on quota management in Australian fisheries. He has most recently completed a PhD in Classics at Yale University, working as both an Acting Instructor and Teaching Fellow in Latin, Greek and Roman History. In addition, he has completed an MA by thesis at the University of Tasmania in Roman Law. He has worked professionally along the way in Fisheries Law, the Law of the Sea, Indigenous Law, Natural Resources Law and Environmental Law in consultancies and for the Commonwealth National Oceans Office.
His main research interests are Roman Law and Society, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, Comparative Genocide Studies, Criminal Law and Criminology and International Law.
Affiliations
Member of Australasian Law Teachers’ Association
American Philological Association
Australasian Society of Classical Studies
Classical Association (UK)
Association of Ancient Historians.
Areas of Teaching
Teaching Responsibilities:
LS 100 Introduction to Legal Systems and Methods; LS 160 Criminal Law; LS 341 Introduction to Environmental Law; LS 396 Special Studies in Law – Roman Law and Society; CLLA 101 – Introduction to Classical Languages; CLLA 102 Classical Languages through Reading; CLLA 202 Intermediate Classical Languages; CLLA 302 Advanced Classical Languages; CLLA 401H Latin Hons Coursework.
PhD Co-Supervision – Heresy and the Theodosian Code
Teaching Interests:
Roman Law; International Law; Environmental Law; Classical Languages; Ancient History; Comparative Genocide Studies.
Research interests
Tyrants and Saviours, Emperors and Pretenders. Usurpation in the Roman Empire 193-305 CE. Book length project, based on the author’s PhD dissertation, on usurpation in the Roman Empire from 193-305 CE.
‘Caesar’s Gallic Genocide? A Case Study in Ancient Mass Violenec’ – article length study on mass violence in Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in the first century BCE.
‘Slave Torture as a Means of Obtaining Evidence in Attic and Roman Law’ – article length study comparing the treatment of slave torture as a means of obtaining evidence in the laws of Ancient Athens and Rome.
Research Interests:
Roman Law and Society; Comparative Genocide Studies; Roman Imperial History.
Publications
Books
C. Cook, R. Creyke, R. Geddes, and D. Hamer with T. Taylor, Laying Down the Law (8th Ed., LexisNexis Butterworths, 2011) (in Press).
Articles
T. Taylor, ‘Magic and Property: The Legal Context to Apuleius’ Apologia’ 45 (2011) Antichthon 149-66 (in press).
T. Taylor, ‘(Mis)information Revolutions’ in M. Trofomov and V. Gouschin (eds.), Antiquitas Classica (Azbuka Morse, 2011) (Forthcoming).
Reviews
T. Taylor, Review of W. Eck, Augustus (Blackwell, 2003) in Eras 6 (2004).
Refereed Conferences
‘Lost in Transmission: Themes in Third Century Coinage’, Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, January 2011.
‘More than Mere Markers: Making Magnentius’ Milestones Meaningful’, APA Conference, San Antonio, USA, January 2011.
‘(Mis)information Revolutions’. Crisis, Conflicts and Disorders in Antiquity. Internet Conference, Perm State University, Russia, August 2010.
‘Changing of the Guard: Law Following Civil War in the Late Roman Empire’: Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2010.