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Dr Emma Buxton-Namisnyk
BA (Hons 1)/LLB (Hons 1) - Macquarie University
MSt. International Human Rights Law (Distinction) - University of Oxford
Masters of Criminology and Criminal Justice - ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø
DPhil (Criminology/International Human Rights Law) - University of Oxford
Dr Emma Buxton-Namisnyk is a Lecturer in the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø Faculty of Law. She completed her DPhil as a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2022. Emma researches at the intersection of criminology and international human rights law, with a particular emphasis on domestic and family violence and sexual violence responses (including policing and specialist service responses), state responsibilities and intersecting rights. Emma also has a strong interest in legal and criminological theory and comparative human rights law.
Before commencing in ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø Faculty of Law, Emma worked extensively in the fields of domestic violence death review, coronial law and First Nations justice. Emma worked in the Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø from 2020-2021 and as a member of the Indigenous Law Centre. She was the inaugural Research Analyst on the NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team from 2012-2021 and a senior researcher on the Family is Culture Review into Aboriginal Children in Out-of-Home Care in 2018-2019. Emma has also worked as a tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Sackville AO QC at the NSW Court of Appeal, as an associate at Baker & McKenzie Sydney and as an international clerk in Bangkok.
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Winner: ANZSOC Early Career Research Award 2021 for best early career research publication in criminology.
Winner: 2022 Radzinowicz Prize for the British Journal of Criminology article that makes the 'greatest contribution to the development of criminology and criminal justice' (best article of the year).
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My Teaching
CRIM2020 - Criminal Law and Justice 1
CRIM2021 - Criminal Law and Justice 2
CRIM3012 - Violence and Victimisation
CRIM3000 - Criminology in Practice
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