Rate My Professor Karen Crawley

Dr. Karen Crawley serves as Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Law School at Griffith University. Her research examines questions of law and justice through interdisciplinary methods drawn from art, literature, film, and popular culture. Crawley's academic interests include law and culture, legal aesthetics, feminist legal theory, and law and visual culture. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wollongong. As an interdisciplinary scholar in law and the humanities, she focuses on combatting state violence and reconceptualizing justice via cultural sources. Crawley is affiliated with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and the university's Gender Equality Research Network.

Crawley has advanced cultural legal studies through editorial leadership and key publications. She is Open Space Editor of the Griffith Law Review and Managing Editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal. Notable edited volumes include Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation (Routledge, 2017, co-edited with William P. MacNeil and Timothy D. Peters), Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses (Routledge, 2020, co-edited with Kim D. Weinert and Kieran Tranter), and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies. Her peer-reviewed articles feature 'Justice for Ms Dhu' (Social & Legal Studies, 2018, with Pauline Klippmark), 'Telling stories of rape, revenge and redemption in the age of #metoo' (Feminist Criminology, 2019), 'Forms of Authority Beyond the Neoliberal State: Sovereignty, Politics and Aesthetics' (Law and Critique, 2018, with Chris Butler), 'Representations of Rwandan Women and their Children Born of Rape' (2012, with Olivera Simic), and 'Policing and Performing Norm and Ahmed in 1969' (2010). She contributes to public discourse through panels on law, art, and politics, such as discussions at the Griffith University Art Museum and ANU Law School. Crawley teaches courses including Legal Research Methods at Griffith Law School.