ProfessorKate Seear
Professor, Law
Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
Orcid identifier0000-0002-0886-7069 (opens in a new tab)
- Professor, LawFaculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Kate is open to inquiries from students who may be contemplating higher degree research, including students interested in:
socio-legal research; alcohol, other drugs, gender and the law; drugs, human rights and sex/gender; stigma, sex/gender and the law; feminism, the body and the law; alcohol and other drugs, family and sexual violence; legal ethics; and multispecies justice. Her theoretical interests include: science and technology studies including feminist science studies, posthumanism, theories of governmentality and power (including Foucault), critical human rights and feminist and queer theory, and multispecies justice/more-than-human approaches.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- UNIT TAUGHTMLL427
- UNIT TAUGHTMLP720
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONCoca, gender and the ontopolitics of human rights in the Colombian Peace Process1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONExamination of prescription opioid-related risks using prescription drug monitoring programs and clinical screening tools11 Mar 2019 - 8 Aug 2022
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONMotherly Guilt: Motherhood, Emotion, and Injustice in the Inquiry into the Convictions of Kathleen Folbigg1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2019
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONConceptualising Addiction as a Disability in Discrimination Law: A Situated Comparison1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2018
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONRaw milk, regulation and multiplicity: uncovering the object(s) of regulation1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONAn Exploration of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Clinical Legal Education1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2020
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONProducing Alcohol or Other Drug ‘Dependence’ in an Australian Drug Court: A Victorian Case Study1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
- EXTERNAL SUPERVISIONGamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) use in pregnancy: Treatment engagement and perspectives on barriers to recovery1 Jan 2025
- EXTERNAL SUPERVISIONExploring young women’s pharmaceutical psychostimulant, alcohol, and other drug consumption: A qualitative exploration of ‘prescribed’ and ‘non-prescribed’ consumption practices25 Mar 2024