ProfessorKate Seear

Professor, Law

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

  • Professor, Law
    Faculty 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 TAUGHT
    MLL427
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    MLP720
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Coca, gender and the ontopolitics of human rights in the Colombian Peace Process
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
    Lead supervisor
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Examination of prescription opioid-related risks using prescription drug monitoring programs and clinical screening tools
    11 Mar 2019 - 8 Aug 2022
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Motherly Guilt: Motherhood, Emotion, and Injustice in the Inquiry into the Convictions of Kathleen Folbigg
    1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2019
    Lead supervisor
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Conceptualising Addiction as a Disability in Discrimination Law: A Situated Comparison
    1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2018
    Lead supervisor
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Raw milk, regulation and multiplicity: uncovering the object(s) of regulation
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2018
    Lead supervisor
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Exploration of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Clinical Legal Education
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2020
    Lead supervisor
  • UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Producing Alcohol or Other Drug ‘Dependence’ in an Australian Drug Court: A Victorian Case Study
    1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2018
    Lead supervisor
  • EXTERNAL SUPERVISION
    Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) use in pregnancy: Treatment engagement and perspectives on barriers to recovery
    1 Jan 2025
    Associate supervisor
  • EXTERNAL SUPERVISION
    Exploring young women’s pharmaceutical psychostimulant, alcohol, and other drug consumption: A qualitative exploration of ‘prescribed’ and ‘non-prescribed’ consumption practices
    25 Mar 2024