Dr Rachael Burgin
Doctorate of Philosophy , Monash University, Australia
Biography
Dr Rachael Burgin is the lead researcher on the Reviewing ACT Policing processes relating to sexual violence in the ACT project. Contact SAPRProcessReview@swinburne.edu.au for information.
Dr Rachael Burgin is a senior lecturer in criminal justice and criminology at Swinburne Law School and the CEO of Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy (RASARA). She was awarded her PhD in 2019 from Monash University for her thesis exploring the ways that affirmative sexual consent has been adopted into law and translated into legal practice in rape trials in Victoria. Her research interests include legal responses to rape and sexual assault, consent law reform, gendered violence, feminist jurisprudence and the prevention of violence against women. Her work is among the first to critique the shift towards "objective" standards of reasonableness in rape law.
Research interests
Rape; Sexual Assault; Family Violence; Gendered Violence; Rape Law Reform; Sexual Violence; Sexual Consent; Policing Sexual Assault; Gender Equality; Affirmative Consent; Victim-Survivors
Fields of Research
- Law And Society And Socio-legal Research - 480405
- Criminology - 440200
- Other Law And Legal Studies - 489900
Further information
Publications
Also published as: Burgin, Rachael; Burgin, R.
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Recent media
- 2022-06-01: Sexual assent law is a triumph for Saxon, common sense and common decency - Sydney Morning Herald
- 2020-11-24: NSW law reform report misses chance to institute ‘yes means yes’ in sexual consent cases - The Conversation
- 2020-10-29: Explainer: why is Victoria fast-tracking reforms to sexual violence ‘gag laws’ and to what effect? - The Conversation
- 2020-08-15: The old guard preventing reform to consent laws - The Saturday Paper
- 2020-04-07: Moonman Chats To Legal Expert About Cardinal George Pell's Prison Release - Triple M
- 2020-04-07: Pell to walk free after Australia court quashes convictions - Al Jazeera
- 2020-03-11: Northern Territory sexual assault court outcomes spark calls for law reform - ABC Darwin
- 2020-03-03: Interview - 3CR Radio
- 2020-02-12: Interview - ABC Melbourne
- 2019-12-11: Australian law doesn’t go far enough to legislate affirmative consent. NSW now has a chance to get it right - The Conversation
- 2019-11-16: Proposed reforms to NSW consent law - The Saturday Paper
- 2019-10-28: Proposed changes to NSW consent laws 'potentially problematic', expert says - nine.com.au
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