Associate Professor Brian Simpson

School of Law, University of New England

Qualifications

BA, LLB, LLM (Monash) PhD (La Trobe) Grad. Dip. Regional and Urban Planning, M. Regional and Urban Planning (Uni SA), Barrister and Solicitor (Vic & SA), Member, Planning Institute of Australia (Graduate)

Contact

Phone: 61 2 6773 3708

Email: brian.simpson@une.edu.au

Homepage

http://www.une.edu.au/law/staff/bsimpson.php

Research Interests

• Children and the Law
• Television Law
• Cyberspace
• Juvenile Justice
• Interaction of Tourism with Human Rights
• Rights of Children in the New Media
• Role of Law in Regional and Urban Planning and Design

Teaching Interests

• Family Law
• Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Law
• Law and Social Welfare

Publications

• 'Children and Television', (London and New York, Continuum Books, 2004), 207pp
• 'From Heritage to Terrorism: Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty' (to be published by Glasshouse, London, 2006) (with C. Simpson)
• ‘Cities as Playgrounds: Active Leisure for Children as a Human Right’ in J.Caudwell & P.Bramham (eds) Sport, Active Leisure and Youth Culture (LSA Publication No. 86, Brighton, 2005), pp.3-23
• ‘The Legal Boundaries of Tourism: The State versus the Marketplace in Defining the Tourist’ in N.Ravenscroft, D.Philips & M.Bennet (eds) Tourism and Visitor Attractions: Leisure, Culture and Commerce (LSA Publication No. 61, Brighton, 1998), pp.41-59
• ‘Inappropriate or Inevitable? The Role of the Law in Planning for the Illicit Leisure Activities of Young People’ in S.Scraton (ed) Leisure, Time and Space: Meanings and Values in People’s Lives (LSA Publication No.57, Brighton, 1998), pp.147-165
• ‘Youth Crime, the Media and Moral Panic’ in J.Bessant & R.Hil (eds) Reporting Law and Order: Youth Crime and the Media: Media representation of and reaction to young people in relation to law and order (Hobart, National Clearing House for Youth Studies, 1997), pp.9-15
• ‘Identity Manipulation in Cyberspace as a Leisure Option: Play and the exploration of self’ Information and Communications Technology Law Vol.14 No.2, 2005, pp.115-131
• ‘Childhood Obesity and the Importance of Rights Discourse: A Way Forward for Public Health Practitioners’ Environmental Health, 4 (1), 2004, pp.53-61. (with C. Simpson)
• Murder, prostitution and patriarchy: why serial killing is a feminist issue, Alternative Law Journal, 26, 2001, pp.278-280
• Storm in a wine glass: the politics of prostitution law reform in South Australia, Alternative Law Journal, 25, 2000, pp.79-81, 87
• Towards the Participation of Children and Young People in Urban Planning and Design, Urban Studies, 34, 1997, pp.907-925
• ‘Moderate and Reasonable’? The Early History of the Administrative Regulation of Corporal Punishment in Victorian State Schools, History of Education Review, 25, 1996, pp.23-37
• ‘Creating Childhood on the Internet: Children, Ideology and Cyberspace’, Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies, International Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 29 – July 3, 2005
• ‘The End of Tourism, the Beginning of Law?’ 4th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism The End of Tourism? Mobility and Local –Global Connections, University of Brighton, June 23-24 2005 (with C.Simpson)
• ‘Constructing the Child: Cyberspace, Body Modification and Play’ Body Modification Mark II conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, April 21-23, 2005
• ‘From Family First to the FBI: How the Internet Kills Childhood’ Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, March 30 –April 1, 2005