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Biography

Kirsten Anker teaches property, legal theory and Aboriginal law/Indigenous legal traditions, with research interests extending also to evidence,聽dispute resolution, resource management and聽legal education. Her book Declarations of Interdependence: A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous聽Rights聽explores various aspects of claiming Native (Aboriginal) Title as a way to inspire a re-imagination of law.聽 She has written widely on the challenge to orthodox understandings of law and sovereignty posed by the recognition in Australia and Canada that Indigenous law 鈥渋ntersects鈥� or co-exists with state law, and draws on studies in legal theory, anthropology, Indigenous and occidental philosophy, translation and language.聽 Current projects include work on Indigenous legal traditions in formal legal education, non-static digital mapping in land claims, the privatisation of Indigenous consultation, and ecological jurisprudence.

Employment

• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2016-
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2007-2016
• Visiting Lecturer, London School of Economics Faculty of Law, 2006
• Boulton Fellow, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2004
• Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 2000-2003
• Instructor, AUSAID Indonesia/Australia Specialist Training Project in Intellectual Property, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, 2000-2001

Awards

• Richard M. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law, American Society of Comparative Law

Education

• PhD University of Sydney
• LLB University of Sydney
• BSc University of Sydney, Physics

Areas of interest

Property law, Aboriginal peoples and the law, Indigenous jurisprudence, legal theory, legal anthropology/sociology, science studies, law and language

Selected publications

Books/Monographs

• Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert (eds), (London: Routledge, 2021)
• Kirsten Anker, (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2014)
  Chapter 4 reprinted in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds), Language Rights (London: Routledge, 2016)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 鈥楢boriginal Title and Alternative Cartographies鈥� (2018) 11(1) Erasmus Law Journal 14-30. .
• 鈥楲aw As鈥� Forest: Eco-logics, Stories and Spirits in Indigenous Jurisprudence鈥� (2017) 21 Law Text Culture 191-213. .
• 鈥楻econciliation in Translation: Indigenous Legal Traditions and Canada鈥檚 Truth and Reconciliation Commission鈥� (2016) 33(1) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 15-43. .
• 鈥楾ranslating Sui Generis Aboriginal Rights and the Civilian Imagination鈥� in Les intraduisibles en droit civil (Montreal: Th茅mis, 2014). .
• 鈥楾eaching 鈥淚ndigenous Peoples and the Law鈥�: Whose Law?鈥� (2008) 33:3 Alternative Law Journal 132. .
• 鈥楾he Truth in Painting: Cultural Artefacts as Proof of Native Title鈥� (2005) 9 Law Text Culture 91. Reprinted in Eve Darian-Smith, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). .

Books chapters

• with Mark Antaki, 鈥業magination鈥� in Karen Crawley, Thomas Giddens and Timothy Peters (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies (London: Routledge forthcoming)
• with Mark Antaki, 鈥楾he Superfactual Anthropocene and Encounters with Indigenous Legal Traditions鈥� in Peter Burdon and James Martel (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene (London: Routledge, 2023)
• 鈥楶lural Property鈥� in Nicole Graham, Margaret Davies and Lee Godden (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society (London: Routledge, 2023)
• 鈥楾o Be is To Be Entangled: Indigenous Treaty-Making, Relational Legalities and the Ecological Grounds of Law鈥� in Nico Krisch (ed), Entangled Legalities Beyond the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• 鈥淚ndigenous Law: What non-Indigenous People Can Learn From Indigenous Legal Thought鈥� in Mariana Valverde, Kamari M. Clarke, Eve Darian Smith, and Prabha Kotiswaran (eds), (London: Routledge, 2021)
• 鈥淓cological Law and Indigenous Relational Ontologies: Beyond the 鈥楨cological Indian鈥�?鈥� in Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert (eds), (London: Routledge, 2021). .
• 鈥溾�楥olonialism and Access to a Disenchanted Earth鈥� in Ya毛ll Emerich et Laurence Saint-Pierre Harvey (eds), (Montreal: Th茅mis, 2019). .
• 鈥楶ostcolonial Jurisprudence and the Pluralist Turn: From Making Space to Being in Place鈥� in Nicole Roughan and Andrew Halpin (eds), In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (pp.261-293)
• 鈥楲aw, Culture and Fact in Indigenous Claims: Legal Pluralism as a Problem of Recognition鈥� in Ren茅 Provost (ed), Centaur Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• 鈥楥ontextualizing Governance鈥� in Daniel Jutras, Rosalie Jukier and Richard Janda, The Unbounded Level of the Mind: Rod Macdonald鈥檚 Legal Imagination (Montreal: 91社区-Queens University Press, 2015)
• "Symptoms of Sovereignty? Apologies, Indigenous Rights and Reconciliation in Australia and Canada" in Peer Zumbansen and Ruth Buchanen (eds), Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014).

Book Reviews

• 鈥楤ook Review: Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples: Canada, Australia and New Zealand鈥� (2012) 85 Pacific Affairs 446
• 鈥榃e, the Nomads: A Review of Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law鈥� (2011) 7 91社区 International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy 233

Other

• 鈥楤etween a Rock and a Sacred Place: The Limits of Aboriginal Title and Freedom of Religion in Ktunaxa v. BC鈥� IACL-AIDC Blog (International Association of Constitutional Law) 17 August 2018
• Special Issue Guest Editor 鈥� Signs in and of Place: Indigenous Issues in the Semiotics of Law, (2015) 28(4) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
• with Ben Hightower, 鈥業ntroduction: (Re)Imagining Law: Marginalised Bodies/Indigenous Spaces鈥� (2015) 28(4) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 1-8
• Indigenous Legal Traditions and Indian Residential Schools: Law, Sovereignty and Reconciliation in Translation (May 2013) Working Paper prepared for the Canadian Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• 'Land鈥� (June 2012) 91社区 Companion to Law