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Elyse Methven

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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney

Dr Elyse Methven is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where she teaches criminal law and sentencing. Elyse's areas of expertise include the legal regulation of offensive language, policing and penalty notices.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2017–2020
    Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2015–2016
    Associate lecturer, Macquarie University
  • 2011–2015
    Associate lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Education

  • 2017 
    UTS, Doctor of Philosophy (Law)
  • 2008 
    UTS, Bachelor of Laws (Hons.)

Publications

  • 2024
    It might be powerful; but is it offensive? Unpacking judicial views on the c-word, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
  • 2023
    Skipping straight to the punishment: criminal infringement notices and factors that influence police discretion, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
  • 2022
    There is no need for anyone to be concerned”: The discursive legitimation of coercive police powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Revista de Llengua i Dret
  • 2020
    A death sentence for swearing: the fatal consequences of the failure to decriminalise offensive language, Griffith Law Review
  • 2020
    ‘A Woman’s Tongue’: Representations of Gender and Swearing in Australian Legal and Media Discourse, Australian Feminist Law Journal
  • 2020
    Commodifying Justice: Discursive Strategies Used in the Legitimation of Infringement Notices for Minor Offences, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
  • 2020
    Life in the shadow carceral state: Surveillance and control of refugees in Australia, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
  • 2019
    Dancing with Death: Why the NSW Homicide Offence of Drug Supply Causing Death May Cause More Harm than Good, Criminal Law Journal
  • 2019
    Cheap and Efficient Justice? Neoliberal Discourse and Criminal Infringement Notices, University of Western Australia Law Review
  • 2019
    The controversial case of Lawyer X: Should lawyers be prevented from acting as human sources?, Alternative Law Journal
  • 2017
    Offensive Language Crimes in Law, Media, and Popular Culture, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • 2016
    Serious Crime Prevention Orders, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
  • 2016
    'Weeds of our own Making': Language Ideologies, Swearing and the Criminal Law, Law in Context
  • 2015
    We will decide who comes to this country, and how they behave: A critical reading of the asylum seeker Code of Behaviour, Alternative Law Journal
  • 2014
    'A Very Expensive Lesson': Counting the Costs of Penalty Notices for Anti-social Behaviour, Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    Early career research grant
    Role:
    Lecturer
    Funding Source:
    University of Technology Sydney
  • 2016
    Early career research grant
    Role:
    Associate Lecturer
    Funding Source:
    Macquarie University
  • 2011
    Quentin Bryce Doctoral Scholarship
    Role:
    Doctoral student
    Funding Source:
    University of Technology Sydney