Dr Arlie Loughnan
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Profile
Degrees
- BA (Hons) (USyd)
- LLB (Hons) (USyd)
- LLM (NYU)
- PhD (LSE)
Courses Taught
- Processes of Justice
- Criminal Law
Areas of Interest
- Criminal Law Theory
- Jurisprudence
- Legal History
- Mental Health Law
- Feminist Theory
Brief Biographical Detail
Dr Arlie Loughnan joined the Faculty in 2007. Her research is focused on criminal law and the criminal justice system. Her particular interests relate to conceptions of criminal responsibility, the interaction of legal and expert medical knowledge and the historical development of the criminal law.
Arlie is completing a PhD thesis at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her doctoral thesis develops a conceptual analysis of mental incapacity defences in criminal law. At the LSE, Arlie taught Criminal Law and coordinated the Criminal Law Theory and Social Theory Group.
Arlie has given presentations at many academic conferences, workshops and seminars, both in Australia and overseas. She has made submissions to several law reform bodies in Australia and the UK.
Publications
Works in Progress | Book Chapters | Refereed Journal Articles | Conference Papers | Other Academic Publications
- Loughnan A, ‘Putting Mental Incapacity Defences Together Again’
- Loughnan A, ‘Expert and Lay Knowledge in the Offence/Defence of Infanticide’
- Loughnan A, ‘Rethinking Exculpation on the Basis of Mental Incapacity’ in Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility: Legal, Medical and Historical Perspectives on Psychiatry in the Courtroom (I. Crozier, ed.) 2008 (Forthcoming)
- Loughnan, A, ‘'Manifest Madness': A New Approach to the Insanity Defence’ (2007) 70(3) Modern Law Review 379-401
- Loughnan, A, Putting Mental Incapacity Defences Together Again, Australian Law Teachers Association Conference, Perth, Australia, 23-26 September 2007 (Forthcoming)
- Loughnan, A, Criminal Non-Responsibility on the Basis of Mental Incapacity: Towards An Interpretative Frame, 23rd IVR Congress on Social and Legal Philosophy, Krakow, Poland, 1-8 August 2007
- Loughnan A, Rethinking Mental Incapacity Defences in Criminal Law, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, Padua, Italy, June 2007
- Loughnan A, The Defence of Automatism in Criminal Law, Society of Legal Scholars, Keele University, 4-8 September 2006
- Loughnan A, ‘Where Reason is Dethroned’: A History of the ‘Defence’ of Intoxication, Workshop on Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility: Legal, Medical and Historical Perspectives on Psychiatry in the Courtroom, University of Edinburgh, 8-9 March 2006
- Loughnan A, ‘The Defence of Diminished Responsibility in England and Wales’, American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘Change and Continuity in the Insanity Defence’ British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Leeds, July 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘Manifest Madness: The History of the Insanity Defence’, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, Université De René Decartes, Paris, July 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘The Insanity Defence in England and Wales’, Socio-Legal Studies Association, University of Liverpool, March 2005.
- Loughnan A, ‘Understanding Fitness to Plead’ Law and society Conference, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, December 2004.
- Loughnan A, ‘Infanticide in Australia and the UK’, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, University of Portsmouth, July 2004 (Winner, Postgraduate Student Paper Prize)
- Loughnan A,’Gender and the “New Biologism” of the Criminal Law’, Twentieth Anniversary Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, July 2003.
- Loughnan A, ‘How Far can Fallen Women Fall?’ A Narrative of Sex and Self in Prison’, British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Keele University, August 2002 (Poster).
- Loughnan A, ‘Her Heart was good but her mind was bad’: Media, Motherhood and Madness, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, The University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2002.
- Loughnan A, ‘No Matter how deep the Craving’: An Exploration of the Treatment of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy by Australian Courts, International Association of Law and Mental Health Congress, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 2001
- Loughnan A, ‘Judging the Family: An Evaluation of Apprehended Violence orders in Travis County, Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin, USA, January 2000.
- Loughnan, A ‘Lay Truth: The Role of Lay Understandings of Mental Illness in Mental Incapacity Defences’, Criminal Justice Matters, December 2005
- (Book Review) V. Tadros ‘Criminal Responsibility’, Edinburgh University Law Review January 2007
- (Book Review) E. Mitchell ‘Self-Made Madness: Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility’ Modern Law Review 68(3) May 2005
- Loughnan A, ‘Kin Kava: An Evaluation of Legislative Developments in the Northern Territory’, July 1999 Indigenous Law Bulletin
