Dr. Stella Tarrant

Biography

Associate Professor Stella Tarrant graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Honors) and later obtained a Master of Laws from Yale University. She began her career as an Associate Justice for Toohey at the High Court of Australia and worked as a solicitor for the Land Heritage Unit of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Western Australia. In 1996, she joined the Law Faculty at the University of Western Australia, where she took a brief break to focus on raising her children before resuming her teaching role at UWA Law School in 2009 and her research career in 2013. Her research primarily focuses on Criminal Law, Criminal Law Theory, and Gender Law, exploring the impact of law on women's lives and the role law plays in maintaining gender relations in society. Notable areas of her research include constitutional law and reproductive technology law, with current projects addressing gender equality, law, and self-defense, alongside the incorporation of philosophical methods into Gender Law teaching. Professor Tarrant teaches courses including Criminal Law, Evidence, and Gender Law, and has previously taught feminist jurisprudence across LLB, LLM, and SJD courses.

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