First Person

Ronnit Redman
Lecturer, Faculty of Law

Ronnit Redman started in the law faculty in 2002 having come from legal practice at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

She has just been awarded the faculty’s 2004 research fellowship to pursue two projects – a project about legal constructions of disability and a joint project about refugees.

Ronnit is on the management committee of the Australian Human Rights Centre and the managing editor of the Human Rights Defender. The Defender will be relaunched at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery on Human Rights Day, December 10.

What do you like most about your job?
Freedom to think and to say what I believe. I also love being a teacher

Pet hate?
Disorderly chaos.

What are you reading at the moment?
The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck.

Best advice you’ve ever received?
Be a light unto thyself (or never go out without your own keys).

Who inspires you?
My dad and my daughter.

You’re hosting a dinner party and can invite whomever you like. Who is on your guest list?
Mark Rothko, Descartes, my Reiki teacher and my whole family.

Favourite expression?
What a complete imbroglio …

What are you good at?
Talking and laughing.

What can’t you do?
Operate the DVD (according to my 2-year-old).

The ideal meal …
is cooked by my mother, myself and my husband for the dinner party. On the menu are Jewish delicacies, excellent seafood and some really nice wine.

The stack

New books by UNSW authors

Australian Constitutional Landmarks (Cambridge Uni Press) –
George Winterton et al

Bach performance practice 1945–1975 (Ashgate Press) – Dorottya Fabian

Building ecology (Blackwell) – Peter Graham

Corrupting the youth: a history of Australian philosophy (Macleay Press) – Jim Franklin

The challenge of post-Zionism (Zed Books) – Edited by Ephraim Nimni

The first year experience (Federation Press) – Ann Game and Andrew Metcalfe

The health of refugees (Oxford) – Including pieces by Linda Bartolomei, Margaret

Cunningham, Eileen Pittaway, Derek Silove and Anthony Zwi

The king’s daughter: Hildegard of Bingen – Mary O’Connell (Handmaid Press)

The Oxford companion to the Brontes – Edited by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith (OUP)

Sea Change – movement from metropolitan to arcadian Australia (UNSW Press) –
Ian Burnley and Peter Murphy

All these titles are available from the UNSW Bookshop,
Ph 9385 6622, www.bookshop@unsw.edu.au