Dr Angela Kintominas

Dr Angela Kintominas

Lecturer
Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Angela Kintominas (she/her) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Angela's areas of expertise include feminist and critical theoretical approaches to gender, work, social reproduction and labour law, welfare states and migration. She has worked on projects across the fields of temporary labour migration, family migration and transnational family life, global care chains and migrant care and domestic work, au pairing, surrogacy, and the platformization of care and domestic work in the gig economy.

Angela has published in Gender Work & Organization, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, and the Anti-Trafficking Review, as well as in media outlets The Conversation and Women’s Agenda. Prior to joining UNSW Law and Justice, she was a research associate with the Migrant Justice Institute (UTS/UNSW), the Social Policy Research Centre (UNSW), and CEPAR (University of Sydney).

Angela is a Managing Editor and a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law Journal. She previously served as an Editor of the Human Rights Defender and as a student Editorial Board Member of the UNSW Law Journal. She is a member of the Work and Family Policy Roundtable (W+FPR), and an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney.

Angela has a PhD in Law from UNSW Law and Justice where she was a Scientia PhD Scholar. Angela obtained a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, where she was a Lionel Murphy Scholar and was awarded the Walter Gellhorn Prize for highest academic achievement. She took part in the Columbia Gender and Sexuality Law Clinic and was a graduate intern in the gender and migration team at UN Women Headquarters, New York. Angela obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons I, Valedictorian) from UNSW Sydney. Prior to joining academia, Angela worked as solicitor and is admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Location
Room 324, Level 3, Law and Justice Building

Finalist, UNSW 3MT Competition (2022)

UNSW Postgraduate Research Council, HDR Student of the Year Award (2021)

Walter Gellhorn Prize for Highest Academic Achievement in LLM, Columbia Law School (2016)

James Kent Scholar (equiv. of First Class Honours), Columbia University Law School (2016)

Lionel Murphy Endowment Postgraduate Scholarship (2015)

Valedictorian of Graduating LLB Class, UNSW Law School (2013)

UNSW Law Dean’s List, UNSW Law (2012)

Bill Ashcroft Prize for Best Essay on Australian Literature, UNSW Faculty of Arts (2010)

 

My Teaching

Employment Law (LAWS3028/JURD7328)

Legal Research and Writing (LAWS1055/JURD7155)

Legal Research & Writing: Australian Law (LAWS1160/JURD7160) (legacy course/transitional module)

Federal Constitutional Law (LAWS2150 / JURD7250)

UG /JD Coursework Research Thesis Supervision (LAWS3423 / JURD7823)