Professor Ben Golder

Professor Ben Golder

Professor
Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Professor Ben Golder is a Professor of Law based in the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the Faculty of Law + Justice at UNSW. Prior to joining UNSW, Ben taught law at the University of East London, University College London, Birkbeck College and New York University in London. His work is situated at the intersection of critical legal theory, contemporary political theory, and critical engagements with international law and human rights. He has published broadly in these and related fields, in two monographs (Foucault’s Law, written with Peter Fitzpatrick and published by Routledge, in 2009, and Foucault and the Politics of Law, published by Stanford University Press, in 2015) and in over 40 refereed journal articles and chapters in edited collections. Ben’s work has appeared in: Law, Culture and the Humanities; Law & Critique; Social and Legal Studies; Jurisprudence; Humanity; and, the International Journal of Law in Context.

Ben’s current book project examines the ways in which different assertions of human rights are made in the absence of a foundationalist claim about what it means to be a human being. Entitled Human Rights After Humanism: The Politics of Postfoundationalism, and under contract with Cambridge University Press, this new book asks what kinds of political and legal subjectivity are generated by thinking about human rights in the absence of the human, as such.

Ben has presented work at leading academic conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom and in Asia. He has been welcomed as a Research Visitor at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of Berkeley, California, and at the Centre for Critical Legal Studies at the University of Warwick. Nationally, he is an Associate Member of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne, a Research Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute and a Member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW. Ben is one of the founders, with colleagues in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture and in the Faculty of Law + Justice, of the interdisciplinary research network Critique: A Network in Social, Political and Legal Thought.

Ben has a doctorate in legal theory from the University of London (Birkbeck College) and first class honours degrees in both law and English literature from UNSW. His current editorial roles reflect his intersecting research interests. Ben is one of the Editors of Contemporary Political Theory and is a member of the Editorial Committee of Law & Critique, as well as serving on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Human Rights.

Ben actively welcomes applications to pursue postgraduate study in the areas of legal theory and jurisprudence, contemporary political theory, and critical engagements with international law and human rights. Ben is an experienced supervisor and examiner of Phd dissertations in these and related fields. Currently he is supervising topics on a diverse range of topics: a genealogy of the right to resist; a theoretical and archival analysis of the sexed, raced and gendered dimensions of Prohibition in early twentieth-century America via the work of Georges Bataille; an ethnographic account of Pakistani terror trials; and a critique of the aerial politics of migration and deportation in the Mediterranean. Beyond his intellectual interest in current and former students, Ben has a particular interest in postgraduate supervision, mentoring and career development for higher degree and early career researchers. In 2022 Ben was awarded the ARC PGC Research Supervisor Award for the Faculty of Law and Justice (a UNSW student-nominated and judged award) and the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision. In 2023 Ben was awarded the Australian Legal Education Awards Excellence in Teaching (Research Supervision) Award, as well as the Australian Council of Graduate Research's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision. At UNSW, Ben convenes an interdisciplinary Skillshare group of Higher Degree Research students (see here). Beyond UNSW, Ben collaborates with colleagues at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University to deliver ‘TASC’ (‘The Academic Skills Circle’) (see here).

A former Associate Dean for Education (2017-9) in the Faculty of Law, Ben has an ongoing interest in questions of critical legal pedagogy. Along with other colleagues, he convened the first three Legal Education Research Conferences held at UNSW in 2017, 2019 and 2021 and he is a member of the Australian Progressive Legal Studies network. Ben has taught public law and criminal law and currently teaches courses on: legal theory, law and social theory, and the politics of human rights.

Phone
+61 2 9385 1843
Location
Room 225 Level 2, The Law Building UNSW Sydney UNSW Kensington Campus Sydney NSW 2052 Australia (Access via Gate 2 off High Street)
  • Books | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Stanford University Press
    Books | 2009
    Golder BJ; Fitzpatrick P, 2009, Foucault`s Law, Routledge, Oxon, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203880562
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Golder B, 2023, 'Governmentality and the subject of rights', in Handbook on Governmentality, pp. 221 - 234
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Fitzpatrick P; Pahuja S; Joyce R; Birrell K; Golder B, 2021, 'A training in conduct', in Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities, pp. 75 - 88
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Golder B, 2021, 'Critical humanities and the human of international human rights law', in Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities, pp. 148 - 156
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Golder B, 2021, 'Human rights: Challenging universality', in The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society, pp. 146 - 149
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Golder B; Steel A; Nehme M; Vines P, 2019, 'Legal Education Research As an Imperative', in Imperatives for Legal Education Research Then, Now and Tomorrow, Routledge, pp. 3 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429426070
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Golder B, 2018, 'Human Rights Trouble? Judith Butler and the Performative Refusal of Human Rights', in Schippers B (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, pp. 25 - 45
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Golder BJ, 2017, 'Contemporary Legal Genealogies', in Desautels-Stein J; Tomlins C (ed.), Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought, Cambridge University Press, pp. 80 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316584361.005
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Golder BJ, 2017, 'On the Varieties of Universalism in Human Rights Discourse', in Agha P (ed.), Human Rights Between Law and Politics The Margin of Appreciation in Post-national Contexts, edn. Modern Studies in European Law, Hart Pub Limited
    Book Chapters | 2017
    McLoughlin DP; golder B, 2017, 'An Introduction to the Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age', in Golder B; McLoughlin D (ed.), The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age, Routledge, pp. 1 - 15
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Golder BJ, 2016, 'Theorizing Human Rights', in Hoffman F; Orford A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law, edn. Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press, pp. 684 - 700
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Golder BJ; Michaelsen C, 2014, 'Political Criminals, Terrorists, and Extra-Criminal Regimes of Punishment', in Jenkins F; Nolan M; Rubenstein K (ed.), Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, pp. 267 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139696654.018
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Golder BJ, 2012, 'Re-reading Foucault on Law, Power and Rights', in Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Golder BJ, 2012, 'The Distribution of Death: Notes Towards a Biopolitical Theory of Criminal Law', in Stone M; Wall IR; Douzinas C (ed.), New Critical Legal Thinking: Law, Politics and the Political, Routledge, UK, pp. 91 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203114469
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Golder BJ; Fitzpatrick P, 2010, 'The Laws of Michel Foucault', in Golder B; Fitzpatrick P (ed.), Foucault and Law, edn. First, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, Surry, England, pp. xi - xxvi, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9780754628668&lang=cy-gb
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Golder B; Williams G, 2008, 'What is "Terrorism"? Problems of Legal Definition', in Malleswari VB (ed.), Anti-Terrorism Laws: Global Scenario, ICFAI Amicus Books, Hyderabad, pp. 1 - 37
    Book Chapters | 2004
    Golder BJ, 2004, '"It forced me to open more than I could bear": HAD, Paedophilia, and the Discursive Limits of the Male Heterosexual Body', in Kenyon AT; Rush P (ed.), An Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 53 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(04)34003-2
  • Edited Books | 2019
    Golder B; Steel A; Nehme M; Vines P, (eds.), 2019, Imperatives of Legal Education Research, Routledge, London, https://www.routledge.com/Imperatives-for-Legal-Education-Research-Then-Now-and-Tomorrow/Golder-Nehme-Steel-Vines/p/book/9781138387805
    Edited Books | 2019
    Golder B, (ed.), 2019, Imperatives for Legal Education Research Then, Now and Tomorrow, Routledge, https://www.crcpress.com/Imperatives-for-Legal-Education-Research-Then-Now-and-Tomorrow/Golder-Nehme-Steel-Vines/p/book/9781138387805
    Edited Books | 2017
    McLoughlin DP; Golder B, (ed.), 2017, The Politics of Legality in a Neoliberal Age, routledge
    Edited Books | 2013
    Golder BJ, (ed.), 2013, Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights, Routledge, London and N.Y., http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203094563
    Edited Books | 2010
    Golder BJ; Fitzpatrick P, (ed.), 2010, Foucault and Law, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, Surry, England, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9780754628668&lang=cy-gb
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Golder B, 2023, 'International Law and the Politics of Genealogy', Global Intellectual History, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2023.2183881
    Journal articles | 2022
    Golder B, 2022, 'The politics of judicial imagination', Jurisprudence, 13, pp. 275 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2022.2088747
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B; Hush A; Jefferies R; Johns F; Nolan J, 2021, 'Foreword', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 27, pp. 399 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2022.2039056
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B; Ramshaw S, 2021, 'Introduction: Reflection on/as Supplement', Law and Critique, 32, pp. 237 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-021-09306-x
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B, 2021, 'Critiquing Human Rights', Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 12, pp. 226 - 238
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B, 2021, 'From the Crisis of Critique to the Critique of Crisis', University of Colorado law review. University of Colorado (Boulder campus). School of Law, 92, pp. 1065 - 1078, https://lawreview.colorado.edu/printed/volume92/from-the-crisis-of-critique-to-the-critique-of-crisis/
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B, 2021, 'How to do things with Foucault (legally)', International Journal of Law in Context, 17, pp. 44 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744552321000203
    Journal articles | 2021
    Golder B, 2021, 'In the present state of things', London Review of International Law, 9, pp. 421 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrab022
    Journal articles | 2020
    Dehm J; Golder B; Whyte J, 2020, 'Introduction: 'Redistributive Human Rights?' symposium', London Review of International Law, 8, pp. 225 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lraa018
    Journal articles | 2020
    Golder B, 2020, 'In Memoriam: Peter Fitzpatrick (1 November 1941—20 May 2020)', Law and Critique, 31, pp. 229 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-020-09283-7
    Journal articles | 2020
    Golder B, 2020, 'Killing Time: Law Like Death', Law, Culture and the Humanities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872120969196
    Journal articles | 2019
    Golder B, 2019, 'Human rights and the care of the self', Contemporary Political Theory, 18, pp. 42 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-00292-x
    Journal articles | 2019
    Golder B, 2019, 'The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon', Foucault Studies, pp. 102 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i26.5757
    Journal articles | 2019
    Golder B, 2019, 'Thinking Human Rights Through Metaphor', Law and Literature, 31, pp. 301 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2018.1558756
    Journal articles | 2019
    Whyte J, 2019, 'The Morals of the Market Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism', CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41296-020-00383-8
    Journal articles | 2018
    Golder B, 2018, 'On the Stakes of Legal Performativity', Australasian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 43
    Journal articles | 2016
    Golder BJ, 2016, 'On the Genealogy of Human Rights: An Essay on Nostalgia Nostalgia', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 22, pp. 17 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2016.11910940
    Journal articles | 2014
    Golder BJ, 2014, 'Beyond Redemption?: Problematizing the Critique of Human Rights in Contemporary International Legal Thought', London Review of International Law, 2, pp. 77 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lru001
    Journal articles | 2013
    Golder BJ, 2013, 'Foucault, Rights and Freedom', International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26, pp. 5 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-012-9259-8
    Journal articles | 2013
    Golder BJ, 2013, 'The Responsibility to Protect: Practice, Genealogy, Biopolitics', London Review of International Law, 1, pp. 158 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrt001
    Journal articles | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, 'Magnus Hornqvist, Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault (Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2010)', International Journal of Law in Context, 8, pp. 535 - 537
    Journal articles | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, 'Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault. By Magnus Hörnqvist, Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. vii + 177 pp. ISBN 0-415-54768-7 £75.00 hardback', International Journal of Law in Context, 8, pp. 535 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552312000407
    Journal articles | 2011
    Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law', MODERN LAW REVIEW, 74, pp. 639 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2011.00865-2.x
    Journal articles | 2011
    Golder BJ, 2011, 'Foucault`s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', Social and Legal Studies, 20, pp. 283 - 312
    Journal articles | 2011
    Golder BJ, 2011, 'Human Rights Contra Critique: Preliminary Notes on the Politics of Interpretation', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 17, pp. 185 - 214
    Journal articles | 2010
    Golder B, 2010, 'Book Review: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law By Panu Minkkinen, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. 186 + x pp. $120.00 (Cloth). ISBN: 978-0-415-47241-8', Law, Culture and the Humanities, 6, pp. 457 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17438721100060030902
    Journal articles | 2010
    Golder B, 2010, 'Panu Minkkinen, Sovereignty, Knowledge, Law (Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009)', Law, Culture and the Humanities, 6, pp. 457 - 458
    Journal articles | 2010
    Golder BJ, 2010, 'Foucault and the Unfinished Human of Rights', Law, Culture and the Humanities, 6, pp. 354 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872110374262
    Journal articles | 2010
    Golder BJ, 2010, 'What is an Anti-Humanist Human Right?', Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 16, pp. 651 - 668, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2010.509570
    Journal articles | 2009
    Golder B, 2009, 'Jennifer L. Culbert, Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)', Law, Culture and the Humanities, 5, pp. 164 - 166
    Journal articles | 2009
    Golder BJ; Ridler V; Wall I, 2009, 'Editors` introduction: `The politics of the border/the borders of the political`', Law and Critique, 20, pp. 105 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-009-9044-3
    Journal articles | 2008
    Golder B, 2008, 'Foucault and the Incompletion of Law', Leiden Journal of International Law, 21, pp. 747 - 763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0922156508005293
    Journal articles | 2008
    Golder B, 2008, 'Margaret Davies, Asking the Law Question, 3rd ed. (Sydney: Thomson Lawbook Co., 2008)', Alternative Law Journal, 33, pp. 124 - 124
    Journal articles | 2007
    Golder B, 2007, 'Foucault and the Genealogy of Pastoral Power', Radical Philosophy Review, 10, pp. 157 - 176
    Journal articles | 2006
    Golder B, 2006, 'Defining the debate [2]', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 62, pp. 5 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.2968/062003002
    Journal articles | 2006
    Golder B, 2006, 'Ian Ward, Introduction to Critical Legal Theory, 2nd ed. (London: Cavendish Publishing, 2004)', Social & Legal Studies, 15, pp. 154 - 157
    Journal articles | 2006
    Golder B, 2006, 'Ronnie Lippens, ed., Imaginary Boundaries of Justice: Social and Legal Justice across Disciplines (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005)', Modern Law Review, 69, pp. 129 - 131
    Journal articles | 2006
    Williams G; Golder BJ, 2006, 'Balancing National Security and Human Rights: Assessing the Legal Response of Common Law Nations to the Threat of Terrorism', Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 8, pp. 43 - 62
    Journal articles | 2005
    Golder B, 2005, 'Eduardo Mendieta and Jeffrey Paris, eds., 'Biopolitics and Racism', Special Issue of Radical Philosophy Review 7(1) (2004)', Foucault Studies, 3, pp. 121 - 126
    Journal articles | 2005
    Golder B, 2005, 'Elaine C. Hagopian, ed., Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (London: Pluto Press, 2004)', Current Issues in Criminal Justice -Sydney-, 1, pp. 168 - 170
    Journal articles | 2005
    Golder B, 2005, 'Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know (Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2004) and David Rose, Guantánamo: America's War on Human Rights (New York: New Press, 2004)', Sydney Law Review, 27, pp. 579 - 583
    Journal articles | 2005
    Golder B, 2005, 'Prue Vines, Law and Justice in Australia: Foundations of the Legal System (Melbourne: OUP, 2005)', Sydney Law Review, 27, pp. 181 - 183
    Journal articles | 2004
    Golder B; Williams G, 2004, 'What is Terrorism? Problems of Legal Definition', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 27, pp. 270 - 295
    Journal articles | 2004
    Golder BJ, 2004, 'From McFarlane to Melchior: Love, Sex and Commodification in the Anglo-Australian Law of Torts', Torts Law Journal, 12, pp. 1 - 27
    Journal articles | 2004
    Golder BJ, 2004, 'Law, History, Colonialism: An Orientalist Reading of Australian Native Title Law', Deakin Law Review, 9, pp. 1 - 18
    Journal articles | 2004
    Golder BJ, 2004, 'Rethinking the Subject of Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory: Towards a Feminist Foucaultian Jurisprudence', Southern Cross University Law Review, 8, pp. 73 - 95
    Journal articles | 2004
    Golder BJ, 2004, 'The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Law/Body Nexus: Towards a Poetics of Law Reform', E Law: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, 11, pp. 1 - 20
  • Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B; Joyce D, 2015, 'Teaching Human Rights Through Film', Australian National University, Canberra, presented at Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Network Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, 18 February 2015 - 18 February 2015
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, 'Contemporary Legal Genealogies', Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, presented at Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 01 June 2015 - 02 June 2015
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, 'Contemporary Legal Genealogies', Seattle, presented at Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global North and the Global South meeting of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, 28 May 2015 - 31 May 2015
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, 'Foucault and the Politics of Rights', University of Sydney, presented at Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney, 26 November 2015 - 26 November 2015
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, 'On the Genealogy of Human Rights: An Essay on Nostalgia Nostalgia', Australian National University, Canberra, presented at Aspirational Rituals: Promises and Utopias in Human Rights, Centre for International Governance and Justice, RegNet, Australian National University, Canberra, 30 July 2015 - 31 July 2015
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, 'The View from Critical Theory', Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Law School, Sydney, presented at Engaging Constitutional History Workshop, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Law School, Sydney, 25 June 2015 - 25 June 2015
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, 'What is Critical about a Genealogy of Human Rights?', Monash University, Melbourne, presented at Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, Melbourne, 23 September 2015 - 23 September 2015
    Other | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, Discussant at Author-Meets-Reader Roundtable on Irus Braverman, Wild Life: The Invention of Nature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015), University of New South Wales Law School, Sydney,
    Other | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, Discussant on Session 1 of Data Associations in Global Law and Policy, UNSW Law, Sydney,
    Other | 2015
    Golder B, 2015, Panellist on ‘Legal and Biological Norms’ at Society for the Study of Bio-political Futures and Biopolitical Studies Research Network Workshop, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Golder B, 2014, 'Human Rights and the Exhaustion of Critique', University of Melbourne, Melbourne, presented at Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 21 February 2014 - 21 February 2014
    Other | 2014
    Golder B, 2014, Author-Respondent Participant in Book Panel on Foucault and the Politics of Rights, UNSW, Sydney,
    Other | 2014
    Golder B, 2014, Discussant at Encountering the Author session on Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights Inc. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), University of Western Sydney, Sydney,
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Golder B, 2013, 'How Should we Teach the History of Human Rights?', Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, presented at Human Rights Tertiary Teachers’ Network Workshop, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 February 2013 - 25 February 2013
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Golder B, 2013, 'The Critique of Human Rights in Contemporary International Legal Thought', University of New South Wales, Sydney, presented at Law School Seminar Series, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 April 2013 - 30 April 2013
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Golder B, 2013, 'The Critique of Human Rights in Contemporary International Legal Thought', University of Nottingham, Nottingham, presented at Second Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 29 May 2013 - 30 May 2013
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Golder B, 2013, 'Theorising Human Rights', University of Melbourne, Melbourne, presented at Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory Melbourne Authors’ Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 09 August 2013 - 09 August 2013
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, 'Discussant on Anthony Langlois, 'Institutionalizing Human Rights: The Meaning of Rights in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights'', Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney, presented at The Politics of Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights: An International Research Workshop, Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney, 27 August 2012 - 29 August 2012
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, 'On How to do Things with Critical Legal History: Human Rights, Reconsidered', University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, presented at Law Research Seminar Series, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, 12 September 2012 - 12 September 2012
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, 'What Does the Recent History of Human Rights tell us about its Future?', University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, presented at Receiving Laws/Giving Laws, 31st Annual Australian and New Zealand Legal History Society Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, 10 December 2012 - 12 December 2012
    Other | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, Discussant at Author-Meets-Reader Session on Anne Orford, International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney, Sydney,
    Other | 2012
    Golder B, 2012, Discussant on session 'The Political Economy of Human Rights', University of New South Wales, Sydney,
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault and the Politics of Human Rights', Seattle, presented at The Politics of Rights, American Political Science Association Conference, Seattle, 01 September 2011 - 04 September 2011
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault's Critical Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', University of Alberta, Banff, presented at 2011 meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Alberta, Banff, 25 May 2011 - 27 May 2011
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Golder B, 2011, 'Foucault, Rights and Freedom', University of Wollongong, Wollongong, presented at Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 05 October 2011 - 05 October 2011
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Golder B, 2011, 'Limits to Critique', UTS Faculty of Law, Sydney, presented at Law and Culture Symposium, UTS Faculty of Law, Sydney, 01 July 2011 - 01 July 2011
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Golder B, 2011, 'The Limits and Possibilities of a Foucauldian Politics of Rights', Birkbeck College, London, presented at Foucault Effect: 1991-2011, Birkbeck College, London, 03 June 2011 - 04 June 2011, http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/06/ben-golder-the-limits-and-possibilities-of-a-foucauldian-politics-of-rights/
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Golder B, 2010, 'Foucault's Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', University of Melbourne, presented at Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne, 26 October 2010 - 26 October 2010
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Golder B, 2010, 'Foucault's Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights', University of Technology Sydney, presented at Law Research Seminar Series, University of Technology Sydney, 27 October 2010 - 27 October 2010
    Reports | 2009
    Golder B; Lynch A; McGarrity N; Michaelsen C; Santow E; Teeger B; Williams G, 2009, Submission to the National Security Discussion Paper, Australia
    Reports | 2009
    Golder B; Lynch A; Michaelsen C; McGarrity N, 2009, Submission to the National Human Rights Consultation, Australia
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Golder B, 2009, 'Foucault and the Unfinished Human of Rights', Melbourne, presented at Annual Australian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference, Melbourne, 05 June 2009 - 06 June 2009
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Golder B, 2009, 'Foucault and the Unfinished Human of Rights', University of Sydney, presented at Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney, 24 September 2009 - 24 September 2009
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Golder B, 2009, 'Foucault, anti-humanism and human rights', in Foucault: 25 Years On, Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Underdale, SA, presented at Centre for Post-Colonial and Globalisation Studies Conference, Foucault: 25 Years On, Adelaide, 25 June 2009, http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/publications/foucault-25-years/
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Golder B, 2008, 'Foucault and the Subject of Human Rights', London, presented at Birkbeck College School of Law Staff Workshop, The Laws of Michel Foucault, London, 02 May 2008 - 02 May 2008
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Golder B, 2007, 'Critical Ontology as Law', Colchester, presented at 8th Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Multitude, People, Resistance, Colchester, 21 June 2007 - 22 June 2007
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Golder B, 2007, 'Foucault on Ethics and Law', Berlin, presented at Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures, Berlin, 25 July 2007 - 28 July 2007
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Golder B, 2007, 'Foucault's Law: Part One', Walls, London, presented at Critical Legal Conference, Walls, London, 14 September 2007 - 16 September 2007
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Golder B, 2006, 'Racism and the Murderous Function of the State: Law and Sovereign Power in Foucault's 'Society Must Be Defended'', Gloucester, presented at 3rd Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Conference, 'Too Pure an Air': Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice and Equality, Gloucester, 18 June 2006 - 20 June 2006
    Conference Papers | 2005
    Golder B, 2005, 'Democracy's Definitional Disavowal, or The Semantic Economy of Political Violence', Colchester, presented at 6th Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Difference, Borders, Others, Colchester, 13 May 2005 - 14 May 2005
    Conference Papers | 2005
    Golder B, 2005, 'Legal Definitions of Violence: The Symbolic Politics of Counter-Terrorism', Canterbury, presented at Critical Legal Conference, Resistance, Canterbury, 02 September 2005 - 04 September 2005
    Conference Papers | 2002
    Golder B, 2002, ''[I]t forced me to open more than I could bear': HAD, paedophilia, and the discursive limits of the male heterosexual) body', Melbourne, presented at Mediating Law: Theory Production Culture, Melbourne, 29 November 2002 - 01 December 2002
    Conference Papers | 2002
    Golder B, 2002, 'Provoking Hatred: The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Politics of the Body', Wollongong, presented at Opening Law: Making Links – Crossing Boundaries, 20th Annual Law and Society Conference Australia, Wollongong, 09 December 2002 - 11 December 2002
    Reports | 2002
    Golder B, 2002, Submission to NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues Inquiry into an Equal Age of Consent
    Reports | 2002
    Golder B, 2002, Submission to Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education References Committee Inquiry into the Capacity of Public Universities to Meet Australia's Higher Education Needs
    Reports | 2002
    Golder B, 2002, Submission to the Department of Education, Science and Training on the Ministerial Discussion Paper, Higher Education at the Crossroads
    Reports | 2000
    Golder B, 2000, Submission to NSW Law Reform Commission Review of Part 10 of the Legal Profession Act 1987
    Reports | 2000
    Golder B, 2000, Submission to NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on the Increase in Prisoner Population
    Preprints |
    Golder B, How to Do Things with Foucault (Legally), , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3778342
  • Media | 2005
    Golder B; Williams G, 2005, Rights and Wrongs: On How to Define Terrorism,
    Media | 2005
    Golder B; Williams G, 2005, The Tricky Problem of Defining Terrorism', On-Line Opinion,

My Research Supervision

Research supervision

Sonia Qadir (PhD), working on discourses of security and counter-terrorism in Pakistan under the Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age Scientia Project. Jointly with Daniel McLoughlin and Vicki Sentas.

Angela Smith (PhD), working on techniques of offshore migration governance under the Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age Scientia Project. Jointly with Daniel McLoughlin and Vicki Sentas.

Trang Phan (PhD), "Human Rights, Corporations, and the Question of Duty-Bearing Capacity". Jointly with Fleur Johns. 

Janet Hill (PhD), "Neoliberalism's Ascent and the Parallel Rise of Human Rights: Correlation, Causation, or Coincidence?". Jointly with Daniel McLoughlin.

Fleur Ramsay (PhD), "Sovereign Pleasures and Prohibitions: Law and Law-breaking in the Prohibition Era in the United States (1919-1933)". Jointly with Vicki Sentas.

Costa Avgoustinos (PhD), "Reconciling Climate Change and Social Justice in Earth Jurisprudence". Jointly with Gabrielle Appleby

Marie Hadley (PhD), “Mike Tyson's Moko: Tattoos, Law and Cultural Appropriation”. Jointly with Kathy Bowrey

Dorothea Anthony (PhD), "The Human Rights Principle of Indivisibility and Its Ideological Significance in the Contemporary Age". Jointly with Andrew Byrnes. Completed

Stephen Young (PhD), "The Legal Performativity of Indigenous Peoples' Free Prior and Informed Consent". Jointly with Fleur Johns. Completed

Keiran Hardy (PhD), "Ruthlessness and Sympathy: Smart Power Thinking in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency". Jointly with George Williams and Lucia Zedner. Completed

Erin MacKay (PhD), "Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Right Framework for Law Reform in Matters involving Indigenous Women and Sexual Violence?". Jointly with Julie Stubbs. Completed

Joseph Indaimo (PhD), "The Self, the Other and Human Rights: Lacan, Levinas and the Ethics of Alterity". Jointly with Robert Shelly. Completed.

David Carter (LLM), "Law's 'insubordinate openness' and the use of HIV-Related Offences in the Governance of Healthcare in New South Wales". Jointly with Tyrone Kirchengast. Completed.