The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia congratulates Fellows Professor Margaret Davies and Professor Marilyn Lake AO on their election as International Fellows of The British Academy, in Law and Modern History respectively.
Margaret Davies FASSA FAAL is a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Law at Flinders University, South Australia.
She studied law and English literature at the University of Adelaide before completing her doctorate in critical legal theory at the University of Sussex.
Margaret’s research is in legal theory, with a focus on critical legal theory, feminist legal theory, legal pluralism, the philosophy of property, and ecological jurisprudence. Margaret’s most recent books concern the many ways that law is embedded in social and ecological conditions. She has been particularly interested in developing an account of normativity that connects legal norms with social and ecological norms, enabling a view of law that is emergent from a dynamic natural world.
Marilyn Lake D.Litt. FAHA FASSA AO is Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne.
Her areas of research include settler colonialism and the British empire, campaigns for racial and gender equality, labour history and the impact of war on the home front.
Marilyn has published widely, both locally and internationally, in daily newspapers as well as scholarly presses. Her books include the award-winning ‘Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality’ and ‘Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and TransPacific Exchange Shaped American Reform’.
Every year a limited number of new Fellows from across the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are elected to the British Academy on the basis of their academic record.
Well done to Prof Davies and Prof Lake for this very special recognition.