Elyse Methven

Experience

• 2020–present
  Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
• 2017–2020
  Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
• 2015–2016
  Associate lecturer, Macquarie University
• 2011–2015
  Associate lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Education

• 2017 
  UTS, Doctor of Philosophy (Law)
• 2008 
  UTS, Bachelor of Laws (Hons.)

Publications

• 2024
  It might be powerful; but is it offensive? Unpacking judicial views on the c-word, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
• 2023
  Skipping straight to the punishment: criminal infringement notices and factors that influence police discretion, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
• 2022
  There is no need for anyone to be concerned”: The discursive legitimation of coercive police powers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Revista de Llengua i Dret
• 2020
  A death sentence for swearing: the fatal consequences of the failure to decriminalise offensive language, Griffith Law Review
• 2020
  ‘A Woman’s Tongue’: Representations of Gender and Swearing in Australian Legal and Media Discourse, Australian Feminist Law Journal
• 2020
  Commodifying Justice: Discursive Strategies Used in the Legitimation of Infringement Notices for Minor Offences, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
• 2020
  Life in the shadow carceral state: Surveillance and control of refugees in Australia, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
• 2019
  Dancing with Death: Why the NSW Homicide Offence of Drug Supply Causing Death May Cause More Harm than Good, Criminal Law Journal
• 2019
  Cheap and Efficient Justice? Neoliberal Discourse and Criminal Infringement Notices, University of Western Australia Law Review
• 2019
  The controversial case of Lawyer X: Should lawyers be prevented from acting as human sources?, Alternative Law Journal
• 2017
  Offensive Language Crimes in Law, Media, and Popular Culture, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• 2016
  Serious Crime Prevention Orders, Current Issues in Criminal Justice
• 2016
  'Weeds of our own Making': Language Ideologies, Swearing and the Criminal Law, Law in Context
• 2015
  We will decide who comes to this country, and how they behave: A critical reading of the asylum seeker Code of Behaviour, Alternative Law Journal
• 2014
  'A Very Expensive Lesson': Counting the Costs of Penalty Notices for Anti-social Behaviour, Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Grants and Contracts

• 2018
  Early career research grant

  Role:

  Lecturer

  Funding Source:

  University of Technology Sydney

• 2016
  Early career research grant

  Role:

  Associate Lecturer

  Funding Source:

  Macquarie University

• 2011
  Quentin Bryce Doctoral Scholarship

  Role:

  Doctoral student

  Funding Source:

  University of Technology Sydney