Dr Anna Carline LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD

Contact Details -

Address: John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3723
Email: A.Carline@ljmu.ac.uk

Teaching -

Anna is the module leader for Family law and Gender and the law and also teaches Independent Learning in Law, Criminal law, Sex, Crime and Society and Human Rights.

PhD Supervisor for Ms Clare Gunby, Centre of Public Health

Ms Gunby’s PhD is exploring experiences of, and perspectives on, voluntary alcohol intoxication and sexual activity amongst the lay population, legal and counselling professionals.

Research Interests -

Her main research interests are in the fields of criminal law, feminist jurisprudence and gender theory and she completed a PhD entitled: “Women who kill their abusive partners: an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law”. 

Anna is currently involved in a research project which analysis the law of rape and consent to sexual activity.  The research project comprises two studies. Study one uses focus groups in order to generate knowledge in to how men and women conceptualise and define consent. Study two involves semi-structured interviews with barristers in order examine the opinions and perspectives of legal practitioners who have experience of dealing with rape cases in order to ascertain whether the reforms contained in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 have been successful.  The project provides an original contribution to existing research by generating empirical data relating to the opinions and perspectives of both lay persons and legal practitioners. 

Anna was awarded a small SLSA (Socio-Legal Studies Association) grant in order to fund the above mentioned focus groups. She is also a participant of the RDI Building Capacity in Empirical Socio Legal Research workshops organised by Liverpool University.

Anna has established (with Dr Helen Baker, Liverpool University) a collaborative seminar programme with colleagues from Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool University, which examines the range of social legal research that is carried out in both law schools, see: http://www.liv.ac.uk/law/socio/

Anna and Dr Helen Baker edited a special edition of the Liverpool Law which published papers from the seminar series. See “Socio-Legal Studies in Liverpool Law Schools” [2008] Liverpool Law Review 29(2) 117-246

Publications -

Papers

“Perspectives on Trafficking and the Policing and Crime Act 2009: Challenging Notions of Vulnerability through a Butlerian Lens”, in FitzGerald S (ed) Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control Routledge-Cavendish (2010) (forthcoming)

“Criminalisation or Protection? Tensions in the Construction of Prevention Strategies Concerning Trafficking for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation” in Jones J et al (eds) Gender, Law and Sexualities Routledge-Cavendish (2010) (forthcoming)

“Criminal Justice, Extreme Pornography and Prostitution: Protecting Women or Promoting Morality?” Sexualities (2010) (forthcoming)

"Constructing the Subject of Prostitution: A Butlerian Reading of the Regulation of Sex Work", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2010) (forthcoming)

“Barristers’ Perspectives on Rape and the Sexual Offences Act 2003” Criminal Law and Justice Weekly (2010) 174(31): 472-474 (with Gunby C)

“Honour and Shame in Domestic Homicide: A Critical Analysis of the Provocation Defence” in Idriss and Abbas (eds) Honour, Violence, Women and Islam Routledge-Cavendish 2010

“Critical Perspectives on the Policing and Crime Act 2009: An Unethical Approach to the Regulation of Prostitution?” Contemporary Issues in Law [2010] 10(2): 77-100

"Reforming Provocation: Perspectives from the Law Commission and the Government" [2009] 2 Web JCLI: http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2009/issue2/carline2.html

“Ethics and Vulnerability in Street Prostitution: An Argument in Favour of Managed Zones” [2009] Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective 3(1) 20-53

http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/JournalVol3Issue1.htm

“Complexity and Queer Theory Approaches to International Law and Feminist Politics: Perspectives on Trafficking” (with Zoe Pearson) [2007] Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 19(1) 73-118

“Resignifications and Subversive Transformations: Judith Butler's Queer Theory and Women who Kill” [2006] Liverpool Law Review Vol 27 303-335

“Women who Kill Their Abusive Partners: From Sameness to Gender Construction” [2005] Liverpool Law Review Vol 26(1) 13-44

“Zoora Shah ‘An Unusual Woman’ ” [2005] Social & Legal Studies, Vol 14(2), 215-238

Conference Papers

Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics, Prague, May 2010
Ethics, Vulnerability(ies) and Sex Work: A Butlerian Perspective

SLSA, University of the West of England, April 2010
Legal and Lay Perspectives on Consent to Sexual Intercourse

Invited Speaker, UCLAN, February 2010
‘It might be a bit of a beauty contest’: Barristers’ Perspectives on Rape and the Sexual Offences Act 2003

SLSA, Loughborough University, April 2009
Criminal Justice, Pornography and Prostitution: Radical Feminists in the House of Commons?
Ethics and the Regulation of Sex Work: A Butlerian Ethical Reading of Radical Feminism and Reform Proposals

SLSA, Manchester University, April 2008
Inside or Outside the Law?: Uncovering and Resignifying the Scripts of  Female Sexuality in Relation to the Law of Rape.

Gender Unbound, Keele University, July 2007
Tolerating Sex Work: Constructing Images of the Female Sex Worker

Why and How? Theoretical and Methodological Directions in Law, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, August 2006
Queering International Law: Perspectives on Trafficking

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