By Professor Luke McNamara

Journal articles

McNamara L; Quilter J, 2013, 'Time to define ‘the cornerstone of public order legislation’: the elements of offensive conduct and language under the summary offences act 1988 (NSW)', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 36, pp. 534 - 562, http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/

Arzey S; Mcnamara L, 2011, 'Invoking international human rights law in a "rights-free zone": Indigenous justice campaigns in Australia', Human Rights Quarterly, 33, pp. 733 - 766, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2011.0036

McNamara L, 1994, 'Criminalising Racial Hatred: Learning from the Canadian Experience', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 1, pp. 198 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.1994.11910911

Reports

McNamara L, 2024, Does the Albanese government's new “hate speech” law give us what we need?, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/does-the-albanese-governments-proposed-hate-speech-law-give-us-what-we-need-232384

McNamara L, 2024, Law and Order in Australia Has a Blind Spot: Human Rights, The Diplomat

McNamara L; others W, 2024, Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024, https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/AntisemitismBill/Submissions

Quilter J; McNamara L; Methven E; Bowles G, 2024, Why NSW has a fines problem: COVID kids report, https://lsj.com.au/articles/why-nsw-has-a-fines-problem-covid-kids-report/

McNamara L, 2024, Gaza sit-in reactions show limits of right to protest, https://360info.org/gaza-sit-in-reactions-show-limits-of-right-to-protest/

Quilter J; McNamara L; Methven E; Bowles G, 2024, Children and COVID-19 Fines in NSW: Impacts and Lessons for the Future Use of Penalty Notices

Quilter J; McNamara L, 2024, Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission: Justice Responses to Sexual Violence

McNamara L; Quilter J; Loughnan A; Hogg R; Brown D; Farmer L, 2024, Submission to NSW Law Reform Commission Review of Serious Road Crime

Gibbon H; McNamara L; Quilter J; Sentas V; Williams L, 2024, Submission to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (NSW): Bail compliance checks in NSW, Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice

Quilter J; McNamara L, 2023, Submission to UK Law Commission: Evidence in Sexual Offences Prosecutions

Quilter J; McNamara L, 2023, Sexual offence trials have improved, but there is more to be done: new research, https://theconversation.com/sexual-offence-trials-have-improved-but-there-is-more-to-be-done-new-research-211895

Quilter J; McNamara L, 2023, Submission to Commonwealth Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee: Current and proposed sexual consent laws in Australia

Carter A; McNamara L, 2022, Explainer: the reform of sexual consent laws in NSW, https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/business-law/explainer-reform-sexual-consent-laws-nsw

Buxton-Namisnyk E; Giannacopoulos M; Gibbon H; Kaladelfos A; Matthews I; Paetzholdt U; McNamara L, 2022, Submission to NSW Government on the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Coercive Control) Bill 2022, Centre for Crime, Law and Society

McNamara L; Gan J; Mullins S; Waine C; Williams C, 2022, COVID-19 Criminalisation in NSW: A ‘Law and Order’ Response to a Public Health Crisis?, Center for Crime, Law and Society

McNamara L; Matthews I; Sentas V; Williams L, 2022, Submission to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission NSW: Review of the operation of amendments to the consorting law under Part 3A Division 7 of the Crimes Act 1900, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, UNSW

Stubbs J; Findlay L; McNamara L; Steel A, 2019, Submission to the NSW Sentencing Council’s review of sentencing for the offences of murder and manslaughter, including penalties imposed for domestic and family violence homicides and the standard non-parole periods for murder, http://www.cclj.unsw.edu.au/sites/cclj.unsw.edu.au/files/Submission%20to%20Sentencing%20Council%20from%20UNSW%20CCLJ%20researchers%20pdf.pdf

Appleby G; McNamara L; Sentas V, 2019, Submission to the Department of Justice, Strategic Legislation and Policy on the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2019 (Tas), https://www.justice.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/551032/University-of-New-South-Wales-submission-Workplace-protesters.PDF

McNamara L; Stubbs J; Gibbon H; Schwartz M; Steel A, 2019, Submission in response to the NSW Law Reform Commission’s Consent in Relation to Sexual Assault

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