Tamara joined the Faculty of Law as Assistant Professor in 2014. Prior to this, Tamara was a PhD candidate and Nettheim Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of New South Wales, and a member of the ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge’ in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
Tamara has previously practised as a solicitor at the Mental Health Advocacy Service at NSW Legal Aid and served as Associate to Chief Justice Higgins AO of the ACT Supreme Court.
Key Research
Tamara’s key research interests are: legal responses to terrorism, mental health law, prevention and criminal justice.
Tamara is currently working with Professor Harry Blagg on a CRC funded project ‘Developing Diversionary Pathways for Indigenous Youth with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Three Community Study in Western Australia’. This study will explore and map out diversionary alternatives and law reform options that will equip courts and multi-agency teams, partnered with community-owned and managed services, to construct alternative pathways into treatment and support. The research will be conducted in 3 locations in remote Western Australia: Broome, Derby and Fitzroy Crossing.
Tamara was awarded a 2014 PhD Excellence Award for her thesis, ‘The Preventative State? Prevention and Pre-emption in Mental Health, High Risk Offender and Anti-Terror Laws’.
- Company:The University of Western Australia
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Mental Health and the Law
Mental Health and the Law