Dr Sarah Sorial

BA (Hons) LLB (Macq) PhD (UNSW)

Location: 67.217A
Phone: 02 4221 5034
Email: sarahs@uow.edu.au

Biography

Sarah is currently an ARC Post Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Wollongong. Sarah completed her undergraduate degrees in philosophy and law at Macquarie University. She was awarded her PhD in philosophy from The University of New South Wales in 2006. Sarah has also taught at Macquarie University and UNSW. She completed the first year of her fellowship at Macquarie before transferring to Wollongong to take up a joint position in the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Arts Philosophy Program.

Research Profile

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Selected Publications

  • (In press) “The Use and Abuse of Power and why we need a bill of rights: The ASIO (Terrorism) Amendment Act 2003 (Cth) and the case of R v Ul-Haque” in Monash Law Review Volume 34(2).
  • Sorial, S (2008) “Law, Cosmopolitan Law and the Protection of Human Rights” in International Journal of Political Theory, 4(2): 241-264.
  • Sorial, S (2007) “Sedition and the Problem of Freedom of Speech” in Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Volume 18 (3): 431-448.
  • Sorial, S (2007) “Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy” in Cadernos de Filosofia (Special Edition on Hannah Arendt and the Political), Volume 19, Number 2.
  • Sorial, S (2007) “Guilt by Association: The case of Regina v Lodhi” in Alternative Law Review Volume 32, No 3, September 2007.
  • Sorial, S (2006) “Martin Heidegger and the Ontology of Freedom” in International Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, No 2, Issue 182, pp.205-218.
  • Sorial, S (2004) “Martin Heidegger and the Question of Dasein’s Embodiment” in Philosophy Today, Volume 42:2, pp.216-230.

Book Reviews

(In press) Another Cosmopolitanism: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures.

Current Research Projects

Sarah works primarily in the areas of philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, philosophy of feminism and phenomenology. Her current ARC project is a philosophical examination of sedition as a category of speech act and the philosophical problem of free speech more generally.

Higher Degree Research and Honours Supervision

Kylie Bourne

 

Last reviewed: 3 March, 2009