Dr Richard Mohr

BA (Hons 1) (UNSW)
PhD (UNSW)

Senior Lecturer

Phone: (02) 4221 4632
Email: rick_mohr@uow.edu.au

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Rick Mohr is Co-Director of the Legal Intersections Research Centre and is the Faculty of Law's Director of Postgraduate Programs. He is Managing Editor of the journal Law Text Culture. He has a background in sociology, public sector management and research consultancy in a range of legal, evaluation and policy fields.

Rick works at the intersections of law and sociology. His theoretical work deals with legal semiotics, the constitution of power and authority, the relationships between law and material objects and the application of discourse theory to legal decision-making.

From 1994 to 2000 when LIRC was established, Rick was Research Director of the Faculty's Centre for Court Policy and Administration, and continues to work on issues related to courts and the administration of justice. This work has included: the development of standards and benchmarks for court services, research into issues affecting litigants in person in courts and tribunals; and the role of the judiciary, training for magistrates and court staff in New South Wales and Singapore and supervision of higher degree research students. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Research into Judicial Systems (IRSIG-CNR), Bologna , in 2001 and 2005, most recently signing a memorandum of understanding between IRSIG-CNR and LIRC to collaborate in research, education and consultancy.

Rick organised the first Representing Jutice Conference on court architecture, design and planning in 1998. In 1999 he was guest editor of the first edition of the electronic Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry on 'Representations of Justice' and in 2000 edited a special issue of the Journal of Judicial Administration (vol 9 no 3). 'Building Courthouses for the Twenty-First Century'.