uowphilosophy

AUSTRALIAN POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

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.

Her research specialization is primarily at the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of law. The focus of the current ARC funded research is free speech and political violence. Other recent publications are concerned with deliberative democracy and issues in rights theory. Sarah has recently published a book with Routledge on free speech and the advocacy of violence.

Books

Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence: Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism. Routledge, 2011.

Journal Articles

• Sorial, S (2011), “Habermas, Feminism and Law: Beyond Equality and Difference” Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Philosophy of Law. 24(1): 25-48.
• Sorial, S (2010) “Free Speech, Autonomy, and the Marketplace of Ideas” in Journal of Value Inquiry 44: 167-183.
• Sorial, S (2010)  “Can Saying Something Make it so?” The nature of seditious harm” in Law and Philosophy 29: 273-305.
• Sorial, S (2008) “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, 34(2): 400-429.
• 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, 18(3): 431-448.
• Sorial, S (2007) “Hannah Arendt’s Political Philosophy” in Cadernos de Filosofia (Special Edition on Hannah Arendt and the Political), 19 (2): 373-390.
• Sorial, S (2007) “Guilt by Association: The case of Regina v Lodhi” in Alternative Law Review, 32(3): 160-164.
• Sorial, S (2006) “Martin Heidegger and the Ontology of Freedom” in International Philosophical Quarterly, 46 (2): 205-218.
• Sorial, S (2004) “Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the Question of Dasein’s Embodiment: An Ethics of Touch and Spacing” in Philosophy Today, 42(2): 216-230.

Other Contributions

(forthcoming) Entry on Merleau-Ponty and Sartre for Contiuum Companion to Existentialism, Ashley Woodward and Jack Renyolds (eds).

Book Reviews

• Sorial, S (2009) Review of Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism, OUP 2006 in Critical Horizons.
• Sorial, S (forthcoming) Review of Margaret Grebowicz (ed), Gender After Lyotard CUNY, 2007 in Feminist Theory.