Dr Marie Hadley

Marie joined the Newcastle Law School in January, 2020. She is an interdisciplinary legal scholar whose research explores the creation, consumption, and regulation of culture and the politics of making rights claims. Her primary expertise relates to copyright law, cultural appropriation, and social norms. Marie particularly enjoys using a cultural, subcultural, or pop culture lens to investigate arts and entertainment law disputes, and the engagement between informal systems of legality and the positive law. 

Marie has published her research in both Australia and overseas. She is the author of publications on copyright, the cultural appropriation of Indigenous cultural imagery and arts styles, sports law, and inquest law. Her PhD thesis, 'The Politics of Cultural Appropriation Claims and Law Reform', was awarded a PhD Excellence Award. It is also currently shortlisted for an Australian Legal Research Award (PhD category). The thesis explores in depth the argument for law reform to prevent the cultural appropriation of Māori and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, with a particular focus on the protection of cultural imagery and arts styles. 

Marie is currently undertaking postdoctoral work on the ARC Discovery Project, 'Producing, Managing and Owning Knowledge in the 21st Century University) (DP200110578).

Marie welcomes applications from prospective research students interested in matters that sit at the nexus of law and  society, particularly in the fields of intellectual property, cultural rights, entertainment law, and legal history.