Marie Hadley
Dr Marie Hadley’s interdisciplinary research seeks to better understand the relationship between law and society, in the context of the meaning and significance of the anti-racist graffiti of public statues of historical figures. The project is characterised by cross-disciplinary collaboration, sociolegal methods, and practice-based research. Dr Hadley’s coauthored article Ideological Vandalism of Public Art Statues: Copyright, the Moral Right of Integrity and Racial Justice, was published in the Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity in 2022. It investigates the racial implications of the copyright and moral rights regimes in regulating anti-racist graffiti and law’s role in the production of democratic public spaces. Dr Hadley is currently collaborating with artist Travis De Vries, a Gamilaroi man, on the creation of a digital artwork that critically reflects upon these themes. Qualitative interviews with university students studying the relationship between art, intellectual property law and justice through the De Vries artwork, will be conducted in 2022. To read the full article click here.
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