Professor Ann Black

Professor

School of Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
a.black@law.uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52243

Overview

Professor Ann Black researches in the field of comparative law, law & religion, and legal pluralism, with particular interest in Islamic law and the law and legal cultures of Asia, especially Brunei Darussalam. She teaches two comparative law courses in the undergraduate program - Asian Legal Systems and Introduction to Islamic law in addition to Fundamentals of the Common Law and Comparative Criminal Law in the School's Master's program. She received the UQ Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.

She is a co-author with Gary Bell, of Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, adaptations and innovations (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law, with Hossein Esmaeili and Nadirsyah Hosen, (Edward Elgar, 2013), and Religious Freedom in a Secular Society, with Jahid Hussein in Brill’s Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights (2022). Another book co-edited with Jahid Hussein, Religious Freedom and Accommodating Religious Diversity: Challenges and Responses is due late in 2023.

Professor Black is the Executive Director, Comparative Law, in the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and is the Program manager for the Centre's Indonesian Law Program, the Legal Pluralism Program, and the Korean Law Program and is a member of the Law and Religion in the Asia-Pacific and the Federalism and Multilevel Governance Program.

Research Interests

  • Southeast Asian law
  • Comparative Criminal law
  • Law & religion

Publications

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Supervision

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Available Projects

  • Potential topics could include:

    • Religious freedom in Asian countries
    • Minority rights in a particular Asian nation

    For further information contact Professor Anne Black, e: a.black@law.uq.edu.au

  • Potential topics could include:

    • Islamic family law reform
    • Family and inheritance law for Muslims in secular Western nations
    • Constitutional law in particular Muslim nations
    • The role of law in the process of Islamisation in a particular Muslim nation or region

    For further information contact Professor Anne Black, e: a.black@law.uq.edu.au

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Publications

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Edited Outputs

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Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Potential topics could include:

    • Religious freedom in Asian countries
    • Minority rights in a particular Asian nation

    For further information contact Professor Anne Black, e: a.black@law.uq.edu.au

  • Potential topics could include:

    • Islamic family law reform
    • Family and inheritance law for Muslims in secular Western nations
    • Constitutional law in particular Muslim nations
    • The role of law in the process of Islamisation in a particular Muslim nation or region

    For further information contact Professor Anne Black, e: a.black@law.uq.edu.au