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Alysia Blackham

Associate Professor
Law
Equality law
Young workers
Older workers
Self-employment
Gig work
Algorithmic bias
Judges
Retirement
Mixed methods
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Alysia Blackham

 
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Law
 
Primary Interest
Empirical legal research
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Projects

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CGEPS Inaugural Research Grants Round, 2021

2021 - 2022
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ADDRESSING AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT

This project aims to research the effectiveness of Australian age discrimination laws. While demographic ageing necessitates extending worki..

2017 - 2021
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Addressing Age Discrimination in Employment

This project aims to research the effectiveness of Australian age discrimination laws. While demographic ageing necessitates extending worki..

2017 - 2021
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Workability and the ageing population

2016 - 2017
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Projects

Project Types

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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GUEST EDITORIAL Introduction to the Special Issue Using Transparency to Achieve Equality

Dominique Allen, Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2021  |  Law in Context. A Socio-legal Journal

This Guest Editorial introduces a Special Issue of Law in Context which considers how the collection of large-scale data by govern..

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Enforcing Rights in Employment Tribunals: Insights from Age Discrimination Claims in a New ‘Dataset’

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2021  |  Legal Studies

The online publication of Employment Tribunal (ET) decisions in England, Wales and Scotland marks a watershed moment, opening up n..

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Non-discrimination on the grounds of age

Alysia Blackham

Reference Work  |  2021

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Positive Equality Duties: The Future of Equality and Transparency?

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2021  |  Law in Context

Transparency is a radical expectation in the context of equality law. In a system highly dependent on individual en-forcement, the..

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Does removing default retirement ages benefit individuals? A comparative empirical case study of the university sector

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

In 2011, the UK government abolished the national default retirement age. While this could support extended working lives and prom..

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Working at the edges of legal protection: Equality law and youth work experience from a comparative perspective

Alysia Blackham

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Reforming Responses to the Challenges of Judicial Incapacity

A Lynch, A Blackham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Federal Law Review

Judicial incapacity, while under-researched, presents unique challenges for supporting and responding to issues of judicial perfor..

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Intersectional Discrimination in Australia: An Empirical Critique of the Legal Framework

Alysia Blackham, Jeromey Temple

Journal article  |  2020  |  University of New South Wales Law Journal

Australian equality law is still largely dependent on individual enforcement to achieve systemic change. The degree to which discr..

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Unpacking precarious academic work in legal education

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Law Teacher

Precarious work is becoming increasingly prevalent in academe, as tenured opportunities diminish and university employment practic..

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Why Do Employment Age Discrimination Cases Fail? An Analysis of Australian Case Law

Alysia Blackham

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Sydney Law Review

Employment age discrimination cases are notoriously unsuccessful in Australia. While it is arguable that most strong cases are set..

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Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law
Commercial Law
Other Law and Legal Studies
Legal Systems
Law in Context
International and Comparative Law
Public Law
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
Public Health
Work and Labour Market

News

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Discrimination in a pandemic

Alysia Blackham

COVID-19 is fundamentally reshaping the economy and the world of work. Mass layoffs – in tourism, bars, clubs, cafes, restaurants, cinemas a..

May 3, 2020
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Women, age discrimination and work

Alysia Blackham

Reports out of the UK and Europe have found that ageism is the most common type of discrimination. In the US, around 61 per cent of workers ..

March 7, 2020
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We need to talk about discrimination law and why a thoughtful approach to reform is so important

Alysia Blackham, Adriana Orifici, Liam Elphick

James Ross/AAPIn 2019, discrimination law rarely left the headlines. Among the issues crowding the public agend..

February 5, 2020
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Challenging discrimination in the gig economy

Alysia Blackham

Most of us are now familiar with the gig economy. We’ve put a job on Airtasker, ridden in an Uber or had food brought to us by Deliveroo. Bu..

March 6, 2019
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Why mandatory retirement ages should be a thing of the past

Alysia Blackham

Mandatory retirement ages are – rightly – mostly a thing of the past in Australia. But they still linger both formally and informally in som..

April 8, 2018
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The case for removing judges’ retirement age

Alysia Blackham

Judge Graham Bell of the Family Court of Australia retired on 20 February 2015, at the age of 78. Appointed in 1976, he took office before t..

June 7, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Adam Podgórecki Prize 2020

International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Law
2020

Patricia Grimshaw Award for Mentor Excellence

University of Melbourne
2018

Phillipa Weeks Prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar presented at the ALLA 2018 Conference

Australian Labour Law Association
2017

Runner-up, Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2017 (awarded to outstanding published books by early career scholars)

UK Society of Legal Scholars
2016

Phillipa Weeks Prize for the Best Paper by an Early Career Scholar presented at the ALLA 2016 Conference

Australian Labour Law Association
2011

Poynton Cambridge Australia Scholarship

Cambridge Trust
2011

WM Tapp Studentship in Law

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Law

Member

Research Committee on Sociology of Law

Member

International Sociological Association

Member

Australasian Law Academics Association

Education

PhD in Law

University of Cambridge

Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education)

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Laws

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

Lund University

Sweden

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Kobe University

Japan

University of California - Berkeley

United States