Professor

Career Summary

I am a graduate of the University of Tasmania receiving an honours degree in law in 1970 and an LLM by thesis in 1978. I began working full time as a lecturer in the Law Faculty in 1981 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1989, Associate Professor in 1993 and to Professor in 1996. I was the first woman Dean of the Law Faculty (1992-1994) and was Head of School from 1994-1997. In 2002 I was appointed as Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute which is based at the Law Faculty. In 2006 I was awarded the Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for the best article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology in 2004-2005 and in 2007 I was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. In 2008 I was awarded a Fellowship at All Souls College Oxford for Michaelmas Term 2009.

Units Taught

LAW225 and LAW226 - Criminal Law A and B
LAW422 - Evidence
LAW688 - Sentencing
LAW615 - Criminology

Unit List

Research Interests

Sentencing law and policy, public opinion and criminal justice, sexual offences, criminal procedure and human rights.

Selected Publications:

• K Warner, J Davis, M Walter, R Bradfield and R Vermey, 2009, 'Gauging public opinion on sentencing: can asking jurors help?', Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice , 371.
• K Warner, 2008, 'Sentencing Review 2007-2008', Criminal Law Journal , 32, pgs. 368-383.
• K Warner, 2007, 'Mandatory Sentencing and the Role of the Academic', Criminal Law Forum , 18, pgs. 321- 347.
• K Warner, 2005, 'Sexual Offending: Victim, Gender and Sentencing Dilemmas', Issues in Australian Criminal Justice, D Chappell and P Wilson (eds), Butterworths, pgs. 233-251.
• K Warner, 2005, 'Institutional Architecture', The Promise of Law Reform, Federation Press, B Opeskin and D Weisbrot (eds), pgs. 55-71.
• K Warner, 2004, 'Gang Rape in Sydney: Crime, the media, politics, race and sentencing', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology , 37, pgs. 344-361.
• K Warner, 2002, 'Sentencing in Tasmania 2nd ed', 2nd ed, The Federation Press, Sydney, pgs. 476 pp.

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Current and Supervised Project/s:

• The Impact of the Changes to the Definition of Consent in s2A of the Tasmanian Criminal Code Introducing an Affirmative Model of Consent and s14A relating to Mistake on Rape Trials and Outcomes in Rap
• Are our children being adequately protected? Cross jurisdictional issues between the Family Law Court and Magistrates Court in relation to children affected by domestic violence.