Mareike Riedel

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Mareike Riedel

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9056-2570
20112025

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Biography

I am a sociolegal scholar who explores the intersections of law, religion, and race. My work is interdisciplinary, theoretically grounded and conceptually innovative. It combines critical legal analysis with empirical insights and theorising from the social sciences and the humanities in novel ways to explore how unstated cultural assumptions and biases shape and limit rights and equality for marginalised populations. In particular, my work is concerned with law and religion in multicultural societies, religious and racial discrimination, the cultural history of secular law, and the role of law in both combatting and perpetuating antisemitism and Islamophobia.

My research has been published in the Journal of Law and Society, International Journal of Law in Context, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Griffith Law Review, and Identities. My book Law and Jewish Difference with Cambridge University Press examines the legacy of Christian anti-Judaism in secular law and shows how this legacy undermines the rights of Jews and other racialised religious minority groups. Another line of research analyses approaches to Islamophobia in anti-discrimination law. Previously, I have worked on the regulation of artistic expression in constitutional law with a focus on works of fiction and personal rights to privacy and I maintain an interest in how law makes sense of fictional speech.

I completed my PhD in sociolegal studies at the Australian National University. Prior to joining Macquarie University, I have held research fellowships at the Australian National University, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Since 2022, I have been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and returned in 2024 as a Visiting Fellow to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. My research has been supported by the Max Planck Society, the Freilich Institute for the Study of Bigotry at ANU, the ANU Gender Institute, and the State Government of Saxony, Germany.

My teaching-practice is research-led and combines robust legal skills development with fostering students’ intercultural awareness and critical thinking skills. In 2023, I was recognised as Highly Commended Finalist in the Vice Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards 2023 (Innovation Category) together with my colleague Dr Amanda Head for the design of a new module for teaching statutory interpretation to first year students. We also received the 2024 Faculty of Arts Learning and Teaching Award for Learning Innovation. I convene and teach Foundations of Law, Anti-Discrimination Law, and Human Rights & Moral Dilemmas and have taught units in public law at the Free University of Berlin, and in law and regulation at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University.

Teaching

I currently teaches into the following units:

LAWS8001 Foundations of Law JD (Convenor, Lecturer and Tutor)

LAWS1000 Foundations of Law UG (Lecturer and Tutor)

LAWS5011 Anti-Discrimination Law UG (Lecturer and Tutor)

LAWS8026 Anti-Discrimination Law JD (Convenor and Lecturer)

LAWS5080/8094 Human Rights and Moral Dilemmas UG/JD (Co-Convenor)

Education/Academic qualification

Law, PhD, Australian National University

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