Associate Professor Anthony Hopkins
Research interests
- Criminal Law
- Sentencing
- Evidence Law
- Advocacy
- Indigenous Australians and the Law
- Equality and Access to Justice
- Legal Education
Biography
Dr Anthony Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Clinical and Internship Courses at the ANU Law School, having joined ANU is 2015. In 2018, Anthony received a Vice-Chancellor's citation for outstanding contribution to student learning in recognition of his innovative teaching approaches designed to take students as close as possible to the coalface of legal practice. Anthony began his career as a criminal defence lawyer in Alice Springs at the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service. After taking time off to raise children, Anthony returned to the law as a lecturer at the University of Canberra, before being called to the bar in 2010. He continues to practice as a barrister with a focus on sentencing and appellate criminal cases. Anthony's research, and his work in legal policy, is focused on reforms to the criminal justice system that promote equality and reduce incarceration. He has a particular focus on the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the criminal justice system. Most recently Anthony has focused on exploring the links between equality and compassion, where compassion is understood as the foundation that enables turning towards those who are caught in the criminal justice system, and towards actors in that system who are liable to burnout. This research is supported and influenced by Anthony's continuing mindfulness meditation practice.
Publications
- Henshaw, M, Bartels, L & Hopkins, A 2019, 'Set Up to Fail? Examining Australian Parole Compliance Laws Through a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Lens', University of Western Australia Law Review, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 107-136.
- Bartels, L, Oxman, L & Hopkins, A 2019, '"I Would Just Feel Really Relaxed and at Peace": Findings From a Pilot Prison Yoga Program in Australia', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Criminology, vol. 63, no. 15-16, pp. 2531-2549.
- Henshaw, M, Bartels, L & Hopkins, A 2019, 'To COMMIT Is Just the Beginning: Applying Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Reform Parole in Australia', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 1411-1442.
- Hopkins, A & Bartels, L 2019, 'Paying Attention to the Person: Compassion, Equality, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence', in Nigel Stobbs, Lorana Bartels & Michel Vols (ed.), The Methodology and Practice of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, United States, pp. 107-127.
- Hopkins, A, Bartels, L & Oxman, L 2019, 'Lessons in Flexibility: Introducing a Yoga Program in an Australian Prison', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 47-61.
- Hopkins, A, Carline, A & Easteal, P 2018, 'Equal Consideration and Informed Imagining: Recognising and Responding to the Lived Experiences of Abused Women Who Kill', Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 1201-1236pp.
- Hopkins, A 2017, 'Let's Talk About Compassion as the Foundation of a Solution Focus in Sentencing', Non-Adversarial Justice Conference
- King, C, Bartels, L, Easteal, P et al. 2016, 'Did Defensive Homicide in Victoria Provide a Safety Net for Battered Women Who Kill? A Case Study Analysis', Monash University Law Review, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 138-178.
- Hopkins, A 2016, 'Compassion as a Foundation for Giving Equal Consideration in Criminal Justice Law Reform', National Law Reform Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Hopkins, A 2016, 'Presentation - Sentencing Indigenous Australians: Linking the Story of the People to the Story of the Person'.
- Hopkins, A 2016, 'Meeting the Challenge of Bugmy: Using Gladue-style Reports to Link the Story of the People to the Story of the Person', National Indigenous Legal Conference
- Hopkins, A, Oxman, L & Bartels, L 2015, 'Justice as Wellbeing in Prison: The Potential of Vipassana Meditation', Justice Connections Symposium 4, Conference Organising Committee, Canberra, Australia.
- Anthony, T, Bartels, L & Hopkins, A 2015, 'Lessons Lost in Sentencing: Welding Individualised Justice to Indigenous Justice', Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 47-76.
- Hoitink, D & Hopkins, A 2015, 'Divergent approaches to the admissibility of tendency evidence in New South Wales and Victoria: The risk of adopting a more permissive approach', Criminal Law Journal, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 303-325.
- Lewis, C, Hopkins, A & Bartels, L 2015, 'The Relevance of Aboriginality in Sentencing in the Australian Capital Territory: Missed Opportunities and the Potential of Pre-Sentence Reports', Justice Connections II Symposium, Conference Organising Committee, Canberra, Australia, pp. 2pp.
- Bartels, L, Anthony, T & Hopkins, A 2014, 'Sentencing Aboriginal offenders in Australia and Canada: A comparative analysis', International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law Conference on Sentencing and Corrections, Conference Organising Committee, Vancouver, Canada.
- Hopkins, A 2014, 'Equality before the Law - Making Sense of the Idea of Equal Justice for Individuals in the Criminal Justice System', Justice Connections III Symposium, Conference Organising Committee, Canberra, Australia.
- Hopkins, A & Anderson, J 2014, Uniform Evidence Law Guidebook, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia.
- Lewis, C, Hopkins, A & Bartels, L 2013, 'The Relevance of Aboriginality in Sentencing: Findings from Interviews in the ACT', in Patricia Easteal (ed.), Justice Connections, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp. 37-59.
- Hopkins, A 2013, Submission No 9 to Australian Capital Territory Legislative Standing Committee, Inquiry into Sentencing.
- Hopkins, A 2012, 'The Relevance of Aboriginality in Sentencing: 'Sentencing a Person for Who they Are'', Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 37-52.
- Dwyer, T, Easteal, P & Hopkins, A 2012, 'Did She Consent? Law and the Media in New South Wales', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 249-253.
- Hopkins, A & Muthuraja, C 2011, 'Controlling Leading Questions in the Cross-Examination of Aboriginal Witnesses: The Legal Position in Practice in Alice Springs', Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand and Australian Linguistic Society Combined Conference, Conference Organising Committee, Canberra, Australia.
- Hopkins, A & Easteal, P 2010, 'Walking in Her Shoes: Battered Women Who Kill in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 132-137.
- Hopkins, A 2010, 'Aboriginality in Sentencing - Sentencing a Person for Who They Are', Fifth National Indigenous Legal Conference, Conference Organising Committee, Canberra, Australia.
- Boyd, R & Hopkins, A 2010, 'Cross-examination of Child Sexual Assault Complainants: Concerns About the Application of s 41 Evidence Act', Criminal Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 149-166.
- Easteal, P & Hopkins, A 2010, 'Women and Criminal Law: Defences to Homicide', in Patricia Esteal (ed.), Women and the Law in Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Sydney, pp. 109-131.
- Boyd, R & Hopkins, A 2009, 'Drawing the Line Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Cross-examination of Child Sexual Assault Complainants: Concerns About the Application of s 41 Evidence Act 1995 (NSW & Cth)', Towards Restorative Justice, Conference Organising Committee, Sydney, Australia.
- Hopkins, A 2009, 'Teaching Evidence Law within the Framework of a Trial: Relating Theory to Practice as Students Take to Their Feet and Take Responsibility for the Trial Narrative', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, vol. 2, no. 1&2, pp. 173-184.