Timothy Peters

Biography

Dr Tim Peters is a critical and cultural legal scholar based in the School of Law and Society. His research is interdisciplinary and has two major focuses. The first examines the intersections of legal theory, theology and popular culture and has been the subject of a number of published articles and book chapters, including the 2022 monograph from Edinburgh University Press, A Theological Jurisprudence of Popular Cinema: Superheros, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law. His second research focus is on critical theories and genealogies of the corporation from the perspective of political and economic theology.

In 2019, Dr Peters was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for the project 'New Approaches to Corporate Legality: Beyond Neoliberal Governance'. This three-year project seeks to critically rethink and reconceptualise approaches to the corporation understood as a social, economic and legal entity.

His professional background is in banking and finance and he has taught cultural legal studies, corporations law, associations law, securities regulation and corporate takeovers and competition and consumer law.

Dr Peters is currently the president of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australia and a management committee member of the Society of Corporate Law Academics and the Graphic Justice Research Alliance. He sits on Editorial Boards for a number of law and humanities and critical legal journals and book series.

He has experience supervising honours and PhD students in corporate law, banking & finance law, cultural legal studies, legal theory, law and theology.

Research areas

1. Corporate Law
2. Theories of the Corporation
3. Political & Economic Theology
4. Cultural legal studies
5. Law and film
6. Law and the visual

Teaching areas

1. Cultural Legal Studies
2. Corporations Law
3. Competition and Consumer Law
4. Legal Theory