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Barry Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Utilitarianism, 19th century criminal law reform and codification<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comparative study of rule of law issues and 19th century British colonial and post colonial governance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"teaching-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>criminal and constitutional law<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>legal, political and social theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-media-appearances\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Media Appearances<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/champlainsociety.utpjournals.press\/podcast\/wty\/national-security-measures-political-trials-canadian-state-trials-1939-1990-with-barry-wright\">Interview with the Champlain Society<\/a> for their podcast series on new Canadian history books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-recent-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected Recent Publications:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Gouzenko, Petrov, and the Canadian and Australian Espionage Commissions:&nbsp; The Rule of Law and the Neo-Colonial Development of Cold War Security States\u2019 (2025) vol.36 (3) <em>King\u2019s Law Journal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Canadian State Trials Volume\u00a0Five: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990<\/em>\u00a0(co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018State Trials in Post-revolution British North America\u2019 in M. Davis, E. Macleod, and G. Pentland eds., <em>Political Trials in an Age of Revolution: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848,<\/em>&nbsp;London: Macmillan, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Macaulay\u2019s India Law Reforms and Labour in the British Empire\u2019 in Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren eds., <em>Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies<\/em>&nbsp;London: Routledge, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/law.uq.edu.au\/profile\/19869\/barry-wright\">Law UQ<\/a> for full listing of publications)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23793,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"J. 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