About


Lawyer and researcher working at the intersection of critical jurisprudence and digital media.

Julian’s work explores questions of justice, relationality, and legal pluralism through video games, visual media, and collaborative design. They draw on feminist, queer, and decolonial methods to think with—and against—systems of governance and meaning-making.

Julian is an Affiliate Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, where they work on the Australian Ad Observatory project.

Julian also practices as a competition and consumer lawyer. They have worked across corporate and public interest law, and have taught media studies at universities.

Phd Candidate
Melbourne Law School

Lawyer
Allens
Research Areas
  1. Critical Legal Theory
  2. Decolonial Jurispudence
  3. Video Game Studies
Current Research



Video Games as Minor Jurisprudence: Collaborative Game Design and Legal Pluralism in Australia


My PhD project explores how video games can help foster productive sites of encounter for understanding legal pluralism in Australia. Focussing on collaborative video game design as a creative method,  my project evaluates the extent to which video games and intereractive digital media can act as an effective prefigurative pedagogical tool and jurisprudential object of inquiry for imagining decolonised law.

Algorithmic Greenwashing - Green claims in the Australian Ad Observatory


As part of the ADM+S led project, the Australian Ad Observatory, our research demonstrates how consumers experience evironmental and green advertising on their social media feeds. Our research suggests that the consumer experience is awash with vague, unsubstantiated and potentially misleading environmental claims. 
Further, it suggests that the flows of ads that consumers are served act to tune consumers’ experience towards various narratives of green identities. Preliminary finding suggests a need to attend to a new form of ‘algorithmic’ greenwashing - where the algorithmic model of advertising ‘tunes’ green vibes in both ads that make explicit green claims and those that do not. 




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