Dr Marett Leiboff - School of Law

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Senior Lecturer

BA Qld Grad.Dip.T. KGCAE , MA NSW
LLB(Hons) QUT LLM Lond PhD Griffith

Contact:

Room: C718 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 313 85181
Fax: (07) 313 82121
Email: j.leiboff@qut.edu.au

Dr Marett Leiboff specialises in law relating to arts, culture and the media. Before studying law, she acquired a broad experience as a teacher, working in Commonwealth government agencies, and in broadcasting policy at the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. She worked in house as a lawyer at the Australian Broadcasting Authority, and worked for the Litigation Reform Commission before becoming a full time academic in 1996. Marett's research focuses on broadcasting law, cultural heritage law, law and museums, law and the arts, cultural legal studies, and legal theory. She regularly publishes in these fields, and is the co-author of the Thomson publication Legal Theories: In Principle. Her PhD research undertook a critical analysis of the way that the law reaches decisions about culturally significant objects. Marett teaches broadcasting law components in the undergraduate and postgraduate media law units in the faculty.

Marett's research focuses on broadcasting law, cultural heritage law, law and museums, law and the arts, cultural legal studies, and legal theory. She regularly publishes in these fields, and is the co-author of the Thomson publication Legal Theories: In Principle. Her PhD research undertook a critical analysis of the way that the law reaches decisions about culturally significant objects.

Marett has also been involved in these fields at the community level, through the Arts Law Centre of Queensland, Playlab, and Museums and Gallery Services.

Marett introduced a specialist postgraduate unit - Select Issues in Art, Culture and the Law - in 2005, and established Creative Industries Legal Issues in the Creative Industries Faculty in 2001. She teaches broadcasting law components in the undergraduate and postgraduate media law units in the faculty. Marett is co-coordinator of Theories of Law, and with Mark Thomas, introduced a new online teaching program, after being successful in receiving a QUT Small Teaching and Learning Grant.

She has also received teaching awards at national, faculty and university level, and faculty research recognition and a faculty research award.

Units currently taught:

• LWN120 Select Issues in Media Law and Policy
• LWN153 Select Issues in Art, Culture & Law
• KKB275 Legal Issues (Creative Industries)

Research Interests:

• Cultural legal studies;
• Broadcasting law;
• Copyright and related rights;
• Law and the Arts;
• Legal theory