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Professor Pether earned her undergraduate degree and LL.B. from the University of Sydney in Australia, where she won the Total Australia Prize and and Walter Reid Memorial Grants in successive years. She later earned her Ph.D. in English Literature, also from the University of Sydney. Following law school, Professor Pether served as an Investigation Officer and Executive Assistant (Police) in the Office of the Ombudsman, New South Wales, and was a solicitor in the Sydney office of the national law firm of Freehill, Hollingdale & Page. In 2005, she joined the Villanova faculty from American University Washington College of Law, where she was Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric. Before joining the faculty at American University, she was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Wollongong University, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, and an Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University. She has also taught as visiting faculty member at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Irvine.
Professor Pether is a general editor of Law and Literature (University of California Press) and serves on the editorial boards of Law and Critique (Kluwer) and Social Semiotics and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section of the AALS.
Professor Pether’s recent scholarship focuses on legal theory; comparative constitutional law; the theory and practice of judging, particularly in the U.S. Federal Courts and in “post 9/11” common law constitutional contexts; and legal discourse and subject formation. |
