Rate My Professor James Parker

Parker's research focuses on the relations between law, sound, and listening, with emphasis on international criminal law, the law of war, and privacy. His monograph Acoustic Jurisprudence: Listening to the Trial of Simon Bikindi (Oxford University Press, 2015) received the Penny Pether Prize for early career scholarship in law, literature, and the humanities in 2017. Key publications also include Sonic Lawfare: On the Jurisprudence of Weaponised Sound (2018), Gavel in Objects of International Law (2018), A Lexicon of Law and Listening (2020), and Forensic Listening in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Saydnaya (the missing 19dB) (2020). He has provided media commentary for ABC, BBC, and CNN on topics including police use of the Long Range Acoustic Device and alleged sonic attacks at the US Embassy in Cuba in 2017. Parker has given public lectures and performances at Harvard University, Rietveld Academy, Gertrude Contemporary, firstdraft, Westspace, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. He co-curated the Eavesdropping project—a collaboration between Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Law School featuring exhibitions, public programs, and working groups on the politics of listening—in 2018 at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and 2019 at City Gallery Wellington. Since 2020, he has collaborated on Machine Listening, a platform for research and artistic experimentation on emerging forms of listening.