Dr Rhain Buth

 

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Dr Rhain Buth

BA Tennessee, JD (Juris Doctorate) Washington, PhD Melb.

Position: Lecturer, Justice and Legal Studies
Office: D1.31
Tel: +61 7 5459 4837
Email: rbuth@usc.edu.au

Teaching areas

  • Australian legal system
  • Criminology
  • Criminal justice
  • Criminal law

Research areas

  • Conflict and dispute resolution and management
  • International globalisation issues relating to law, justice and social change
  • Socio-legal aspects of risk and risk management pertaining to both the administration of civil and criminal justice
  • Social theory and the application of social theory to contemporary research in socio-legal and criminological issues

Profile

Dr Rhain Buth has a wide range of professional experiences stemming from his work as a white-collar defence attorney in the United States, with his primary areas of specialisation in money-laundering and project-based investigations. Rhain has worked in numerous multi-disciplinary professional teams, particularly in adversarial settings in the private sector. In the public sector, he worked in South Africa with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in Northern Ireland with the Irish Emergency Parades Commission, with former United States Senator Paul Wellstone’s office as well as in other international settings.

Prior to arriving at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Rhain was the acting coordinator of the Socio-Legal Program at the University of Melbourne, and lectured in both criminology and socio-legal associated areas. His current research concentrates on socio-legal aspects of dispute management and conflict resolution in the Australian setting as well as investigating the potentials and limitations of law in relation to specific contemporary issues relating to multiculturalism, risk and globalisation.

Publications

Journal articles
  • Buth R. 2006. Beyond legal studies: criminology and socio-legal studies, Compak: The Journal of Victorian Commercial Teachers Association, 1 March, 31-33.
  • Buth R. 2006. Considering the limits of ADR, Compak: The Journal of the Victorian Commercial Teachers Association, 1 June, 34-36.
Conference papers
  • Buth R. 2006. Domains of risk in community justice. In: Community Development in a Global Risk Society Conference, 20-22 April, Deakin University.
  • Buth R. 2004. Risky comparisons: perspectives on ADR in Australia, England and the US, In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 6-8 April, University of Glasgow.
  • Buth R. 2003. Self-reflexive dispute regulation: ADR, In: Conference of Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, 30 June - 3 July, University of Melbourne.
  • Buth R. 2003. Tit-for-tat: cooperation and conflict in ADR, In: Center for Regional and Global Study: Global Dimensions of Cooperation and Conflict, 6 February, Old Dominion University.
  • Buth R. 2002. ADR: identities and politics in a globalised world, In: Conference on Identity in a Globalised World, 21 November, University of Melbourne.
Seminar papers
  • Buth R. 2006. The risk society, social sciences and disputing, Department of Criminology Presentation Series, 24 October, University of Melbourne.
  • Buth R. 2004. Conceptualising law in the risk society, Presentation to Institute of Genetics, Bio-Risks and Society, 10 March, Nottingham University.

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