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Alecia Simmonds

Alecia Simmonds is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her latest book, Courting: A History of Love and Law in Australia, was published by La Trobe University Press/Black Inc. in 2023.

Books & arts Alecia Simmonds 5 September 2025 How did female friendship become subject to suffocatingly high standards?
Books & arts Alecia Simmonds 24 April 2025 A new biography of Beatrice Faust illuminates a distinct strand of Australian feminism Books & arts Alecia Simmonds 4 October 2024 A new account of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial focuses on the victims of an unfathomed perpetrator Books & arts Alecia Simmonds 6 November 2023 Is Chanel Contos’s Consent Laid Bare part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist? Books & arts Alecia Simmonds 12 September 2022 Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
From the archive Alecia Simmonds 17 September 2021 Are mistaken beliefs about the history of mental health treatments stopping us from creating a humane system? Essays & reportage Alecia Simmonds 2 August 2021 When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships? National affairs Alecia Simmonds 18 June 2021 Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault? Essays & reportage Alecia Simmonds 14 May 2021 Women’s full right — and responsibility — to sit on juries came late to Australia