60 seconds @ UOW

Spring 2009, Convergent Journalism - UOW promotional mash-up

Ian Farrell is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wollongong. A former teacher with the UOW Faculty of Law and a Maths/LLB graduate, he is now working as a professor with the University of Texas(UT).

In the United States Ian worked with organisations appealing death penalty convictions, as well as two clinics that provided legal services to victims of domestic violence.

His research at UT looks at the 8^th Amendment of the US Bill of Rights; the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Ian’s research applies theories of moral philosophy to Court interpretations of the cruel and unusual clause.

Here Ian speaks with Melissa Coade about life as an expatriate and his interest in legal studies.