Dr Sarah Kendall is a Research Fellow with Griffith University's Disrupting Violence Beacon and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Law. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in criminal law and procedure and evidence law. Her work focuses on justice responses to domestic, family and sexual violence, and emerging and re-emerging national security threats.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
  • 2025–present
    Research Fellow, Griffith University
  • 2025–present
    Adjunct Lecturer, Griffith University
  • 2024–2025
    Senior Legal Officer, Queensland Law Reform Commission
  • 2023–2024
    Legal Officer, Australian Law Reform Commission
  • 2022–2022
    Sessional Academic, The University of Queensland

Education

  • 2024 
    The University of Queensland, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2020 
    The University of Queensland, Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
  • 2020 
    The University of Queensland, Bachelor of Science
  • 2020 
    Queensland University of Technology, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Publications

  • 2024
    Espionage law in the UK and Australia: balancing effectiveness and appropriateness, Cambridge Law Journal
  • 2024
    The trauma-informed trial: A conceptual framework to guide practice, University of Queensland Law Journal
  • 2023
    Environmental Damage as a Threat to National Security: Australia's Legal Vulnerability to Enviro-Terrorism and Enviro-Sabotage, Public Law Review
  • 2023
    Preparing for espionage, foreign interference and sabotage: preventive justice or unjust pre-crimes?, Monash University Law Review
  • 2022
    Network Activity, Account Takeover and Data Disruption Warrants: How Novel Law Enforcement Powers Impact Media Freedom, Australian Journal of Human Rights
  • 2022
    Crimes of Communication: The Implications of Australian Espionage Law for Global Media, Communication Law and Policy
  • 2022
    How Australia's Foreign Interference Laws Undermine Press Freedom, Alternative Law Journal
  • 2022
    The Erosion of Academic Freedom: How Australian Espionage Law Impacts Higher Education and Research, Sydney Law Review
  • 2021
    Reconceptualising Reforms to Cross-Examination: Extending the Reliability Revolution Beyond the Forensic Sciences, Canberra Law Review
  • 2021
    Risk and Uncertainty in Public Interest Journalism: The Impact of Espionage Law on Press Freedom, Melbourne University Law Review
  • 2021
    Prosecution and Defence Strategies in Non-Fatal Strangulation Cases: Are They Influenced by Victim Brain Injury and PTSD?, Criminal Law Journal
  • 2019
    Australia's New Espionage Laws: Another Case of Hyper-Legislation and Over-Criminalisation, University of Queensland Law Journal

Contact Sarah for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision