Katherine Biber is a legal scholar, criminologist and historian at the University of Technology Sydney. She researches evidence and criminal procedure, and legal history. Her most recent book is The Last Outlaws: the crimes of Jimmy and Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia (Scribner, 2025). Currently she is researching the journeys and legacies of European emigre lawyers who came to Australia around the Second World War.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney

Education

  • 2003 
    University of Sydney, Master of Criminology
  • 2003 
    University of Sydney, Bachelor of Laws (Honours 1)
  • 2000 
    University of Sydney, Doctor of Philosophy (History)
  • 1994 
    University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts (Honours 1)(History)

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