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Dr Angela Kintominas

Dr Angela Kintominas

Lecturer

PhD (Âé¶¹Éçmadou Sydney)

LLM (Columbia)

BA (Hons 1), LLB (Hons 1) (Âé¶¹Éçmadou Sydney)

Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Angela Kintominas (she/her) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law & Justice at Âé¶¹Éçmadou Sydney. Her areas of expertise spans feminist and critical theoretical approaches to gender, work and social reproduction, with a focus on the intersections of labour law, welfare states and migration regimes. She has worked on projects relating to temporary labour migration, family migration and transnational family life, global care chains and migrant care and domestic work, au pairing, childcare, and the platformization of care and domestic work in the gig economy.

Angela has published inÌýThe Economic and Labour Relations Review,ÌýGender Work & Organization, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, and the Anti-Trafficking Review, as well as in media outlets The Conversation and Women’s Agenda. Prior to joining Âé¶¹Éçmadou Law and Justice, she was a research associate with theÌýÌý(UTS/Âé¶¹Éçmadou), the Social Policy Research CentreÌý(Âé¶¹Éçmadou), and CEPAR (University of Sydney).

Angela is a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law JournalÌý(and former Managing Editor between 2021-2024). She is a member of the , a fellow of the Âé¶¹Éçmadou Gender Equality Hub and an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute at Âé¶¹Éçmadou Sydney.

Angela holds a PhD in Law from Âé¶¹Éçmadou Law and Justice, where she was a Scientia PhD Scholar. Her thesis won the 2024 Australian Legal Research Award for Best PhD as well as the Âé¶¹Éçmadou Dean's Award for Outstanding Thesis. Angela obtained a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, where she was a Lionel Murphy Scholar and was awarded the Walter Gellhorn Prize for highest academic achievement. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons I, Valedictorian) from Âé¶¹Éçmadou Sydney. Prior to joining academia, Angela worked as solicitor and is admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Location
Room 324, Level 3, Law and Justice Building
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Kintominas A; Berg L; Farbenblum B, 2021, 'Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers', in McAuliffe M (ed.), Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK / USA, pp. 236 - 250,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Genovese A; Curthoys A; Simmonds A; Kintominas A, 2025, 'Author Meets Readers: Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing', Australian Feminist Law Journal, pp. 1 - 18,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Kintominas A, 2025, 'Care in crisis: Au pairing during a global pandemic', Economic and Labour Relations Review,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Adamson E, 2024, 'Childcare by migrant nannies and migrant grannies: A critical discourse analysis of new policy solutions for securing reproductive labor in Australian households', Gender Work and Organization, 31, pp. 1290 - 1311,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hamilton M; Hill E; Kintominas A, 2021, 'Moral Geographies of Care across Borders: The Experience of Migrant Grandparents in Australia', Social Politics,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Berg L; Farbenblum B; Kintominas A, 2020, 'Addressing Exploitation in Supply Chains: Is technology a game changer for worker voice?', The Anti-Trafficking Review, pp. 47 - 66,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kintominas A, 2020, 'Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARE AND CARING, 4, pp. 451 - 452,
  • Other | 2020
    Baldassar L; Hill E; Hamilton M; Brennan D; Dymond T; Withers M; Stevens C; Kintominas A, 2020, Submission to the Select Committee on Temporary Migration on the impact temporary migration has on the Australian economy, wages and jobs, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions, ,
    Reports | 2020
    Berg L; Farbenblum B; Huang Y; Lee D; Saleh S; Sharma A; Kintominas A, 2020, "As If We Weren't Humans": The abandonment of temporary migrants in Australia during COVID-19, Migrant Worker Justice Initiative,
    Other | 2018
    Farbenblum B; Berg L; Kintominas A, 2018, Submission to Australian Human Rights Commission Consultation into Human Rights and Technology, ,
    Reports | 2018
    Farbenblum B; Berg L; Kintominas A, 2018, Transformative Technology for Migrant Workers: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks, Open Society Foundations, New York, ,
    Reports | 2018
    Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Brennan D, 2018, The Temporary Sponsored Parent Visa, Migrant Grandparents and Transnational Family Life, Âé¶¹Éçmadou Sydney, Sydney,
    Reports | 2016
    Finkelstein A; Mac Dougall S; Kintominas A; Olsen A, 2016, Surrogacy Law and Policy in the U.S: A National Conversation Informed by Global Lawmaking,
  • Media | 2021
    Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Hill E, 2021, New research shows how hard it is for ‘flying grannies’ to care for their Australian grandkids, ,
    Media | 2019
    Gibson J; Kintominas A; Symington A, 2019, Business and Human Rights: Current and Future Challenges
    Media | 2019
    Kintominas A; Hamilton M, 2019, Migrant grandparents to fill childcare gap, but at what cost?, ,
    Media | 2019
    Kintominas A, 2019, Addressing economic abuse: can we bank on it?, ,
    Media | 2019
    Kintominas A, 2019, Business, human rights and gender equality: working towards an intersectional, feminist and transformative agenda, ,

Best PhD, Australian Legal Research Awards (2024)

Dean's Award for Outstanding Thesis (2024)

Finalist, Âé¶¹Éçmadou 3MT Competition (2022)

Âé¶¹Éçmadou Postgraduate Research Council, HDR Student of the Year Award (2021)

Walter Gellhorn Prize for Highest Academic Achievement in LLM, Columbia Law School (2016)

James Kent Scholar (equiv. of First Class Honours), Columbia University Law School (2016)

Lionel Murphy Endowment Postgraduate ScholarshipÌý(2015)

Valedictorian of Graduating LLB Class, Âé¶¹Éçmadou Law School (2013)

Âé¶¹Éçmadou Law Dean’s List, Âé¶¹Éçmadou Law (2012)

Bill Ashcroft Prize forÌýBest Essay on Australian Literature, Âé¶¹Éçmadou Faculty of Arts (2010)

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My Research Supervision

Amarnath Boopalam Manjunath, ‘Is Labour Law Adequate to Protect the Rights of Street Vendors?’ (PhD) (with Christine Forster, Amelia Thorpe)

Aishwarya Singh, ‘Democratic Backsliding in India and the Role of the Supreme Court’ (PhD) (with Rosalind Dixon, Elisabeth Perham)

Daniel Black, 'Addressing Impediments to Worker Power through Multi-Employer Bargaining in a Fissured Australian Economy: Problems and Prospects' (LLB Honours)

My Teaching

Law and Social Theory (LAWS2820/JURD7222)

Employment Law (LAWS3028/JURD7328)

Legal Research and Writing (LAWS1055/JURD7155)

Legal Research & Writing: Australian Law (LAWS1160/JURD7160)Ìý

Federal Constitutional Law (LAWS2150 / JURD7250)

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