Her research is interdisciplinary, and she writes primarily at the intersections of legal history, native title and legal theory. Her publications include Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire. At the University of Wellington, Shaunnagh has been one of the driving forces behind New Zealand’s Lost Cases Project, an on-line data base inspired by Bruce Kercher’s work in Australia. Shaunnagh is Vice-President of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society, the convenor of the annual Australia and New Zealand Law and History Conference to be held in Sydney this December.