Graduate Researchers

Current CCCS Graduate Researchers

• Osayd Awawda

  Thesis title: The judicialisation of Politics in Palestine: What is the Role of the Constitutional Court in Resisting the Authoritarian behaviours of Fatah Regime in the West Bank?
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Simon Evans

• Anjalee De Silva

  Thesis title: Sticks, stones and sex: Addressing the gender gap in Australian vilification legislation
  Supervisors: Adrienne Stone and Katharine Gelber

• Elizabeth Hicks

  Thesis title: Judging Values: A Comparative Study of the Relationship between Values Reasoning and Legalism in Australia and Germany
  Supervisors: Adrienne Stone and Cheryl Saunders

• Troy Keily

  Thesis title: The Role of the 'Act of State' and 'Non-Justiciability' Doctrines in Limiting Judicial Review of International Affairs
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Richard Garnett

• Tony Mihalopoulos

  Thesis title: Imagining new modes of cultural co-existence for indigenous peoples and ethnocultural groups in Australia: an interdisciplinary study
  Supervisors: Beth Gaze and Lisa Sarmas

• Charmaine Rodrigues

  Thesis title: Revolution or coup?: Implications for constitutional process design
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and William Partlett

• Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval

  Thesis title: Overcoming Central America's Paradoxes: On Constitutionalism, Free Trade Agreements and Regional Integration
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Jurgen Kurtz

• Joshua Snukal

  Thesis title: Faux amis: Translating Canadian and French notions of the separation of powers and the rule of law in the context of the detention of suspected terrorists after 9/11
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Scott Stephenson

• Toerien Van Wyk

  Thesis title: Constitutionally guaranteeing information flow
  Supervisors: Adrienne Stone and Cheryl Saunders

Completed Graduate Researchers affilated to CCCS

• Kathy Adams

  Thesis title: Mediating Work and Family Responsibilities: A Comparative Study of Legislative Strategies
  Supervisors: Jenny Morgan and Beth Gaze

• Marco Bini

  Thesis title: The duty to act in the best interests of the public entity
  Supervisors: Ian Ramsay and Beth Gaze

• Anne Carter

  Thesis title: Proportionality and the proof of facts in Australian Public Law
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Jeremy Gans

• Hai Ha Do

  Thesis title: The Effectiveness of Legal Transplants: The case of conflict resolution in Vietnam
  Supervisors: Pip Nicholson and Sean Cooney

• Anna Dziedzic

  Thesis title: The appointment of foreign judges to courts with constitutional jurisdiction in the Pacific region’
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone

• Dylan Lino

  Thesis title: Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
  Supervisors: Adrienne Stone, Cheryl Saunders and Megan Davis

• Sally Low

  Thesis title: A legal history of the French Protectorate in Cambodia: 1863 to 1953
  Supervisors: Pip Nicholson and David Chandler

• Nurhafilah Musa

  Thesis title: The intergovernmental relations in the administration of Islamic matters in Malaysia – A potential use of cooperative federalist framework
  Supervisors: Carolyn Evans and Cheryl Saunders

• Leilani Elliott

  Thesis title: Words on Paper Cannot Save Children in Peril - Children and the Human Rights-Based Approach in Post-Conflict Situations: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality
  Supervisors: Carolyn Evans and John Tobin

• Tanya Josev

  Thesis title: A History of the "Judicial Activism" Debate in the United States and Australia
  Supervisors: Stuart Macintyre and Cheryl Saunders

• George Kailis

  Thesis title: A Public Right to Fish?
  Supervisors: Michael Crommelin, Stuart Kaye and Kirsty Gover

• Katy Le Roy

  Thesis title: Participatory constitution making: lessons from Fiji and Solomon Islands
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders

• Liz Macpherson

  Thesis title: The Indigenous Water Market: Commercial Indigenous Water Rights in Australia and Chile
  Supervisors: Maureen Tehan and Kirsty Gover

• Hajrah Saboor

  Thesis title: A Critical Analysis of Pakistan's Blasphemy Law
  Supervisors: Carolyn Evans and Amanda Whiting

• Elizabeth Southwood

  Thesis title: Keeping courts judicial
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone

• My Anh Tran

  Thesis title: Judicial review in private law: an examination of the court's role in reviewing exercises of discretion by privately appointed decision-makers
  Supervisors: Simon Evans, Matthew Harding

• Getachew Woldemariam

  Thesis title: Constitutional Protection of Human and Minority Rights in Ethiopia: Myth v. Reality
  Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Simon Evans