Overview
Dr Richard Joyce is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. His research interests are in the history, theory and political economy of international law, with a particular focus on sovereignty. He draws extensively on continental philosophy and post-colonial theory.
He is the author of Competing Sovereignties (Routledge, 2013) and a co-editor of Events: The Force of International Law (Routledge, 2011). Since 2020 he has led a major research project on ‘International Law and the Challenge of Populism’, funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Award. His collaborators on that project are Professor Sundhya Pahuja (MLS), Professor Andrew Benjamin (Monash), Professor James Martel (San Francisco State University) and Kojo Koram (Birkbeck School of Law), with earlier contributions from Dr Rose Parfitt (Kent Law School).
Prior to joining Melbourne Law School he taught at Monash University, Reading University, Birkbeck College, King’s College London and University College London, and served as a member of the Global Faculty of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School.