IILAH Director

IILAH Research Fellow

McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow

McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow

McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow

Program Director: International Refugee Law, Director: Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness

Program Co-Director: Australian Legal Histories

Program Dirctor: Indigenous Peoples in International and Comparative Law

Program Co-Director: Australian Legal Histories

Program Director: Jurisprudence of the South

Program Director: Law and Development

Program Co-Director: Law, Science, Technology and Society

Program Co-Director: Law, Science, Technology and Society, Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne School of Government

Program Director: International Environment Law

Program Director: International Criminal Justice

Program Co-Director: International Human Rights Law

Program Co-Director: International Human Rights Law

Program Director: Fragmentation and Regime Interaction in International Law

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, IILAH Director Emeritus, Founding IILAH Director (2005 - 2011)

Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law, Program Director: Feminist and Queer Approaches to International Law, Former IILAH Director (2012-2015)

Director of the Disability Human Rights Clinic, Melbourne Law School

Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School

Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School

Director: Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School

Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School

Teacher and Researcher, Melbourne Law School

Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School

Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School

Postdoctoral Research Associate in History, University of Melbourne

Melbourne Law School

Co-Director: Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School

PhD Student

Thesis: A Jurisprudence of Procedure

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh

PhD Student

Thesis: International Climate Finance and the Philippine Climate Change Response: A Legal and Critical Analysis of Rules, Institutions and Structures

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Margaret Young

PhD Student

Thesis: The State of Knowledge and Knowledges of the State in Pakistan

Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja

PhD Student

Thesis: Supplementing Gaps in Social Protections Within the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry: A Role for Business

Supervisors: Jennifer Beard and Amanda Whiting

PhD Student

Thesis: Migration Status Equality in the Midst of the Border

Supervisors: Jenny Beard and Beth Gaze

PhD Student

Thesis: Bringing Street Childrens' Rights to Life: Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in the Philippines

Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and John Tobin

PhD Student

Thesis: Law’s handmaids: text, image, resistance and the rule of law

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Ann Genovese

PhD Student

Thesis: Performing Dissent

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh

PhD Student

Thesis: Human Rights for the Algorithmic Society

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Hilary Charlesworth

PhD Student

Thesis: The Imperial Sea: Imaginaries of Ocean Rule of Law and Development

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Margaret Young

PhD Student

Thesis: Activist Stories of Law: Adda with Sexworkers and Academics in Postcolonial India

Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Ann Genovese

PhD Student

Thesis: African states’ engagement with international law: a theoretical exposition

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Gerry Simpson

PhD Student

Thesis: The Legal Forms and Force of Truth Commissions

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh

PhD Student

Thesis: From rights to risks: transnational labour regulation and the emerging business of human rights due diligence

Supervisors: John Howe and John Tobin

PhD Student

Thesis: The making of a legal field - International Investment Law

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Ursula Kriebaum (Vienna)

PhD Student

Thesis: Beyond the Universality of International Law: Earth Jurisprudences and Ruptures from the Peripheries

Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Sundhya Pahuja

PhD Student

Thesis: Can the master’s tools dismantle the master’s house? Queer perspectives on law, difference, and radicalism after marriage equality in Australia

Supervisors: Elizabeth Gaze and Ann Genovese

PhD Student

Thesis: Procedures of the International Court: Theory, Function and Practice

Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Margaret Young

PhD Student

Thesis: State Practice in Modern International Human Rights Law: A Case Study on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Sundhya Pahuja

PhD Student

Thesis: Aesthetics of Image in International Environmental Law

Supervisors: Lee Godden and Shaun McVeigh

PhD Student

Thesis: Forms of Restitution after the Holocaust: encounters between art and law

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh

PhD Student

Thesis: The Why and Wherefore of Human Rights: Examining the grounding relations of human rights

Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Dale Smith

PhD Student

Thesis: Trading in People and Trading in Services: The Political Economy of Indians' International Labour Mobility, the Development Project and International Law

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Jürgen Kurtz

PhD Student

Thesis: The relationship between resources and human rights in mental health law, policy and practice

Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Bernadette McSherry

Lecturer, University of Reading

Deakin University

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Lecturer, La Trobe Law School

Professor of International Law, SOAS University of London

Lecturer, La Trobe Law School

Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Associate Professor, University of Auckland

Lecturer, La Trobe Law School

Reader in Law, Kent Law School and Co-Director for the Center for Critical International Law (CeCIL)

Birkbeck, University of London

Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King’s College London

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney

Associate Dean, UNSW Law

at Griffith University and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Feminist Law Journal

University of Amsterdam

UNSW

Senior Lecturer, Monash University

Independent Researcher and Consultant

Lecturer, Kent Law School

University of Victoria, Canada

London School of Economics

Jindal Global University

Victoria University of Wellington

Curator, Researcher and Sound Artist, Liquid Architecture

Thesis: Ways of remembering: law, cinema and collective memory in the new India

Supervisors: Di Otto and Sundhya Pahuja

Thesis: The Ethiopian civil code project: reading a ‘landmark’ legal transfer case differently

Supervisors: Pip Nicholson and Jennifer Beard

Thesis: Developing a transformative human rights approach towards the practice of (girl) early marriage in Ethiopia

Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Beth Gaze

Thesis: A question of jurisdiction: the recognition at common law of Australian Indigenous peoples' intra-group rights and interests under communal native title

Supervisors: Kirsty Gover and Maureen Tehan

Thesis: Covert operations and the development of international law on the use of force

Supervisors: Anne Orford

Thesis: Law, change and socialisation: constructing an account of the role of NHRIs in addressing systemic human rights violations

Supervisors: Dianne Otto

Thesis: International Law in Australian Public Debate: 2003, 1965, 1916

Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth, Ann Genovese and Gerry Simpson

Thesis: Ordering human mobility: international law, development, administration

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Anne Orford

Thesis: Transnational land acquisitions in sub‐Saharan Africa: competing claims and the role of (international) law

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Jurgen Kurtz

Thesis: Constructing the aquatic environment as a legal subject: legal rights, market participation, and the power of narrative

Supervisors: Lee Godden, Sundhya Pahuja and John Frebairn

Thesis: International adjudicatory functions: a comparative study through the lens of environmental cases

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Margaret Young

Thesis: Jurisprudence without law? Law and the image in Giorgio Agamben

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: Public-private partnerships and the transformation of the third world state: the case of Indonesia

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Tim Lindsey

Thesis: Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: Institutions of the dead: law, office and the coroner

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis (MPhil): A conceptual history of recognition in international law

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Kirsty Gover

Thesis: Reconsidering REDD+: Law, life, limits and growth in crisis

Supervisors: Maureen Tehan, Margaret Young and Lee Godden

Thesis: How do institutions engage with the idea of a human rights-based approach to matters involving children? A case study of UNICEF and the World Bank

Supervisors: John Tobin and Carolyn Evans

Thesis: Valuing women in Timor Leste: the need to address domestic violence through reforming customary law approaches while improving state justice

Supervisors: Tim Lindsey and Dianne Otto

Thesis: The changing meaning of 'Judicial Activism' in the United States and Australia, 1947-2008

Supervisors: Stuart McIntyre and Cheryl Saunders

Thesis: Africa and the ailing promise of the Doha development agenda in the WTO negotiations on agriculture

Supervisors: Tania Voon and Pip Nicholson

Thesis: Commercial indigenous water rights in Australia law: lessons from Chile

Supervisors: Maureen Tehan and Kirsty Gover

Thesis: Emissions trading schemes under international economic law

Supervisors: Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Young

Thesis: Fairness, the rights of the accused, and procedure in International criminal trials

Supervisors: Tim McCormack, Peter Rush and Peter Morrissey

Thesis: The figure of the victim in international criminal justice

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Dianne Otto

Thesis: Making migration law: the foreigner, sovereignty & the case of Australia

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: Food security as social provisioning: insights from the international approach and the Indonesian experience

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: Getting it right for the future: Aboriginal law, Australian law and native title corporations

Supervisors: Lee Godden

Thesis: Making places, making subjects: the representation and experience of Melbourne's laneways

Supervisors: Alison Young and Peter Rush

Thesis: Hannah Arendt and the turn to life in international law

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Anne Genovese

Thesis: Local space, global life: the everyday operation of international law and development

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: Unconditional life: the time and technics of international law

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: Acoustic jurisprudence: listening to the trial of Simon Bikindi

Supervisors: Andrew Kenyon and Shaun McVeigh

Thesis: A minor jurisprudence of movement

Supervisors: Peter Rush, Shaun McVeigh and Maureen Tehan

Thesis: Genes, biotechnologies and legal imaginings:  a feminist analysis of intellectual property law

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Lee Godden

Thesis: Enemies of mankind: the doctrine of international law enforcement in Vattel's Driot des gens

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Sundhya Pahuja

Thesis: Property beyond growth: toward a politics of voluntary simplicity

Supervisors: Lee Godden, Gerry Simpson and Jennifer Beard

Thesis: Borderwork: 'illegality', un-bounded labour and the lives of Basotho migrant domestic workers

Supervisors: Salim Kassim-Lakha, Jenny Morgan and Jennifer Beard

Thesis: Distinguishing between exploitative and non-exploitative peacekeeping sex: the wrongs of 'zero tolerance'

Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Michelle Foster

Thesis: Recognition, redistribution and resistance: the legalisation of the right to health and its potential and limits in Africa

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Jennifer Beard

Thesis: Jurisdiction: the expression and representation of law

Supervisors: Petr Rush and Anne Orford

Thesis: Children's right to health:  seeking clarity in the content of Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Supervisors: Anne Orford

Thesis: International law, economic liberalization, and the movement of natural persons

Supervisors: Anne Orford and

Thesis: Fantasies of "female genital mutilation":  flesh, law and freedom through psychoanlysis

Supervisors: Peter Rush

Thesis: Legal narratives of indigenous existence: crime, law, and history

Supervisors: Peter Rush and Lee Godden

Thesis: International law and the determination of risk: Science, uncertainty and the role of values

Supervisors: Anne Orford and Philippe Sands QC

Thesis: Aporias of sovereignty

Supervisors: Peter Rush

25 February - 30 April

Friedrich Alexander Universität

1 February - 31 January 2021

Monash University

20 January - 19 July

University of Technology Sydney

1 January - 31 December

Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University and Editor-in-Chief, Australian Feminist Law Journal