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IILAH Reading Group
The IILAH Reading Group meets every second Wednesday at 1pm. Our theme for this year is ‘The Office of the International Lawyer and the Plurality of Laws.’ Readings, dates and venues are available if you click through.
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Masterclasses and Roundtables
IILAH hosts a variety of interdisciplinary masterclasses and roundtables
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Publications
The research undertaken by IILAH members is published by a wide variety of leading international publishers, scholarly journals, professional journals, working papers, community and public interest outlets.
Annual Reports
IILAH produces an Annual Report capturing the outstanding events and research being achieved and performed by staff and students.
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Members of the Institute are currently involved in the below projects (this is not an exhaustive list, and will be progressively updated).
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Cold War International Law Project
Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson, Matthew Craven
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Critical Development Studies Network
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes (Deakin), Rebecca Monson (ANU), Gashahun Lemessa Fura, John Altman (Deakin), Sundhya Pahuja
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Strategic litigation on climate change in Europe
Jacqueline Peel, Hari Osofsy, Anita Foerster
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Corporate Energy Transition
Jacqueline Peel, Hari Osofsy, Brett McDonnell, Anita Foerster
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Transition to a clean energy future: the role of climate litigation
Jacqueline Peel and Hari Osofsy
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Legal Biographies
Shaun McVeigh, Peter Rush & Ann Genovese
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Eminent Scholars
Video interviews with eminent scholars within law and the humanities
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Constellations
Dr Rose Parfitt
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Children’s Rights: From Theory to Practice
John Tobin
People
IILAH is home to a dynamic group of scholars who are global leaders in their field. IILAH academics support emerging scholars by supervising graduate research students. IILAH also hosts visiting academics from within Australia and the world.
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Directors, Program Directors and Fellows
- Professor Sundhya Pahuja
IILAH Director
- Balawyn Jones
IILAH Research Fellow
- Dr Kathleen Birrell
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Rosemary Grey
MLS Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Adil Hasan Khan
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Dr Rose Parfitt
ARC Research Fellow
- Dr Shane Chalmers
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow
- Professor Michelle Foster
Program Director: International Refugee Law
- Associate Professor Ann Genovese
Program Co-Director: Australian Legal Histories
- Professor Kirsty Gover
Program Co-Director: Indigenous Peoples in International and Comparative Law
- Dr Tanya Lee Josev
Program Co-Director: Australian Legal Histories
- Professor Jurgen Kurtz
Program Director: International Investment Law
- Associate Professor Shaun McVeigh
Program Director: Jurisprudence of the South
- Dr Jennifer Beard
Program Director: Law and Development
- Dr James Parker
Program Director: Law, Sound and the International
- Professor Jacqueline Peel
Program Director: International Environment Law
- Associate Professor Peter Rush
Program Director: International Criminal Justice
- Professor Hilary Charlesworth
Program Co-Director: International Human Rights Law
- Professor John Tobin
Program Co-Director: International Human Rights Law
- Professor Margaret Young
Program Director: Fragmentation and Regime Interaction in International Law
- Dr Cait Storr
Program Director: Property and the International
- Professor Anne Orford
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, IILAH Director Emeritus, Founding IILAH Director (2005 - 2011)
- Professor Dianne Otto
Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law, Program Director: Feminist and Queer Approaches to International Law, Former IILAH Director (2012-2015)
Members
- Dr Anna Arstein-Kerslake
Director of the Disability Human Rights Clinic, Melbourne Law School
- Dr Olivia Barr
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Alison Duxbury
Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Raimond Gaita
Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King’s College London
- Professor Lee Godden
Director: Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Wendy Larcombe
Teacher and Researcher, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Andrew Mitchell
ARC Future Fellow, Director of Studies in International Economic Law, Melbourne Law School
- Ms Paula O’Brien
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Bruce ‘Ossie’ Oswald
Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Joo-Cheong Tham
Melbourne Law School
- Professor Tania Voon
Co-Director: Global Economic Law Network, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Amanda Whiting
Co-Director: Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School
- Treasa Dunworth
Associate Professor, University of Auckland
- Dr Marie Aronsson
Lecturer, University of Reading
- Andrea Leiter
PhD Student
Thesis: The making of a legal field - International Investment Law
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Ursula Kriebaum (Vienna)
- Meg Brodie
Associate Director, KPMG Australia Human Rights & Social Impact Services
- Bernice Carrick
PhD Student
Thesis: The Stratification of Equality Protections by Migration Status in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom?
Supervisors: Jenny Beard and Beth Gaze
- Emily Cheesman
PhD Student
Thesis: Children's rights based approaches to policies, services and programmes for Filipino street children
Supervisors: John Tobin and Helen Rhoades
- Debolina Dutta
PhD Student
Thesis: Sluts vs Saviours: The 'Political Society' of Sex Workers in India and the Political Economy of the Global Rescue Industry
Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Ann Genovese
- Carolyn Graydon
PhD Student
Thesis: Domestic Violence in Timor-Leste: Is There a Place for Indigenous Justice Systems?
Supervisors: Tim Lindsey and Dianne Otto
- Ingrid Landau
PhD Student
Thesis: Risks, Rights and Regulatory Efficacy: Can Human Rights Due Diligence Help Protect and Promote Rights at Work?
Supervisors: John Howe and John Tobin
- Liz Macpherson
PhD Student
Thesis: Indigenous water rights in Chile and Australia: Can indigenous water rights be sustainably integrated in water markets?
Supervisors: Maureen Tehan and Kirsty Gover
- Tayechalem Moges
PhD Student
Thesis: Developing an Emancipatory Human Rights Approach to End the Practice of (girl) Early Marriage in Ethiopia
Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Beth Gaze
- Josh Paine
PhD Student
Thesis: The International Judicial Function: A Comparative Study through the Lens of Environmental Cases
Supervisors: Anne Orford and Margaret Young
- Ana Maria Palacio Valencia
PhD Student
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis into the Determinants of the Resilience and Evolutionary Capacity of Integration Efforts in Latin American Sub-Regionalism through the Lens of the Pacific Alliance Project
Supervisors: Tania Voon and Andrew Mitchell
- Laura Petersen
PhD Student
Thesis: Law and aesthetics after the Holocaust: gestures of justice and restitution
Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
- William Phillips
PhD Student
Thesis: The Why and Wherefore of Human Rights: Examining the grounding relations of human rights
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Dale Smith
- Robi Rado
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
- Robin Robinson
PhD Student
Thesis: A question of jurisdiction: the recognition at common law of Australian Indigenous peoples' intra-group rights and interests under communal native title
Supervisors: Maureen Tehan and Kirsty Gover
- Anna Saunders
MPhil Student
Thesis: Enemy States and the United Nations: A Legal and Political History
Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Anne Orford
- Elizabeth Sheargold
PhD Student
Thesis: Safeguarding Regulatory Autonomy in the Negotiation and Drafting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Supervisors: Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon
- Valeria Vazquez Guevara
PhD Student
Thesis: Living Together with Law after Violent Conflict: Truth Commissions, Peacebuilding and Technologies of International Jurisdiction
Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
- Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval
PhD Student
Thesis: Using Regional Comparative Law to Solve and Provide Future Direction to the Challenges of the Central-American Integration System
Supervisors: Cheryl Saunders and Jurgen Kurtz
- Kay Wilson
PhD Student
Thesis: Mental Health Law: Abolish or Reform?
Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Bernadette McSherry
- Tom Andrews
PhD Student
Thesis: A Jurisprudence of Procedure
Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
IILAH is home to an international network of Associate Members who support the Institute's work through engaging with its research programmes.
- Professor Matthew Craven
Professor of International Law, University of London
- Dr Maria Elander
Lecturer, La Trobe Law School
- Dr Luis Eslava
Senior Lecturer, Kent Law School
- Associate Professor Judy Grbich
at Griffith University and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Feminist Law Journal
- Professor Kevin Jon Heller
SOAS University of London
- Professor Gerry Simpson
London School of Economics
- Assistant Professor Oishik Sircar
Jindal Global University
- Dr Guy Fiti Sinclair
Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Sam Balaton-Chrimes
Deakin University
- Professor Peter Fitzpatrick
Birkbeck, University of London
- Professor Fleur Johns
UNSW
- Professor Ruth Buchanan
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Forthcoming events
Past events
Previous Events (2014-2016)
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities organises conferences, public lectures, workshops, seminars and reading groups.
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities regularly welcomes local and international academic colleagues.
2018 Visitors
Co-Director, Centre For Critical International Law at Kent Law School
29 January - 1 June
Adjunct Professor Ian Duncanson
Adjunct Professor with the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Griffith Law School, Research Associate at the Institute for Postcolonial Studies
1 January - 31 December
Associate Professor Judy Grbich
Associate Professor with the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Griffith Law School, Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Feminist Law Journal
1 January - 31 December
Managing Editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Lecturer and Researcher at Griffith Law School
1 March - 31 March
Professor of Law at the Osgoode Hall Law School (York University), Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School
16 April - 2 May
Senoir Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London & Deputy Director at the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context.
1 May 14 June
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars, Lecturer at UNE School of Law
4 June - 15 June
Researcher (International Law) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
23 July - 30 November
Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School
23 August - 15 September
International Human Rights Scholar, Executive Director of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and Post Doctoral Fellow at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
30 November - 8 December
Applications for Visiting Scholar Programme
Thank you for for your interest in becoming a visiting scholar with IILAH. IILAH focuses its visiting scholar programme on people who already have ongoing collaborations with current IILAH members. If you are working on a publication or other project with a member of IILAH (or MLS faculty member), please let us know by completing this form with your collaborator and send to Connor Foley who will then be able to help set up your visit to MLS.
Alternatively, there is still the General Visitor Process to the Law School, which is accessible here, which can facilitate visitors without a faculty sponsor.
The process for generating your invitation letter can take up to 2 months, so please ensure you apply in plenty of time. Unfortunately, IILAH is not able to expedite this process on your behalf.
- 2017 Visitors
Associate Professor Vidya Kumar
Leicester Law School, University of Leicester
24 January - 11 April
Academic host Sundhya PahujaDr Henry Jones
MLS International Research Visiting Scholar
Durham Law School, Durham University
20 February - 31 March
Academic host Cait StorrDr John Morss
Senior Lecturer
Deakin University
6 March - 16 June
Academic host Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Judith Grbich
Griffith University
1 May - 31 December
Academic host Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Sara Ramshaw
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria (Canada)
7 July - 7 August
Academic host James ParkerJeswynn Yogaratnam
Charles Darwin University School of Law
1 September - 31 December
Academic host Sundhya Pahuja - 2016 Visitors
Dr Ivana Radacic
Senior Research Associate
Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb
4 January - 29 January
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoProfessor Diamond Ashiagbor
SOAS, University of London
18 December - 14 April
Academic host Associate Professor Shaun McVeighMr Nikolas Tan
Aarhus University & Danish Institute for Human Rights
11 January - 26 February
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterProfessor Matthew Craven
Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
Centre for Ottoman Studies
SOAS, University of London
28 February - 15 March
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaAssociate Professor Judith Grbich
Griffith Law School
24 May - 31 December 2016
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Sheila Jasanoff
Harvard Kennedy School
6 May - 4 June 2016
Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting FellowDr Kcasey McLoughlin
Newcastle Law School
23 August - 26 August 2016
Academic host Associate Professor Ann GenoveseDr Lourdes Peroni
Ghent University Law School
26 September - 16 December 2016
Academic host Professor Dianne Otto - 2015 Visitors
Mr Vernon Rive
Senior Lecturer/Barrister
AUT Law School, Auckland
6 July-6 November 2015
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterDr Maria Drakopoulou
Centre for Critical Thought
Kent Law School
University of Westminster
18-22 May 2015
Academic host Associate Professor Ann GenoveseProfessor Hélène Lambert
Westminster Law School
University of Westminster
20 April-1 May 2015
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterProfessor Matthew Craven
Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
Centre for Ottoman Studies
SOAS, University of London
7-13 April 2015
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaDr Cathryn Costello
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford
17 March-13 April 2015
Academic host Professor Michelle FosterDr Ronli Sifris
Faculty of Law
Monash University
IILAH Visitor: 16 February-15 May 2015
Academic host Professor Dianne Otto - 2014 Visitors
Ms Livia Johannesson
Department of Political Science
Stockholm University, Sweden
1 November-20 December 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Michelle FosterDr Helmut Philipp Aust
Public International Law and European Law
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1 October 2014-31 March 2015
Academic host Associate Professor Margaret YoungDr Adil Hasan Khan
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
1 October-31 December 2014
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Bai Guimei
Faculty of Law
Peking University
2-16 August 2014
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoDr Jason Taliadoros
School of Law
Deakin University
14 July 2014-28 February 2015
Academic host Dr Ann GenoveseMr Connal Parsley
Kent Law School
Eliot College, University of Kent
15 July-29 July 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Shaun McVeighMr Benjamin Schokman
Human Rights Law Centre
1 July-28 February 2015
Academic host Professor John TobinDr Richard Joyce
Faculty of Law
Monash University
1 July-31 December 2014
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Dino Kritsiotis
School of Law
University of Nottingham
27 May – 11 July 2014
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordMs Indira Rosenthal
International Secretariat, London
Amnesty International
31 March-31 July 2014
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoProfessor Vera Bergelson
Professor of Law and Robert E Knowlton Scholar
Rutgers School of Law
31 March-11 May 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Peter RushProfessor Diamond Ashiagbor
School of Law, SOAS
University of London
20 March-12 April 2014
Academic host Associate Professor Shaun McVeigh - 2013 Visitors
Associate Professor Mark Antaki
Law, McGill University
Montreal Canada
18 November–1 December 2013
Academic host: Associate Professor Peter RushDr Helen Carr
Kent Law School
University of Kent
5–10 September 2013
Academic host Dr Ann GenoveseProfessor Caroline Hunter
University of York Law School
5–10 September 2013
Academic host Dr Ann GenoveseProfessor Eva-Maria Svensson
University of Gothenburg
and University of Tromsø
28 February-30 April 2013
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordProfessor Dr María do Mar Castro Varela
Alice Salomon University, Germany
14 January-12 April 2013
Academic host Professor Sundhya PahujaProfessor Dr Nikita Dhawan
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
14 January-12 April 2013
Academic host Professor Sundhya Pahuja - 2012 Visitors
Dr Ivana Radacic
Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Croatia
3 October 2012-3 April 2013
Academic host Professor Dianne OttoDr Adriana Di Stefano
European Union Law, University of Catania
31 January-31 March 2012
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordDr Leila Brännström
Law, Lund University
16 January-30 April 2012
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordDr Levent Sabanogullari
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & Public International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
7 January-27 March 2012
Academic host Associate Professor Jürgen Kurtz - 2011 Visitors
Professor Jill Stauffer
Haverford College, USA
18 July-27 July 2011
Academic host Associate Professor Peter RushDr Eugene McNamee
Law, University of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland
15 July-15 August 2011
Academic host Associate Professor Peter RushDr Markus Gunneflo
Law, Lund University
12 February-21 May 2011
Academic host Professor Anne OrfordDr Matthew Nicholson
Law, UCL
6 February-21 February 2011
Academic host Professor Sundhya Pahuja
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Institute for Global Law and Policy
Harvard Law School
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Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute
Kings College London
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Australian Feminist Law Journal
Australia
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Humanity
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Sciences Po Law School
École De Droit
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Centre for the Study of Human Rights
London School of Economics and Political Science
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London Journal of International Law
Oxford University Press
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International Law at Westminster
University of Westminster
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Global Justice/Injustice
Justice Globale
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Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Centre for Critical International Law
University of Kent
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Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Melbourne, Australia
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Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
IILAH is home to an exceptionally active group of researchers, most of whom have developed international reputations as leading scholars in their fields. The research undertaken by IILAH members is published by a wide variety of leading international publishers, scholarly journals, professional journals, working papers, community and public interest outlets. Below is a selection of books published by IILAH members.
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