Past Graduate Researchers
2020
Debolina Dutta
Thesis: A Conduct of Conversations: Sex Worker Activists, Legal Academics and Indian Feminist Jurisprudence
Josi Khatarina
Thesis: Decentralisation, Law, and the Failure of Palm Oil Licensing
Ana Maria Palacio Valencia
Thesis: Of Blind People, Elephants and the Pacific Alliance Integration: Institutionalist Account and Proposals for Change
Alice Palmer
Thesis: Aesthetics of Image in International Environmental Law
William Phillips
Thesis: The Structure of Human Rights: A Philosophical Investigation
Anna Saunders
Thesis: Constitutionalism as Postwar International Law
Kay Wilson
Thesis: Mental Health Law: Abolish or Reform?
2019
Oishik Sircar
Thesis: Ways of remembering: law, cinema and collective memory in the new India
Andrea Leiter
Thesis: The making of a legal field - International Investment Law
Sadaf Aziz
Thesis: The State of Knowledge and Knowledges of the State in Pakistan
2018
Hailegabriel Gedecho Feyissa
Thesis: The Ethiopian civil code project: reading a ‘landmark’ legal transfer case differently
Tayechalem Girma Moges
Thesis: Developing a transformative human rights approach towards the practice of (girl) early marriage in Ethiopia
2017
Marie Aronsson-Storrier
Thesis: Covert operations and the development of international law on the use of force
Meg Brodie
Thesis: Law, change and socialisation: constructing an account of the role of NHRIs in addressing systemic human rights violations
Madelaine Chiam
Thesis: International Law in Australian Public Debate: 2003, 1965, 1916
Sara Dehm
Thesis: Ordering human mobility: international law, development, administration
Gashahun Lemessa Fura
Thesis: Transnational land acquisitions in sub‐Saharan Africa: competing claims and the role of (international) law
Erin O'Donnell
Thesis: Constructing the aquatic environment as a legal subject: legal rights, market participation, and the power of narrative
Joshua Paine
Thesis: International adjudicatory functions: a comparative study through the lens of environmental cases
Connal Parsley
Thesis: Jurisprudence without law? Law and the image in Giorgio Agamben
Dudi Rulliadi
Thesis: Public-private partnerships and the transformation of the third world state: the case of Indonesia
Cait Storr
Thesis: Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law
Marc Trabsky
Thesis: Institutions of the dead: law, office and the coroner
2016
Martin Clark
Thesis (MPhil): A conceptual history of recognition in international law
Julia Dehm
Thesis: Reconsidering REDD+: Law, life, limits and growth in crisis
Leilani Elliot
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
Carolyn Graydon
Thesis: Valuing women in Timor Leste: the need to address domestic violence through reforming customary law approaches while improving state justice
Tanya Josev
Thesis: The changing meaning of 'Judicial Activism' in the United States and Australia, 1947-2008
Joseph Kikonyogo
Thesis: Africa and the ailing promise of the Doha development agenda in the WTO negotiations on agriculture
Liz Macpherson
Thesis: Commercial indigenous water rights in Australia law: lessons from Chile
James Munro
Thesis: Emissions trading schemes under international economic law
Sophie Rigney
Thesis: Fairness, the rights of the accused, and procedure in International criminal trials
2011-2015
2015
Maria Elander
Thesis: The figure of the victim in international criminal justice
Eve Lester
Thesis: Making migration law: the foreigner, sovereignty & the case of Australia
2014
Peter Dirou
Thesis: Food security as social provisioning: insights from the international approach and the Indonesian experience
Angus Frith
Thesis: Getting it right for the future: Aboriginal law, Australian law and native title corporations
Rebecca Goodbourn
Thesis: Making places, making subjects: the representation and experience of Melbourne's laneways
Deborah Whitehall
Thesis: Hannah Arendt and the turn to life in international law
2013
Luis Eslava
Thesis: Local space, global life: the everyday operation of international law and development
Yoriko Otomo
Thesis: Unconditional life: the time and technics of international law
James Parker
Thesis: Acoustic jurisprudence: listening to the trial of Simon Bikindi
2012
Olivia Barr
Thesis: A minor jurisprudence of movement
Cressida Limon
Thesis: Genes, biotechnologies and legal imaginings: a feminist analysis of intellectual property law
Walter Rech
Thesis: Enemies of mankind: the doctrine of international law enforcement in Vattel's Driot des gens
2011
Samuel Alexander
Thesis: Property beyond growth: toward a politics of voluntary simplicity
Laura Ann Griffin
Thesis: Borderwork: 'illegality', un-bounded labour and the lives of Basotho migrant domestic workers
Olivera Simic
Thesis: Distinguishing between exploitative and non-exploitative peacekeeping sex: the wrongs of 'zero tolerance'
2005-2010
2010
Daniel Wanjau Muriu
Thesis: Recognition, redistribution and resistance: the legalisation of the right to health and its potential and limits in Africa
2009
Edward Mussawir
Thesis: Jurisdiction: the expression and representation of law
John Tobin
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
2007
Amir Hossein Kordvani
Thesis: International law, economic liberalization, and the movement of natural persons
Juliet Rogers
Thesis: Fantasies of "female genital mutilation": flesh, law and freedom through psychoanlysis
2006
Heather Douglas
Thesis: Legal narratives of indigenous existence: crime, law, and history
Jacqueline Peel
Thesis: International law and the determination of risk: Science, uncertainty and the role of values
2005
Antonis Tsonis
Thesis: Aporias of sovereignty