Past Graduate Researchers

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

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Ursula Kriebaum (Vienna)

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

Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh

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

Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Beth Gaze

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thesis: Emissions trading schemes under international economic law

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

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: 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: 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'

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: 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