Past Graduate Researchers
2020
Debolina Dutta
Jindal Global Law School
Thesis: A Conduct of Conversations: Sex Worker Activists, Legal Academics and Indian Feminist JurisprudenceSupervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Ann Genovese
Josi Khatarina
Thesis: Decentralisation, Law, and the Failure of Palm Oil LicensingSupervisors: Tim Lindsey and Margaret Young
Ana Maria Palacio Valencia
Thesis: Of Blind People, Elephants and the Pacific Alliance Integration: Institutionalist Account and Proposals for ChangeSupervisor: Tania Voon
Alice Palmer
Thesis: Aesthetics of Image in International Environmental LawSupervisors: Lee Godden and Shaun McVeigh
William Phillips
Thesis: The Structure of Human Rights: A Philosophical InvestigationSupervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Dale Smith
Anna Saunders
Thesis: Constitutionalism as Postwar International LawSupervisors: Anne Orford and Hilary Charlesworth
Kay Wilson
Thesis: Mental Health Law: Abolish or Reform?Supervisors: Bernadette McSherry and Dianne Otto
2019
Oishik Sircar
Jindal Global Law School
Thesis: Ways of remembering: law, cinema and collective memory in the new IndiaSupervisors: Di Otto and Sundhya Pahuja
Andrea Leiter
University of Amsterdam
Thesis: The making of a legal field - International Investment LawSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Ursula Kriebaum (Vienna)
Sadaf Aziz
LUMS
Thesis: The State of Knowledge and Knowledges of the State in PakistanSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
2018
Hailegabriel Gedecho Feyissa
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: The Ethiopian civil code project: reading a ‘landmark’ legal transfer case differentlySupervisors: Pip Nicholson and Jennifer Beard
Tayechalem Girma Moges
Womens Rights Researcher
Thesis: Developing a transformative human rights approach towards the practice of (girl) early marriage in EthiopiaSupervisors: Dianne Otto and Beth Gaze
2017
Marie Aronsson-Storrier
University of Reading
Thesis: Covert operations and the development of international law on the use of forceSupervisors: Anne Orford
Meg Brodie
KPMG
Thesis: Law, change and socialisation: constructing an account of the role of NHRIs in addressing systemic human rights violationsSupervisors: Dianne Otto
Madelaine Chiam
La Trobe Law School
Thesis: International Law in Australian Public Debate: 2003, 1965, 1916Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth, Ann Genovese and Gerry Simpson
Sara Dehm
University of Technology Sydney
Thesis: Ordering human mobility: international law, development, administrationSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Anne Orford
Gashahun Lemessa Fura
Critical Development Studies Network, Australian Catholic University
Thesis: Transnational land acquisitions in subāSaharan Africa: competing claims and the role of (international) lawSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Jurgen Kurtz
Erin O'Donnell
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: Constructing the aquatic environment as a legal subject: legal rights, market participation, and the power of narrativeSupervisors: Lee Godden, Sundhya Pahuja and John Frebairn
Joshua Paine
University of Bristol
Thesis: International adjudicatory functions: a comparative study through the lens of environmental casesSupervisors: Anne Orford and Margaret Young
Connal Parsley
Kent Law School
Thesis: Jurisprudence without law? Law and the image in Giorgio AgambenSupervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
Dudi Rulliadi
Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia
Thesis: Public-private partnerships and the transformation of the third world state: the case of IndonesiaSupervisors: Anne Orford and Tim Lindsey
Cait Storr
University of Technology Sydney
Thesis: Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international lawSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
Marc Trabsky
La Trobe Law School
Thesis: Institutions of the dead: law, office and the coronerSupervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
2016
Martin Clark
University of Tasmania
Thesis (MPhil): A conceptual history of recognition in international law
Julia Dehm
La Trobe Law School
Thesis: Reconsidering REDD+: Law, life, limits and growth in crisis
Leilani Elliott
Proteknon Consulting Group
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
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Thesis: Valuing women in Timor Leste: the need to address domestic violence through reforming customary law approaches while improving state justice
Tanya Josev
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: The changing meaning of 'Judicial Activism' in the United States and Australia, 1947-2008
Joseph Kikonyogo
Monash University
Thesis: Africa and the ailing promise of the Doha development agenda in the WTO negotiations on agriculture
Liz Macpherson
University of Canterbury
Thesis: Commercial indigenous water rights in Australia law: lessons from Chile
James Munro
World Trade Organization
Thesis: Emissions trading schemes under international economic law
Sophie Rigney
UNSW
Thesis: Fairness, the rights of the accused, and procedure in International criminal trials
2011-2015
2015
Maria Elander
La Trobe Law School
Thesis: The figure of the victim in international criminal justiceSupervisors: Peter Rush and Dianne Otto
Eve Lester
Researcher, Consultant and Lawyer
Thesis: Making migration law: the foreigner, sovereignty & the case of AustraliaSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
2014
Peter Dirou
Asian Development Bank
Thesis: Food security as social provisioning: insights from the international approach and the Indonesian experienceSupervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
Angus Frith
Cumulus Consulting, Melbourne Law School
Thesis: Getting it right for the future: Aboriginal law, Australian law and native title corporationsSupervisors: Lee Godden
Rebecca Goodbourn
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Making places, making subjects: the representation and experience of Melbourne's lanewaysSupervisors: Alison Young and Peter Rush
Deborah Whitehall
IILAH Visiting Scholar
Thesis: Hannah Arendt and the turn to life in international lawSupervisors: Anne Orford and Anne Genovese
2013
Luis Eslava
Kent Law School
Thesis: Local space, global life: the everyday operation of international law and developmentSupervisors: Anne Orford and Shaun McVeigh
Yoriko Otomo
SOAS University of London
Thesis: Unconditional life: the time and technics of international lawSupervisors: Anne Orford and Shaun McVeigh
James Parker
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: Acoustic jurisprudence: listening to the trial of Simon BikindiSupervisors: Andrew Kenyon and Shaun McVeigh
2012
Olivia Barr
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: A minor jurisprudence of movementSupervisors: Peter Rush, Shaun McVeigh and Maureen Tehan
Cressida Limon
Western Sydney University
Thesis: Genes, biotechnologies and legal imaginings: a feminist analysis of intellectual property lawSupervisors: Anne Orford and Lee Godden
Walter Rech
University of Helsinki
Thesis: Enemies of mankind: the doctrine of international law enforcement in Vattel's Driot des gensSupervisors: Anne Orford and Sundhya Pahuja
2011
Samuel Alexander
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Property beyond growth: toward a politics of voluntary simplicitySupervisors: Lee Godden, Gerry Simpson and Jennifer Beard
Laura Ann Griffin
La Trobe Law School
Thesis: Borderwork: 'illegality', un-bounded labour and the lives of Basotho migrant domestic workersSupervisors: Salim Kassim-Lakha, Jenny Morgan and Jennifer Beard
Olivera Simic
Griffith Law School
Thesis: Distinguishing between exploitative and non-exploitative peacekeeping sex: the wrongs of 'zero tolerance'
2005-2010
2010
2009
Edward Mussawir
Griffith Law School
Thesis: Jurisdiction: the expression and representation of lawSupervisors: Petr Rush and Anne Orford
John Tobin
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: Children's right to health: seeking clarity in the content of Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ChildSupervisors: Anne Orford
2007
Amir Hossein Kordvani
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Thesis: International law, economic liberalization, and the movement of natural personsSupervisors: Anne Orford and
Juliet Rogers
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Fantasies of "female genital mutilation": flesh, law and freedom through psychoanlysisSupervisors: Peter Rush
2006
Heather Douglas
University of Queensland
Thesis: Legal narratives of indigenous existence: crime, law, and historySupervisors: Peter Rush and Lee Godden
Jacqueline Peel
Melbourne Law School
Thesis: International law and the determination of risk: Science, uncertainty and the role of valuesSupervisors: Anne Orford and Philippe Sands QC