Student Published Research Prize
The Student Published Research Prize is awarded annually for outstanding pieces of writing published by students of Melbourne Law School.
2021
- Eileen Yang (JD) - joint winner
Title - No-reliance Clauses: Are They Effective at Limiting a Principal’s Liability for Misleading or Deceptive Conduct
Program - JD
Publication Details - Building and Construction Law Journal
- Britta Maunder (JD) - joint winner
Title - An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: The Role for International Law in Preventing Pandemics
Program - JD
Publication Details - (forthcoming) Australian International Law Journal
- Katie Webber (MLM)
Title - The Precautionary Principle and Judicial Decision Making in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (forthcoming) Australian Journal of Administrative Law
- Danish Skeikh (Graduate Research) - joint winner
Title - Staging Repair
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - Law Text Culture
- Lev Bromberg (Graduate Research) - joint winner
Title - Numbing the pain or diffusing the pressure? The co-optation of PETA’s “naming and shaming” campaign against mulesing
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - Law & Policy
2020
- Nicholas Felstead (JD)
Title - 'The Australian and United States Approaches to National Security and Foreign Investment Regulation’
Program - JD
Publication Details - Australian Business Law Review
- Patrick McCabe (MLM) - joint winner
Title - Contracts and the Implied Freedom of Political Communication
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (forthcoming) Federal Law Review
- Jade Andrews (MLM) - joint winner
Title - Maintaining Privacy in Artificial Intelligence-driven Bioinformatics: An Inquiry into the Suitability of Australia’s Law
Program - MLM
Publication Details - Journal of Law and Medicine
- Julian Murphy (Graduate Research)
Title - Legislating in Language: Indigenous Languages in Parliamentary Debate, Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - University of New South Wales Law Journal
2019
- Jake Herd (JD) - joint winner
Title - 'Blocks of Lading' Distributed Ledger Technology and the Disruption of Sea Carriage Regulation
Program - JD
Publication Details - 18(2) QUT Review 306-317
- Deborah Tsai (JD) - joint winner
Title - What Makes an Athlete 'Female'? Issues with the Proposed Hyperandrogenism Regulations in Elite Athletics'
Program - JD
Publication Details - 12(1) Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal
- Patrick McCabe (MLM)
Title - An Australian Indigenous Common Law Right to Participate in Decision-Making
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2020) 20(1) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 52-85
- Penny Gleeson (Graduate Research)
Title - The Challenge of Medicinal Cannabis to the Political Legitimacy of Therapeutic Goods Regulation in Australia
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - (2019) 43(2) Melbourne University Law Review 558-604
2018
- Christian Slattery (JD)
Title - Fossil Fueling the Apocalypse: Australian Coal Subsidiaries and the agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures
Program - JD
Publication Details - (2019) 18(1) World Trade Review 109-132
- Angad Keith (MLM)
Title - Hunting for Efficacy: A Critical Evaluation of International Responses to Wildlife Tracking in the African Great Lakes Region
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2018) 35(5) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 542-559
- Marnie Lloydd (Graduate Research)
Title - Persistent Tensions? International Legal Perspectives on 'Other' Foreign Fighters
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - (2017) 60 German Yearbook of International Law 539-573
2017
- Luke Chircop (JD)
Title - A Response to Legal Justification for Amending Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
Program - JD
Publication Details - (2018) 22(2) Media and Arts Law Review 148-172
- Colette Downie (MLM)
Title - Strategically Deterring Genetic Entry Ahead of Patent Expiry: A Competition Law Antidote? Assessing Australian Pharmaceutical antitrust Enforcement after ACCC v Pfizer
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2017) 45(2) Australian Business Law Review 80-116
- Anne Carter (Graduate Research)
Title - Constitutional Convergence? Some Lessons from Proportionality
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - Chapter in M Elliott, J NE Varuhas and S Stark (eds), The Unity of Public Law? Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Hart Publishing, United Kingdom (2018) 373-394
2016
- Jack Maxwell (JD)
Title - Two Systems of Law Side by Side
Program - JD
Publication Details - (2015/2016) 19(2) Australian Indigenous Law Review 97-112
- Chiara Bryan (MLM)
Title - Co-opting the Precautionary Principle: The Victoria Planning Provisions' "One Kilometre Consent Requirement" for Wind Energy Facilities
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2016) 33(3) Environmental and Planning Law Journal 203-221
- Cait Storr (Graduate Research)
Title - Islands and the South: Reframing the Relationship between International Law and Environmental Crisis
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - (2016) 27(2) European Journal of International Law 519-540
2015
- James Nunez (JD/LLB)
Title - The implied freedom of poltical communication: A basis for journalists to challenge Australian Security Intelligence Organisations Act 1979 (Cth) s35P?
Program - JD/LLB
Publication Details - (2015) 20(3) Media and Arts Law Review 252-281
- Shaheer Tarin (MLM)
Title - An Analysis of the Influence of Islamic Law on Saudi Arabia's Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practices
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2015) 26(1) The American Review of International Arbitration 131-154
- Martin Clark (Graduate Research)
Title - British Contributions to the Concept of Recognition during the Interwar Period: Williams, Baty and Lauterpacht
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - Forthcoming in Robert McCorquodale and Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds), Contemporary Perspectives on British Influences on International Law (Martinus Nijoff, 2016)
2014
- Shawn Rajanayagam (JD/LLB)
Title - Does Parliament Do Enough? Evaluating statements of compatibility under the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act
Program - JD/LLB
Publication Details - (2015) 38(3) UNSW Law Journal
- Stella Gold (MLM)
Title - Bulwark of liberty or impunity for the wicked? The abrogation of the privilege against self-incrimination in the National Model Work Health and Safety Bill
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2014) 27 Australian Journal of Labour Law 1-30
- Marie Aronsson (Graduate Research)
Title - Remote Law-Making? American Drone Strikes and the Development of Jus ad Bellum
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - (2014) 1(2) Journal on the Use of Force and International Law 273-298
2013
- Collette Downie (JD/LLB)
Title - Will Australia Trust Arbitrators with Antitrust?: Examining the Challenges in International Antitrust Arbitrations to Develop a Competition Arbitration Model for Australia
Program - JD/LLB
Publication Details - (2013) 30 Journal of International Arbitration 221-265
- Devon Whittle (MLM)
Title - Frivolous Motions and Abuses of Process at the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2013) 22 (1) Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 1-30
- Jake Goldenfein (Graduate Research)
Title - Police Photography and Privacy: Identity, Stigma and Reasonable Expectation
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - (2013) 36 (1) UNSW Law Journal 256-279
2012
- Tom Dreyfus (LLB)
Title - The "Half-Invention" of Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law: From Cedaw to the Yogyakarta Principles
Program - LLB
Publication Details - (2012) 37 Australian Feminist Law Journal 33-50
- Anesti Petridis (JD)
Title - "Knocking at the Door of the Stone Fortress": Appeals to the Supreme Court under Japan's 1996 Code of Civil Procedure
Program - JD
Publication Details - (2012) 18 (34) Journal of Japanese Law (Zeitschrift Für Japanisches Recht) 229-260
- Baurzhan Kurmanov (MLM)
Title - Anti Gas Flaring Regulation and the Law: The History and Recent Developments in Kazakhstan and Nigeria
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2012) 10 (5) Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence
- Brian Mason (MLM)
Title - I'll have my Bond, Speak not Against my Bond": Constructive Trusts and Surplus Proceeds from Performance Bonds
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2012) 6 (1) Journal of Equity 74-108
- Walter Rech (Graduate Research)
Title - Rightless Enemies: Schmitt and Lauterpacht on Political Piracy
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - (2012) 32 (2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 235-263
2011
- Kathryn Tomasic (LLB)
Title - "Price Signalling" Amendments to the competition and consumer Act 2010 (Cth): A principled response to the problem of tacit collusion?
Program - LLB
Publication Details - (2011) 19 Competition and Consumer Law Journal 1 - 38
- Maya Narayan (JD)
Title - Creatures of statute, beast of burden: The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the heavy lifting of human rights
Program - JD
Publication Details - (2011) 66 AIAL Forum 1-17
- Adam Chernok (MLM)
Title - Entrapment Under Controlled Operations Legislation: A Victorian Perspective
Program - MLM
Publication Details - (2011) 35 (6) Criminal Law Journal 361-375
- Roisin Burke (Graduate Research)
Title - UN Military Peacekeeper Complicity in Sexual Abuse: The ICC or a Tri-Hybrid Court
Program - Graduate Research
Publication Details - in M Bergsmo (ed), Thematic Prosecution of International Sex Crimes (2012)
2010
- Eamonn Hortle (LLB/JD)
Title - Third-Line Forcing and the Notification Process; Yet Another Reason to Abolish the Per Se Prohibition
Program - LLB/JD
Publication Details - (2010) 18(1) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 39-70
- Jack O'Connor (LLB/JD)
Title - The Enforceability of Agreements to Negotiate
Program - LLB/JD
Publication Details - University of Tasmania Law Review (forthcoming 2011)
- Roisin Burke (Postgraduate)
Title - Status of Forces Deployed on UN Peacekeeping Operations: Jurisdictional Immunity
Program - Postgraduate
Publication Details - (2010) 16(1) Journal of Conflict and Security Law 63-104
2009
- Aakash Desai (LLB/JD)
Title - Commercial Trusts and Securitisation: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
Program - LLB/JD
Publication Details - (2010) 28 (1) Company and Securities Law Journal 10-31
- Luis Eslava (Postgraduate)
Title - Decentralization of Development and Nation-Building Today: Reconstructing Colombia from the Margins of Bogot'a
Program - Postgraduate
Publication Details - (2009) 2 (1) The Law and Development Review 281-366
2008
- Fergus Green (Undergraduate)
Title - Fragmentation in Two Dimensions: The ICJ's Flawed Approach to Non-State Actors and International Legal Personality
Program - Undergraduate
Publication Details - (2008) 9 (1) Melbourne Journal of International Law 47-77
- Yoriko Otomo (Postgraduate)
Title - Of Mimicry and Madness: Speculation on the State
Program - Postgraduate
Publication Details - (2008) 28 Australian Feminist Law Journal 53-76