Directors and Staff
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Anne Orford is an Australian Professorial Fellow, Chair of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. She researches in the areas of international law and legal theory, with a focus on the international legal legacies of European imperialism in the fields of international economic law, the law relating to the use of force and human rights law. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (2003) and the edited collection International Law and its Others (2006). Anne has held visiting positions at Lund University and New York University, and has presented lectures and seminars by invitation at a range of institutions including the Central European University, the European University Institute, Keele University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Stockholm University, the University of Helsinki, the University of Oxford, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Toronto, Uppsala University, the University of Vienna and the World Trade Organization. She is currently the holder of a research-only Australian Professorial Fellowship, awarded by the Australian Research Council for work on a research project entitled Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law from 2007 to 2011. Anne is on the Advisory Boards of In-Spire Journal of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Intervention and State-Building and the Melbourne Journal of International Law. She has been guest editor of the Nordic Journal of International Law (in 2002), and was an editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal from 1994 to 1999. |
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Dr Jennifer Beard is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty and, together with Associate Professor Sundhya Pahuja, is a co-director of the Law and Development Research Programme at IILAH. In the Faculty, Jennifer undertakes teaching, research and writing in the areas of international law and development, property law, globalisation and the law, and critical legal theory. Jenniffer has recently published her first book: The Political Economy of Desire: International Law, Development and the Nation State (Cavendish-Routledge, 2007). The book is an interdisciplinary analysis of the genealogy of Western ‘development’ and the role Christianity, international law and the nation state have played in that history. Since that time, Jennifer has continued to focus her research on the relationship of law to society, belief systems, historical narrative and ethics. Jennifer has two further books due to be published in 2008. The first, Public International Law in Principle, is an academic text to be co-edited with Dr Andrew Mitchell and published by Thomson. The second is a critical analysis of the relationship between law and development and is to be co-authored with Sundhya Pahuja as part of the Routledge-Cavendish “Critical Approaches to Law” series. In past years, Jennifer has been a visiting fellow at the University of British Columbia Law School in Canada where she taught a PhD Seminar on Legal Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law; a teacher of International Law, Trade and Development in the LLM Programme in the Department of International Law and Human Rights at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica; and a visiting fellow at the University of Lund Law School in Sweden where she works in collaboration with Professor Gregor Noll on an analysis of the Refugee Status Determination processes of the UNHCR. Jennifer is also collaborating with Dr Hashim Tewfik, currently Ethiopia’s State Minister for Justice, on theories of rule of law development; as well as completing a critical history of the cab rank rule and the limits the rule places on legal ethics.
Dr Michelle Foster
Michelle Foster joined the Melbourne Law School as a Senior Lecturer in 2005. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of public law, international refugee law, and international human rights law. Michelle developed an expertise in international refugee law while completing an LLM and SJD at the University of Michigan, where she was a Michigan Grotius Fellow. Michelle’s doctoral thesis in international refugee law was supervised by James C. Hathaway, with whom she has co-authored a number of papers on various aspects of the 1951 Refugee Convention. While at Michigan she also participated in the 2001 and 2004 Michigan Colloquia on Challenges in International Refugee Law as student and rapporteur respectively. Michelle’s current research is related to her doctoral dissertation, entitled Refuge from Deprivation: Forced Migration and Economic and Social Rights in International Law.
Mr Jürgen Kurtz Jürgen Kurtz is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School. Jürgen researches and teaches in the various strands of international economic law, including the jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization and that of investor-state arbitral tribunals. He has a particular interest in examining whether treaty-based disciplines on regulatory autonomy can be conceived as mechanisms of improving governance outcomes in member states. In 2002, Jürgen was appointed an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University Law School. He has subsequently held a Grotius Fellowship at the University of Michigan Law School (2003-2004) and was appointed a research fellow at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2004. Jürgen acts as a consultant to a variety of governmental (AusAID) and international agencies (including UNDP and UNCTAD) on law reform and the implementation of investment and trade treaty commitments in developing countries. In 2008, he was appointed convenor (with Professor Joseph Weiler of New York University) of the inaugural course on the Law of International Investment at the Academy of International Trade Law in Macau.
Professor Anne Orford
Associate Professor Dianne Otto
Dr Dianne Otto is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Law Program of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at the University of Melbourne Law School. She was acting IILAH Director for the 2nd half of 2007, while Anne was overseas. Dianne was the inaugural Convenor of the University’s interdisciplinary Human Rights Forum in 2006. Her research interests include peace and security issues, international economic and social rights, international ‘equality’ jurisprudence, the exclusionary effects of legal representations of marginalized groups, gender issues in human rights and development, international human rights NGOs, and domestic implementation of international legal obligations. In the first half of 2007 she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Dianne has been active in a number of human rights NGOs including Amnesty International, Women’s Rights Action Network Australia, Women’s Economic Equality Project (Canada) and International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), and the Human Rights Law Resource Centre (Melbourne).
Associate Professor Sundhya Pahuja Sundhya's scholarship explores the changing role of law and legal institutions in the context of globalisation. Her research crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and challenges distinctions between public and private behaviours and the categories of economic and non-economic in new ways. The various national and trans-national regulatory practices (including law) through which governance is effected, especially in the context of the relationship between North and South, are a particular concern. To this end, Sundhya's work engages with public international law, international economic law and a range of critical and philosophical approaches to law and legal theory, including postcolonial, post-structuralist and feminist theories.
Associate Professor Jacqueline Peel Jacqueline Peel joined the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne, Australia in February 2002 and was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Law in September 2004 then promoted to Associate Professor in October 2007. She holds degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws (Hon I) from University of Queensland and Master of Laws from New York University where she was a Fulbright scholar. In 2003-2004, Jacqueline returned to NYU Law School as a Hauser Research Scholar and Emile Noel Fellow, undertaking a project on international trade and its environmental law intersections. Prior to her appointment at Melbourne, Jacqueline completed an internship at the United Nations International Law Commission, working with Professor James Crawford on the Commission’s State Responsibility articles. From 1997 to 1999 she practised environmental and planning law at the national law firm of Allens Arthur Robinson. Jacqueline's major research interests are in the areas of environmental law, international environmental law and international trade law and she has published articles on these topics in a number of prominent academic and international journals. Jacqueline also has inter-disciplinary expertise in the field of risk regulation, recently publishing a book on the implementation of the precautionary principle and completing her PhD thesis examining the use of science in risk assessment processes under international law. In addition, Jacqueline is currently researching and writing a book on Australian environmental law with a colleague in the Law Faculty, Dr Lee Godden (to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008/2009).
Associate Professor Peter Rush Peter Rush came to the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne in 1999. He has been a youth worker, an artist, a filmmaker and a scholar. Since 1988, he has taught in law faculties and criminology departments in Australia and in England. Courses taught have included criminal law, jurisprudence, legal discourse, gender and law, evidence, legal history and legal method, law and the body, law and criminal justice. He is the author of several books on criminal law and edited collections on jurisprudence and poststructuralist legal theory. A longstanding member of the critical legal studies movement in the United Kingdom, he was coordinator of its national conference and a founding member of the interdisciplinary legal theory journal Law & Critique. Additionally, he has been invited to present papers and lectures at institutions in the United States and Canada, such as Amherst College, Carleton University, and New York University. In Australia, he is a member of the editorial boards of several legal theory journals and has been active in the Australian Law and Literature Association and the Australian Law and Society Association. He contributes to community and professional debate concerning law reform, particularly in relation to the policing and legislation of sexual offences. In 2000, he made a short documentary film concerning justice, aesthetics and colonialism in the city of Melbourne. His current scholarship is focussed on psychoanalysis and law, with specific reference to trauma and to international criminal justice, on law and the contemporary politics of sovereignty, and on the jurisprudence of jurisdiction. |
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Ms Vesna Stefanovski Vesna Stefanovski joined IILAH in June 2007 as the institute’s administrator. Vesna holds a Bachelor of Arts with majors in marketing and media and a Certificate in Public Relations. In her previous position Vesna worked in marketing and communications in the transport industry and has extensive practical experience in organising major public and staff events, implementing communication strategies, managing community and media relations. She has a reputation for being enthusiastic, providing energy and spark to the team and doing an excellent job in building a positive corporate culture. As the IILAH administrator Vesna is involved in maintaining the IILAH web page, organising a range of conferences, public lectures, workshops and reading groups, as well as designing publications and flyers for the institute. |
