Directors and Staff
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Anne Orford is an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. She has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, and will take up this position on 1 July 2009. Anne researches in the areas of international law and legal theory, with a current focus on histories of international law, statecraft and empire. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (CUP, 2003) and the edited collection International Law and its Others (CUP, 2006). Anne was awarded a research-only Australian Professorial Fellowship by the Australian Research Council to undertake a project on Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law from 2007 to 2011. As part of that project, she is finalising work on a book entitled International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (CUP, forthcoming 2010). The book offers a history, from Hobbes to the UN, of attempts to ground de facto authority on the capacity to guarantee security and protection.
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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. Jennifer is the author of: 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. For instance, Jennifer has just completed a critical history of the cab rank rule and the limits the rule places on legal ethics. Jennifer is also the co -editor and contributing author with Dr Andrew Mitchell of Public International Law in Principle, an academic text to be published by Thomson in 2009. Also in 2009, Jennifer will be involved in three international studies. The first involves a critical analysis of theories of recognition in international law in collaboration with Professor Gregor Noll at Lund University Law School. The second project involves a critical study of the relationship between law and development in Ethiopia based on empirical studies of Federal legislation regulating NGOs. The third is a collaboration with Associate Professor Sundhya Pahuja on the application of critical pedagogy in their teaching of a fully on-line, interdisciplinary subject across 5 universities called “Globalisation and the Law”. 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.
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.
Dr Kirsty Gover
Dr Kirsty Gover recently graduated from the New York University (NYU) JSD Program, where she was an Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) Graduate Scholar and New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Fellow. Her dissertation is entitled “Constitutionalizing Tribalism: States, Tribes and Membership Governance in
Mr Jürgen Kurtz 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 the impact of treaty-based disciplines on regulatory autonomy and development strategies of member states. Jürgen's work has been published in a range of leading international law journals and has been cited by international tribunals in adjudication. In 2002, Jürgen was appointed an Emile Noel Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law 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. Most recently, Jürgen was appointed (in 2008) as the inaugural convenor of the General Course on International Investment Law of the Academy of International Trade and Investment Law based in Macau and organized by the Institute of European Studies. This Institute aims to provide education and training at the highest international standard on the law of international trade and investment, the WTO, and select regional integration regimes such as the NAFTA, the EU, MERCOSUR and ASEAN. The course takes place two weeks in July and follows a model similar to the Academy of European Law in Florence and to the Academy of International Law in The Hague. Jürgen has also recently accepted an appointment and will teach in the Master of Laws program at the Universidade Católica in Portugal in 2010. Aside from research and teaching, Jürgen acts as a consultant to a variety of governmental (AusAID) and inter-governmental agencies on law reform and implementation of investment and trade treaty commitments in developing countries. Most recently, Jürgen was invited by UNCTAD and UNDP to advise on Vietnam's planned accession into the World Trade Organization.
Associate Professor Shaun McVeigh
Shaun McVeigh has research interests in the fields of jurisprudence, health care, and legal ethics. His current research projects centre around three themes associated with refreshing a jurisprudence of jurisdiction: the development of accounts of a ‘lawful’ South; the importance of a civil prudence to thinking about the conduct of law (and lawyers); and, the continuing need to take account of the colonial inheritance of Australia and Britain.
Associate Professor Andrew Mitchell
Dr Mitchell joined Melbourne Law School as a Senior Lecturer in 2006, having been a Senior Fellow since 2004. His major area of interest is international economic law, in particular the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He graduated from the University of Melbourne with First Class Honours in both his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce degrees. He subsequently obtained a Graduate Diploma in International Law from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His dissertation was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press as Legal Principles in WTO Disputes. Dr Mitchell was previously a solicitor with Allens Arthur Robinson in Australia and worked briefly at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He has also worked in the Trade Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Intellectual Property Division of the WTO, and the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Dr Mitchell has published in numerous journals and books on areas including WTO law, international law, international humanitarian law and constitutional law. In addition to his Melbourne teaching, Andrew has taught WTO law to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Bond University, Monash University, and the University of Western Ontario, and to Australian and overseas government officials at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the International Development Law Organization respectively. Andrew also consults for the private sector and international organisations. He has been engaged by Telstra for a research project on trade and telecommunications issues and by the World Health Organization to advise on issues concerning the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In 2007, following a nomination by the Australian government, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body added him to the indicative list of governmental and non-governmental panelists to hear WTO disputes. In 2008 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Law, London School of Economics and Scholar-in-Residence at the International Arbitration Group of WilmerHale in London.
Professor Dianne Otto Dr Dianne Otto is 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. Dianne was the inaugural Convenor of the University’s interdisciplinary Human Rights Forum in 2006. Her research interests include peace and security issues, the UN Security Council, international economic and social rights, 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. 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 is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws (Hon I) from the University of Queensland, a Master of Laws from New York University where she was a Fulbright scholar, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. 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. Jacqueline's established research interests are in the areas of environmental law (domestic and international), risk regulation and international trade law. She has published numerous articles on these topics in a number of prominent academic and international journals. Jacqueline's thesis (to be published by Cambridge University Press) focuses on the area of international risk regulation, examining the use (and abuse) of science in legal risk assessment processes, such as those undertaken by the dispute settlement bodies of the WTO in cases under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement. Jacqueline's expertise and scholarship in the field of law/science is also evident in her well-regarded book on the implementation of the precautionary principle (Federation Press, 2005). Another book on Environmental Law: Scientific, Policy and Regulatory Dimensions (co-authored with L Godden) is to be published in 2009 by Oxford University Press.
Associate Professor Peter Rush Peter Rush is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Jurisdiction, Prudence and the Transnational programme in the Institute for International Law and the Humanities. He has been a youth worker, an artist, a filmmaker and a scholar. He has taught in law faculties and criminology departments in Australia and in England. In 2004-2005, he was the Karl Lowenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College. He is the author of several books on criminal law and edited collections on jurisprudence, and on law and aesthetics. 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. He has been invited to present papers and lectures at institutions in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, such as Birkbeck College, Carleton University, and New York University. 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. His areas of expertise include international criminal law, legal theory and jurisdiction, the histories and doctrine of criminal law, sexual assault law and its reform, legal aesthetics, and legal formations of trauma.
Associate Professor Tania Voon
Tania undertook her Master of Laws at Harvard Law School (focusing on humanitarian intervention) and her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she was a WM Tapp Scholar and a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. Her book, Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization, was published by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge) in 2007. Before joining Melbourne Law School, Tania was a Legal Officer in the Appellate Body Secretariat of the WTO, and in 2007 she was nominated by Australia and approved by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body for inclusion on the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists. Tania has also worked with the Australian Government Solicitor, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, the UN Office of Legal Affairs, and the Environment Directorate of the OECD. Aside from international economic law, her research interests include the laws of war and cultural rights. Tania is a member of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law and a Fellow of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance.
Dr Margaret Young Dr Margaret Young is the William Charnley Research Fellow in Public International Law at Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD and an LLM (First class) from the University of Cambridge and a BA/LLB (First class Hons) from the University of Melbourne and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Her graduate studies were supported by a number of awards including the Gates Scholarship and the Commonwealth Scholarship. Dr Young is currently working on a book on 'Trade Related Aspects of Fisheries: Fragmentation and Regime Interaction in International Law'. She lectures in Cambridge's LLM course on WTO law and is the assistant editor of the British Year Book of International Law. A former associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, the Hon Michael Black AC, she has also practised as a solicitor with Freehills and has worked at the World Trade Organisation (Appellate Body), United Nations International Law Commission and at Greenpeace International. She will teach a range of international law and administrative law subjects at Melbourne. |
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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. |
