IILAH Members
Associate Professor Alison Duxbury
Melbourne Law School
Alison Duxbury’s main areas of research are international institutional law, human rights law and international humanitarian law. She is currently undertaking research on the role of human rights and democracy in determining states' participation in international organisations. Alison is a member of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee (Victorian Division), the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative based in Delhi. She is currently Convenor of the University's Human Rights Forum.
Dr Ann Genovese
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Melbourne Law School
Ann Genovese joined the Faculty of Law in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer. Ann completed her Arts and Law degrees at the University of Adelaide, and her PhD, in History, at the University of Technology, Sydney, for which she won the inaugural Chancellors Award for excellence. Her research interests have consistently been directed to understanding the theoretical and methodological relationship between law and history, and its impacts upon Australian law reform and justice. Prior to joining the Faculty, Ann worked inside and outside the Academy. She was a Senior Researcher at the Justice Research Centre in Sydney, working on public policy issues in relation to unrepresented litigants, and Legal Aid funding, in the family law jurisdiction. She has also taught Australian Legal History and Jurisprudence, in the Faculty of Law at UTS; developed the subject Australian Political and Legal Systems for the first Masters in Indigenous Social Policy (also at UTS), and has taught various politics and theory subjects in the Humanities, at UTS and at UNSW. Her most recent research has been a collaborative ARC project with Professor Ann Curthoys (Manning Clark Chair of Australian History at ANU) and Associate Professor Alexander Reilly, (Law, University of Adelaide). The research has produced a book, Rights and Redemption: law, history, indigenous peoples (UNSW Press, forthcoming, 2008), which examines the role of history in key Indigenous rights cases which occurred during the era of the Howard government, and investigates how the courts have made use of historians as expert witnesses, as well as how the colonial past has been framed and understood by the courts. Ann is currently on leave, undertaking an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, examining the interrelationships between shifts in liberal discourse and feminist legal reform in Australai's recent past, through the vehicle of family law.
Professor Lee Godden
Melbourne Law School
Professor Lee Godden holds a research and teaching position within the Melbourne Law School. As well as her involvement with IILAH, she is the Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law. Accordingly much of her scholarship occurs in areas at the intersection of law and the humanities related to environmental law, indigenous rights and natural resource management. An exploration of the relationship between law and history in the context of native title law formed a theoretical foundation for much early research. A similar interdisciplinary focus has informed other aspects of her scholarship in property theory and environmental regulation and governance. A further theme pursued in her work is the inter-relations between law, violence and bodily disciplining. Current projects include an application of post-colonial theory to property law and a discussion of regulatory theory as it impacts on water law.
Kevin Jon Heller
Melbourne Law School
Kevin Jon Heller is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law, where he teaches International Criminal Law in the LLB and LLM programs and Law & Society. He will teach core Criminal Law classes and elective subjects in related fields, including International Criminal Law, at Melbourne. He has a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School, an MA with honours from Duke University (Literature), and an MA and BA, both with honours, from the New School for Social Research (Sociology). He has been involved in the International Criminal Court’s negotiations over the crime of aggression and served as Human Rights Watch’s external legal advisor on the trial of Saddam Hussein (whose lawyers cited his academic work in their appeals). He has also consulted with a number of defendants, most recently Radovan Karadzic, at the ICTY and ICTR. He is currently writing a book entitled The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
Dr Wendy Larcombe
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Mr Bruce Oswald
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Ossie’s research interests are in the areas of international humanitarian law, peace operations law, international peace and security law, military law, and international criminal law. Ossie teaches a range of undergraduate and post-graduate subjects in the Law School. Some of the subjects he teaches are Principles of International Law, International Dispute Settlement Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Peace and Security Law, Institutions in International Law and UN Law and Practice. Ossie has served in the Australian Army as a legal officer and has seen active service overseas as a member of the Australian Defence Force.
Professor Gerry Simpson
Melbourne Law School
Gerry Simpson is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics, and holds a Chair in Law at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) (awarded the American Society of International Law's annual prize for Pre-eminent Contribution to Creative Legal Scholarship) and is co-editor of The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches (1997). His latest book is Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law, (Polity, 2007). In 2006-2007 Gerry engaged in human rights training with the UK Foreign Office and the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Centre. In 2008, he was appointed Director of Studies for The Hague Academy and in 2009 he will give the Global Leaders Lecture at the University of Santa Clara.
Dr Joo-Cheong Tham
Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Joo-Cheong Tham is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School and has taught at the law schools of Victoria University and La Trobe University. His research focuses on the regulation of non-standard work, anti-terrorism laws and political finance law. He has published over 25 book chapters and refereed articles. His research has also been published in print and online media with Joo-Cheong having written more than 30 opinion pieces. He has also given evidence to parliamentary inquiries into terrorism laws and political finance law. In 2007-2008, he was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at King's College, University of London and undertook a comparative study of control orders in Australia and the United Kingdom in relation to the protection of human rights. He is also writing a book on Australian political finance law that will be published by UNSW Press. Joo-Cheong graduated with a LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne in 1998 and completed an LLM in 2003 with the same university. He was granted a doctorate of laws by the University of Melbourne on the basis of his thesis that examined the legal precariousness of casual employment.
Mr John Tobin
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
John Tobin has a combined commerce/law degree with honours from the University of Melbourne and an LLM with distinction from the University of London specialising in human rights law. Since 2001 he has worked in the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne where he is a Senior Lecturer and has designed and taught several subjects including Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy, International Human Rights Law, International Law, and International Law and Children's Rights. He also co-supervises the Graduate International Legal Internship. John has been a Visiting Professor at the American Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University and in 2006 was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, in the Law School at New York University. John has published numerous reports and articles on human rights and provided human rights training and advice as a consultant and on a pro bono basis on numerous occasions to organisations such as UNICEF, the Victorian Law Reform Commissions, the Equal Opportunity Commission, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, NGOs, statutory bodies, Government Departments and community groups. He is a Director of Childwise, a leading NGO which campaigns against the sexual exploitation of children in the Asia Pacific, an Advisory Board member of the Melbourne Journal of International Law, an Advisory Committee member and occasional chair of the Human Rights Legal Resource Centre and a member of the Steering Committee for the Human Rights Forum, an interdisciplinary committee at the University of Melbourne. He has also worked in numerous capacities as a solicitor including as a commercial lawyer, legal aid lawyer and legal officer with the Department of Justice.
Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Amanda Whiting joined the Faculty of Law at The University of Melbourne as a Lecturer in 2004. She has been a member of the Asian Law Centre since 1999. She has taught in the LLB courses Land, Race and Law in Southeast Asia, Law and Society in Southeast Asia, Law and Civil Society in Asia, History and Philosophy of Law, Property and Principles of Public Law; and in the Graduate subjects Islamic Law and Politics in Asia and Citizens, Groups and States in Asia. Her research is in the area of human rights institutions and practices in the Asia-Pacific Region, gender and religion, and Malaysian legal history. She is Associate Director (Malaysia) of the Asian Law Centre. Amanda completed her honours degree in Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1981 and then taught seventeenth and eighteenth century history at the University's History Department over the next decade. She also has a Diploma of Education (1988) and a Graduate Diploma of Indonesian (1995) which was partly undertaken at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Indonesia. She completed her LL.B. with First Class Honours in 2001. In 2007 she completed her doctorate - a feminist analysis of mid-seventeenth century English legal and political history. In 2004 her article "'Some Women can Shift it Well Enough': A Legal Context for Understanding the Women Petitioners of the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution" appeared in 21 Australian Feminist Law Journal 77.