IILAH Members
Ms Alison Duxbury
Senior Lecturer, 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.
Associate Professor Lee Godden
Melbourne Law School
Lee Godden works in areas at the intersection of law and the humanities related to native title, indigenous rights and the environmental law. An exploration of the relationship between law and history in the context of native title law formed a theoretical foundation for much of her early work. A similar interdisciplinary focus has informed other aspects of her scholarship in property theory and environmental regulation and governance. One 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 indigenous rights and a discussion of regulatory theory as it impacts on water law.
Dr Andrew D. Mitchell
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
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 is being published 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 will take up a two month appointment as the Scholar-in-Residence at the International Arbitration Group of WilmerHale in London.
Mr Bruce Oswald
Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Acting Director, Asia Pacific Centre of Military Law
Bruce “Ozzie” Oswald has served in the Regular Australian Army as a legal officer.
He has seen operational service in Rwanda, the Former Yugoslavia, East Timor and Iraq. He has provided legal advice and held staff appointments as a legal officer at tactical, operational and strategic levels. During his service in Australia he provided legal advice to the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, Headquarters Australian Theatre, Strategic Command and the Directorate of Operations and International Law. For his service as the Legal Officer for the Australian Service Contingent serving in Rwanda, Ozzie was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC). In 1997 Ozzie worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross as a Delegate to the Armed and Security Forces in the Former Yugoslavia.
Mr Joo-Cheong Tham
Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Joo-Cheong Tham is a Senior Lecturer at the Law Faculty 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. He is currently a British Academy Visiting Fellow at King's College, University of London and is undertaking 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 in 2009. 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.
Dr Tania Voon
Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
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.
Associate Professor Kristen Walker
Melbourne Law School
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.