Student Research Projects

Doctor of Juridical Studies (SJD)

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Rizal Abdul Kadir

Stability of Maritime Boundaries in Disputed Maritime Zones Stephens, T & Riley, J

Raymond Max Brazil

The Evolution of the Duties, Powers and Responsibilities of the NSW Coroner. Human Rights in the Coroner's Court Savell, K & Cashman, P

Catherine Chang

Trafficking of children in Asia Pacific region: Is it a problem in Australia and is Australia complicit in the region's problem

Crock, M

Nicholas Chen

Revisiting Notions of Discretionary Justice: Finding the way forward for procedural fairness in Australia

Crock, M & Allars, M

Alexandra Fowler The Right to Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflicts: Theory and Practice Triggs, G & Saul, B 
Andrew Stuart Murray Expert Evidence and the Problem of Privilege Peden, E & Cashman, P

Sanchana Ranjan 

The Regulation of Labour Standards in and through International Trade - A Focus on the Impact of the Free Trade Agreements and Social Clauses 

Kinley, D  & Riley, J

Julie Anne Zetler

E-health: The Legal and Ethical Implications of Computerised Patient Records on Confidentiality and Privacy for Patients with Health Disabilities

Bennett, B

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Ross Abbs Criminal Justice in the High Court Loughnan, A & Crofts, T 
Philip George Adey The law on negligently occasioned pure psychiatric harm in Australia following the landmark Annetts decision and the contemporaneous civil liability Acts Bennett, B
Jude Amos The Taxation of Foreign Direct Investment in a Globalising World: The Sub-Saharan African Position Vann, R & Cooper, G
Pamela Angus-Leppan The Financial Abuse of the Property of Elderly People Carney, T

Fady Aoun

Look Not Lest Ye Be Offended - Jesus JuiceTM, Redskins®, and Black Tail®: An Analysis of the Law relating to Offensive and Scandalous Trade Marks

Loughlan, P & Rolph, D

Elisa Arcioni

'The people' in the Australian Constitution

Irving, H

Elena de Lemos Pinto Aydos 

Carbon Tax and Emissions Trading Scheme: Assessing Concerns with Carbon Leakage and International Competitiveness in Australia and New Zealand 

Lyster, R & Black, C

Richard Bailey

Strategy, Rupture, Rights: Life, Law and Resistance in Australian Immigration Detention

Johns, F

Luke Beck Section 116 of the Constitution  Irving, H & Twomey, A
Julie Beesley Organised Chaos: Organised Crime Through a Chaotic Lens Lee, M & Findlay, M 
Felicity Bell Independent Children's Lawyers Inside and Outside the Family Courts Cashmore, J & Parkinson, P
Laurie Berg Crossing Borders: Temporary Migrant Workers and the Limits of Human Rights Crock, M & McCallum, R
Nicola Bodor   Equitable Compensation - A Model for its Assessment? McDonald, B & Glister, J 

Tony Bogdanoski 

Mobilising Health Rights Along the Life Cycle: Difference, Personhood, Corporeality 

Stewart, C & Savell, K

Mark Levinge Brabazon

Principles of International Trust Taxation  

Burns, L & Vann, R
Louise Cauchi Cosmetic Surgery and the Law of Negligence: An infectious passion for beauty?  Bennett, B & Stewart, C
Garner Clancey What is Crime Prevention? A Place-based Analysis  Lee, M & O'Malley, P
Rebecca Connolly  The Fragmentation of International Law has Given Rise to a Conflict  of Jurisdiction for Trade Disputes Involving Agricultural Biotechnology Products - Impact on Developing Countries Lyster, R & Triggs, G 
Penelope Crossley  The Role of Law in the Development of the Renewable Energy Sector - A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of the Regulatory Support Mechanisms Offered to Participants in the Renewable Energy Sector in Australia, China and United Kingdom  Triggs, G & Stephens, T

Jesse Cunningham

Punishment as Acratic Action

Ziegert, A & Walton, K

Nuncio D'Angelo  The trust: from guardian to entrepreneur. Why the changing role of the trust demands a better legal framework for allocating stakeholder risks McCracken, S & Riley, J 

Robert Davis

The Law and Econom(etr)ics of Corruption

Hill, J & Findlay, M

Mark De Silva

International Conflict related Environmental Claims - A Critical Analysis of the UN Compensation Commission Experience

Boer, B, Johns, F & Stephens, T

Michelle de Souza

Pre-implantation Genetic Testing: A Comparative Analysis of the Regulatory Systems of Three Countries Stewart, C

Nicole Dicker

The Complementarity of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Development Programming: A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Transitional Justice Processes and Development Programming in Post Conflict Countries 

Saul, B & Kinley, D

Alexandra Evans

Is Present Entitlement an Appropriate Factor for Determining whether a Trustee or Beneficiary Bears Tax on Trust Income under Division 6 of Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth)?

Burns, L

Katherine Fallah

Making War and Making Law: The Relationship between International Law and Industry-Led Initiatives to Regulate the Private Military Industry

Triggs, G & Saul, B

Rebecca Faugno

Remedying Remedies: Towards the Clarification and Development of Judicial Remedies for Corporate Human Rights Violations

Kinley, D, Carney, T & Fridman, S

Martin Fisher  How Criminal and Civil Property Forfeiture Legislation, the "War on Drugs", and the Australian Crime Commission have altered the Balance between the State and the Defendant in Administrative Criminal Law in Australia, and what this tells us of the Present State of Politics and Society  Findlay, M & Loughnan, A 
Pota Forrest-Lawrence The Media's Representation of Methamphetamines and its influence on Australian Illicit Drug Policies, and regulations Mason, G & Lee, M 

Katrina George

Autonomy at the Death Bed: The Impact of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide on Patient Autonomy

Magnusson, R & Stewart, C

Daniel Ghezelbash

Mexican waves or copy-cat law making? The transfer of migration law and policy between states

Crock, M

Md Mostafa Haider

Deconstructing the Agency and Institution of the Poor: Extreme Poverty in Bangladesh from a Global Perspective Johns, F & Saul, B

Nafis Muhamad Hanif

Re-Imagining Asian Organised Crime Findlay, M & O'Malley, P
Monica Hayes  Improving Gender Equality at Work: Can Legislation Intended to Encourage and Promote Structural Change in Organisations Succeed in Promoting Gender Equality? Smith, B & Riley, J 

Juan He

Judging the Adequacy of WTO Rules to Accommodate Members' Need of Developing Infant Industries: Fairness and Practicality for Developing Countries

Triggs, G & Brown, C

Justin Adrian Hogan Doran Private International Law Jurisdiction in Cyberspace Triggs, G

Nana Rebecca Howard

The Commodification of Human Beings

Bennett, B & Kinley, D

Sunita Jogarajan

Tax and Trade Treaty History Vann, R & Burns, L

Keith Jones

Uncovering Complexity Management Patterns: The Case of Politics Law & Science

Ziegert, A

Keith Kendall

A Tax Adviser's Privilege for Australia

McCallum, R

Richard Kocsis

An Empirical Examination of Crime Scene Behaviours and Offender Characteristics in Kidnapping for Ransom Crime

Mason, G

Stefan Lo

In Search of Corporate Accountability: Liabilities of Corporate Participants

Hill, J

Carlos Lopez

Managing Complex Law Reform: Applying a Best Practice Framework to Western Australia's Public Health Law Reform Efforts and Better Serving Australia's Indigenous Peoples 

Magnusson, R

Lin Lu

Film Censorship Law: A Comparative Study

Rolph, D

Caroline Lumby  Cruising Women: The Death of Dianne Brimble and the Problem of Individual Responsibility Mason, G & Walton, K 

Andrew Martin

Water Governance in New South Wales: The Role of Adaptive Governance

Lyster, R & Franklin, N

Allan McCay

Behavioural Genetics, Free Will and Retributive Desert in Sentencing

Findlay, M

Nicola McGuire The Quest for Legitimization of Corporate Charitable Donations in a Capitalist Society. Encouraging Corporate Kindness: Are we balancing the social books or just cooking them? Hill, J & Riley, J
Carolyn McKay The Principle of Orality and the Posthuman Courtroom  Mason, G & Gibson, R
Jingyuan Meng  Analysis of Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples in a Life Cycle Model  Apps, P 
Tanya Mitchell Rough Justice in the Counter-World? Procedural Protections of the Accused in the Summary Jurisdiction Findlay, M & Loughnan, A
Marie Nagy Implications of Brain Research for Criminal Law Hamer, D & Findlay, M 
Nasreen Miza Hilmy Nasrijal The Problems and Challenges in the Enforcement of Child Maintenance Orders Parkinson, P & Farrar, S

Thi Thanh Hai Nguyen

Corporate Social Responsibility for Human Rights in Vietnam Kinley, D & Saul, B

Michael Christoph O'Connor

Medical Complicity with Torture Johns, F, Shearer, I & Carney, T
Tashina Orchiston (Ser)Vice Work: Commercial Sex and Labour Regulation  McCrystal, S & Crofts, T
Katherine Owens  The Water Market Oasis? Lyster, R & Shearing, S 
Amanda Porter  Aboriginal Night Patrols, Streetbeats and Alternative Policing  O'Malley, P
Belinda Helen Reeve  The Role of Responsive Regulation in Chronic Disease Prevention: Regulating Alcohol, Food and Tobacco Advertising Magnusson, R
Catherine Renshaw The Socialization of States and the New ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Kinley, D, Mowbray, J & Saul, B 

Lorraine Rivlin

Carer's Discrimination Complaints in NSW under the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977: An assessment of complaints made

Smith, B

Hannah Robert

The Cuckold's Cause - What do "paternity fraud" disputes tell us about legal constructions of parentage in the age of DNA testing?

Graycar, R

Philippa Ryan

A New Classification for Accessory Liability

McDonald, B

Caroline Saint Legal and Ethical Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: Issues of Resource Allocation and how Social Disruption might be limited Bennett, B & Carney, T
Amanda Sapienza Non-Perogative Executive Power: Limitations and Judicial Review  Allars, M & Twomey, A

Elen Seymour

A Review of Taxation of Charities

Cooper, G & Black, C

Anu Singh

Offending Women: Toward a Greater Understanding of Female Criminality in Australia

Mason, G

Linda Roslyn Steele

The Dangerous Individual: A Critique of the Diversion of the People Identified as Having Intellectual Disability or Acquired Brain Injury from the NSW Local Courts Savell, K, Findlay, M & Loughnan, A
Madeleine Claire Suttie A Critical Analysis of Gutmann and Thompson's Model of Deliberative Democracy as Applied to Public Advisory Committees Considering New Biotechnologies Savell, K

Christopher Taylor

The Development of Australian Double Taxation Treaty Policy and Practice and the Future of Bi-Lateral Double Taxation Treaties

Vann, R & Burns, L

Shih-Ning Then  Regenerative Tissue Transplantation from Children: Legal Protection, Medical Ethics and Practice  Carney, T & Bennett, B 

George Tomossy

Protecting Human Subjects in the Global Research Enterprise

Carney, T & Stewart, C

Lesley Townsley  Unchain My Heart: The Role of Emotion in Legal Ethical Decision Making  Mason, G Walton, K

Ashley Tsacalos

Effective Appellate Advocacy: The Ideal and the Reality - Explored through the Advocacy of Sir Garfield Barwick in Constitutional Law Cases

Irving, H & Twomey, A

Lee Walker 

Omar Al-Bashir's Immunities in the ICC, US Attitudes to the Court, and the Verticalisation of International Criminal Law 

Saul, B & Brown, C 

Alexis Wallace 

The Identity Dilemma

Crock, M 

Helen Warner

Australia's Binding Public Rulings System for Income Tax and GST Matters

Dirkis, M & Millar, R

James Watson

The Equitable Remedy of Account

Peden, E

Sonya Willis

Case Management is a Requirement of Procedural Fairness in Complex Commercial Litigation

Allars, M & Cashman, P

Michael Young

Constructing Covered Bonds - A Legal Analysis 

Tolhurst, G & Stumbles, J

Weihuan Zhou

De Facto Discrimination under the Jurisprudence of the World Trade Organisation: The Search for Flexible and Predictable Interpretation under the Non-Discrimination Rules

Williams, B & Triggs, G

Master of Laws (LLM) by Research

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Martha Barnett The Pressures in Australia to The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: a new procedure? Parkinson, P & Shackel, R

Paul Govind

Least Developed Countries and Adaptation Funding: Satisfying Distributive Justice in the Climate Change Regime

Lyster, R & Stephens, T

Paul Hayes

Resolution of Sporting Disputes in Australia - A Uniform Sporting Code

Fridman, S

Yarran Hominh

How to do Things with Constitutions: A Performative Analysis of the US and Australian Constitutions

Irving, H & Walton, K

Miiko Kumar

Evidential Rules in Sexual Assault Trials 

Peden, E 

Mark MacDiarmid

The Concept of "Property" in the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)

Parkinson, P & Lane, P

Frank Redeke  The Internal Liability of Executive Directors in Public Companies: A Comparison Between German and Australian Law Hill, J 

Shannon Torrens

International criminal law and the prosecution of persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law: fulfilling aspirations towards the restoration and maintenance of peace and security, international justice and national reconciliation 

Findlay, M

Anna Walsh

The Legal Status of Pre Natal Life in Australia

Bennett, B & Graycar, R

Gregory Walsh

The Merits of the Pluralist Model in Guiding the Appropriate Operation of Anti-Discrimination

Parkinson, P & Smith, B

Christopher Woolard  Australian anti-discrimination law: an evaluation of the extent to which the legislative duties of the Australian Human Rights Commission and NSW Anti-Discrimination Board inform their activities and the extent to which these activities have reduced the incidence of discrimination in NSW  Smith, B & McCrystal, S 

Master of Criminology (MCrim) by Research

Student Thesis title Supervisor/s

Finoa Mary Tait

Evaluation of the Victim Impact Statement Processes in NSW with regard to the Therapeutic Consequences for Victims of Crime Shackel, R