Student Research Projects
- Doctor of Juridical Studies (SJD)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Master of Laws (LLM) by Research
- Master of Criminology (MCrim) by Research
Doctor of Juridical Studies (SJD)
|
Student |
Thesis title |
Supervisor/s |
|---|---|---|
|
Rizal Abdul Kadir |
Stability of Maritime Boundaries in Disputed Maritime Zones | Stephens, T & Lyster, R |
|
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|
Fleur Beaupert |
Australian Mental Health Tribunals: A New Cultural Imperative |
Carney, T |
| 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 |
|
Louise Boon-Kuo |
Migration Policing in Australia and Beyond |
Findlay, M & O'Malley, P |
|
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 Countrie | 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 | Lyster, R & Stephens, T |
|
Jesse Cunningham |
Punishment as Acratic Action |
Ziegert, A & Walton, K |
| Nuncio D'Angelo | The trust: from guardian to risk-taker. How the changing role of the trust demands a better legal framework for managing stakeholders' risks and rights in insolvency | 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 |
|
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 Assisted Suicide on Patient Autonomy |
Magnusson, R & Stewart, C |
|
Daniel Ghezelbash |
Mexican waves or copy-cat law making? Comparing law and policy responses to immigration control |
Crock, M |
|
Stefan Gruber |
Protecting China's Cultural Heritage: A Legal and Policy Approach |
Boer, B |
|
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 Commodfication 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 a Socio-political Interpretation of Adaptive Management |
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 |
| Jingyuan Meng | Analysis of Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples in a Life Cycle Model | Apps, P |
| 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 |
| Katherine Owens | The Water Market Oasis | Lyster, R & Shearing, S |
| Amanda Porter | Aboriginal Night Patrols | 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 |
|
Nicola Ross |
The Hidden Child: Revealing How Lawyers See Children in Child Legal Representation |
Parkinson, P & Cashmore, J |
|
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 |
|
Elen Seymour |
A Review of Taxation of Charities |
Cooper, G & Black, C |
|
Li-Shen Janice Sim |
Parents Killing Children: Crossing the Invisible Line |
Findlay, M |
|
Anu Singh |
Offending Women - Toward a Greater Understanding of Female Criminality |
Stubbs, J & 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 |
| Madelenine Claire Suttie | Parliamentary Ethics Committees and Legislative Development | 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 |
|
Janice Toner |
Legislating for Biodiversity Conservation: Is it State Theft? |
Lyster, R |
| Lesley Townsley | Unchain My Heart: The Role of Emotion in Legal Ethical Decision Making | Mason, G Walton, K |
|
Ashley Tsacalos |
An analysis of 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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
| Joanna Elizabeth Fear | Contempt of Parliament - Is there a Role for the Courts? | Twomey, A & Irving, H |
|
Paul Govind |
Developing countries, Differentiated Responsibilities and Justice in the International 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 |
|
Tanya Mitchell |
Rough Justice in the Summary Jurisdiction? The Rights of the Accused in the Summary Jurisdiction |
Findlay, M & Loughnan, A |
| Frank Redeke | The Internal Liability of Executive Directors in Public Companies: A Comparison Between German and Australian Law | Hill, J |
|
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 |
| Michael Young | Uncovering a covered Bond Market in Australia | Tolhurst, G & Stumbles, J |
Master of Criminology (MCrim) by Research
| Student | Thesis title | Supervisor/s |
|---|---|---|
|
Carolyn McKay |
The Principle of Orality and the Posthuman Courtroom | Mason, G |
|
Finoa Mary Tait |
Evaluation of the Victim Impact Statement Processes in NSW with regard to the Therapeutic Consequences for Victims of Crime | Shackel, R |





