People
- Centre Advisory Board
- Centre Management Committee
- Centre Director and Centre Administrator
- Centre Associates
- Centre Affiliates
- Centre Visitors
- Centre Interns
- Australian International Law Journal student editors
Centre Advisory Board
Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM, RFD, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Chair of the Advisory Board
Professor Philip Alston, New York University School of Law
Dr Rosalie Balkin, Legal Director, International Maritime Organization
Mr Bill Campbell QC, Office of International Law, Australian Attorney-General’s Department
Professor Christine Chinkin, Department of Law, London School of Economics
Professor James Crawford SC, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University
Dr Michael Fullilove, Director of Global Issues, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
HE Judge C Weeramantry, Former Judge of the International Court of Justice; Director, Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, Colombo
Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi, Senshu University Law School; former Chair of the WTO Appellate Body
Centre Management Committee
Ross Anderson, Senior Lecturer and expert in private international law and international criminal law.
Professor Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law and expert in international law and human rights law, especially migration, citizenship and refugee law.
Associate Professor Fleur Johns, Senior Lecturer and member of the New York bar with research interests in public international law, including the history and theory thereof.
Professor David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law and expert in human rights and corporate responsibility, the World Trade Organisation, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Dr Jacqueline Mowbray is a Senior Lecturer with a particular interest in international law and legal theory, with a focus on both international human rights law and international commercial issues.
Professor Luke Nottage, expert in comparative and transnational contract law, product liability, international arbitration and corporate governance especially in relation to Japan.
Professor Ben Saul, Senior Lecturer and barrister, specialises in public international law, especially terrorism, use of force, humanitarian law, human rights, refugees and the United Nations.
Associate Professor Tim Stephens, is a Senior Lecturer and expert in international dispute resolution, international courts and tribunals, international environmental law and the law of the sea.
Professor Gillian Triggs, Dean of Law, former Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, barrister, and expert in all areas of public international law.
Dr Brett Williams, Senior Lecturer and expert in international trade law and international regulations of trade especially the law of the World Trade Organisation.
Co-Directors
Associate Professor Fleur Johns
Email:fleur.johns@sydney.edu.au
Associate Professor Tim Stephens
Tel: (02) 9351 0205
Email:
Centre Administrator
Ms Amber Colhoun
Tel: (02) 9351 0460
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Centre Associates
Irene Baghoomians is a Lecturer and expert in international human rights law having experience in litigation of civil rights and human rights cases.
Professor Vivienne Bath is an expert in the Law of International Business Transactions and in Chinese Law.
Professor Belinda Bennett is expert in health law and globalisation, especially as it relates to biomedicine.
Emeritus Professor Ben Boer, formerly Professor in Environmental Law and expert in international environmental law, including sustainable development law, Asian Pacific environmental law and natural and cultural heritage law.
Associate Professor Chester Brown is an expert on international law and international dispute settlement.
Professor Lee Burns is a Professor in Taxation Law and specialises in international and comparative tax law, and is a consultant to the International Monetary Fund and various donor agencies on taxation reform in developing countries.
Dr Simon Butt is a Senior Lecturer and expert in Indonesian law, with research interests in comparative law.
Graeme Coss, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law has research interests in, inter alia, international human rights law and international criminal law.
Emily Crawford is a post-doctoral fellow at Sydney Law School and was previously at the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales. Emily’s current research project is looking at major developments in the conduct of armed conflicts in the 21st century, such as cyber warfare and targeted assassinations, and the implications for both domestic and international law.
Professor Andrew Dickinson, Professor in Private International Law divides his time between Australia and the UK, where he is a solicitor advocate, consultant to the law firm Clifford Chance LLP and a visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London.
Dr Charlotte Epstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and her interests include concepts in IR theory (in particular, articulations of sovereignty, the state and North-South Relations), critical security studies, feminist IR theories, global environmental politics and the international politics of energy, and the overlap between international trade and the environment.
Katherine Fallah lectures in international law and specialises in international humanitarian and criminal law. She is writing a doctoral thesis on the accountability of mercenaries and private military contractors under international law.
Dr Salim Farrar is a Senior Lecturer in public international law and criminal procedure, with a special interest in human rights, Islamic law and comparative criminal justice in Asia.
Professor Mark Findlay, Professor of Criminal Law and expert in comparative criminal justice, globalisation and crime and international criminal law.
Associate Professor Peter Gerangelos lectures in federal constitutional law, advanced constitutional law, litigation and federal jurisdiction. He also has extensive experience in a range of civil and public law litigation in the superior courts and the conduct of large civil prosecutions on behalf of the Commonwealth relating to revenue and commercial issues.
Professor Jennifer Hill is Professor of Corporate Law with research interests in international and comparative corporate governance, including in the United States and Europe.
Justin Hogan-Doran is a Barrister in private practice in Sydney. He lectures in public and private international law and coached the winning Jessup Mooting team in 2007. Justin is an Army Reserve Officer, attached to the ADF Military Law Centre.
Professor Helen Irving is Professor of Constitutional Law and expert in federal constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, and gender and constitution-making.
Miiko Kumar is a Barrister and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. Miiko teaches both compulsory and elective courses in Evidence and Procedure.
Professor Rosemary Lyster, expert in Asian Pacific environmental, international environmental law and international energy law, especially in relation to climate change.
Professor Roger Magnusson is an expert in health law and in public health law with, an interest in global health governance and in legal response to epidemics.
Professor Ron McCallum is Professor of Industrial Law and an expert in labour and employment law.
Dr Shae McCrystal is a Senior Lecturer with interests in labour and employment law, including international labour law.
Dr Kate Miles is a Senior Lecturer and expert in international environmental law and international trade and investment law.
Associate Professor Rebecca Millar is a Senior Lecturer with research interests in GST, comparative VAT, and the income tax concession for research and development. She is also involved in taxation reform in developing countries for a number of donor agencies.
John Pace lectures in international human rights law and has served as a senior United Nations human rights official in Geneva, Iraq and Lebanon, among others.
Dr Alison Pert lectures in public international law and has a special interest in the use of armed force and Australia’s compliance with its treaty commitments.
Dr James Renwick, SC is a former Fulbright Scholar, with a doctorate from Sydney University. He is a Senior Counsel at the NSW Bar, practising in the fields of both public and commercial law. He has appeared in over 20 matters in the High Court. He is a pioneer of the teaching and practice of national security law in Australia. He holds a commission in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve, and is the Acting head of the Sydney Naval Reserve Panel. He has most recently published articles on the topics of terrorism trials, the ANZUS Treaty, and dealing with radicalisation in Australia.
Associate Professor David Rolph is a Lecturer with research interests in private international law, especially multi-state torts.
Professor Anne Twomey has interests in public international law and comparative constitutional law, especially issues concerning federal systems of governance.
Associate Professor Alex Ziegert, expert in legal theory, notably the analysis of global law as a legal system.
Centre Affiliates
Dr Thalia Anthony is a Senior Lecturer at UTS with interests in indigenous people and the law (including indigenous rights in international law), criminology, comparative tort law, native title and legal history.
Dr Livingston Armytage is founding director of the Centre for Judicial Studies. He is a specialist in justice reform, advising governments, courts and development aid agencies around the world. He is adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, and course convener of: ‘Law Justice & Development.’ He is also a visiting fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge.
Dr Danielle Celermajer is Director of the Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation, Director of the Masters of Human Rights and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. Her research interests include international human rights law and institutions and their domestic appication, and mechanisms for dealing with violations in the past.
Robert Dubler SC is a senior Sydney barrister who completed his PhD in international law from the University of Sydney, with research interests in international criminal law.
Christine Ernst is a Judge's Associate at the High Court of Australia and was formerly a researcher at the Sydney Law School. Her research interests include public international law, human rights law, administrative law and constitutional law.
Jolyon Ford, Lecturer at the Australian National University and former Lecturer at Sydney Law School, with interests in public international law, constitutional law, and post-conflict studies.
Daniel Ghezelbash is doctoral student at the University of Sydney and a Research Associate on the International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) Database Project. His research interests include comparative migration law and policy, migration control and administrative law.
Robert Hill is an Adjunct Professor in Sustainability at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He has been a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 2006, and a former Minister for the Environment, Minister for the Environment and Heritage and Minister for Defence. From 2006 to 2009 he served as the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations. He was recently appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the Australian Carbon Trust.
Eric Knight is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and previously an Associate at Baker & McKenzie in the Environmental Markets team. His research interests include corporate governance, and international environmental law with a focus on climate change and energy.
Dr Peter Kwon, partner at Ashurst Hong Kong, and specialist in cross-border securitisation, derivatives, capital markets, and structured finance law. His research interests are in legal culture, cross-border negotiations, and the interaction between the two.
Associate Professor Jake Lynch is Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. He is a leader in the field of peace journalism, as an experienced international reporter and scholar.
Professor Jane McAdam from the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales previously taught at Sydney. Jane holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published widely in the areas of international human rights law and refugee law. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC and a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
Dr Hitoshi Nasu is a lecturer at the ANU College of Law and an Associate Director of The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). His thesis on the ‘Precautionary Approach to International Security Law: A Study of Article 40 of the UN Charter’ was completed in 2006.
Melissa Perry QC is a senior barrister practicing primarily in the federal sphere, specialising in public international law, constitutional law, administrative law, native title and environmental law.
Donald Robertson is Adjunct Professor of Law at Sydney Law School and a Partner of Freehills. He teaches and writes in the areas of international law, contract law and regulatory law. He currently teaches a Postgraduate Course on International Contract Law based on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. His practice encompasses all aspects of international economic law, with a particular focus on international investment law and arbitration and regulatory law, international contract law and maritime law. He is a Director of the Board of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contract Law. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Chris Sidoti is a human rights lawyer, activist and teacher who currently works from Sydney, Australia, as an international human rights consultant, specialising in the international human rights system and in national human rights institutions. He was director of the International Service for Human Rights, based in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2003 to 2007. He has been Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000), Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995) and Foundation Director of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1987-1992). He has also worked in non-government organisations, including for the Human Rights Council of Australia and the Australian Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. In 2007-08 he was the independent chair of the United Kingdom Government’s Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum He is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Griffith University (Queensland) and the Australian Catholic University, a Fellow of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University and an Affiliate at the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. He is also chair of the NSW Casino, Liquor and Gaming Control Authority, a quasi-judicial appointment.
Dr Martyn Taylor is a Partner at Gilbert + Tobin, practising in competition & regulation, telecommunications law and international economic law. He has specific interest in the development and application of public international law, international competition policy and international trade regulation.
Dr Sarah Williams lectures at UNSW and formerly worked in international law at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She is researching the establishment by the United Nations Security Council and Lebanon of a criminal tribunal to prosecute political violence in Lebanon.
Houda Younan is a barrister at Sixth Floor, her areas of practice include administrative law, commercial law, communications/media law, constitutional law, customs and anti-dumping; extradition, environmental and planning law, international law, migration law and mining law.
Centre Visitors
The Centre frequently hosts short and long term academic visitors from Australia and overseas.
Centre Interns
Anish Bhasin (S2, 2007)
Lily Tsen (S2, 2007)
Naomi Hart (S1, 2008)
Claire McEvilly (S1, 2008)
Ben Wahlhaus (Intensive, 2008)
Alicia Lyons (S2, 2008)
Danielle Mawer (S2, 2008)
Naomi Oreb (Intensive, 2009)
Sadhana Abayasekara (Intensive, 2009)
Natasha Kassam (S1, 2009)
Alice Yan (S1, 2009)
Sue Soueid (S1, 2009)
Tina Jelenic (S1, 2009)
Matthew Kalyk (S2, 2009)
Callista Harris (S2, 2009)
Samuel Thampapillai (Intensive, 2010)
Ramya Krishnan (S1, 2010)
David Lewis (S1, 2010)
Christopher Pearce (S1, 2010)
Emily Raftos (S1, 2010)
Emily Christie (S2, 2010)
Emma Hunt (S2, 2010)
Nithya Ramesh (S2, 2010)
Andrew Yeoum (S2, 2010)
Claire Burke (S1, 2011)
Steve Hind (S1, 2011)
Ishani Jayaweera (S1, 2011)
Daniel MacPherson (S1, 2011)
Kate Bones (S2, 2011)
Georgina Hutton (S2, 2011)
Bryce Williams (S2, 2011)
Jason Wong (S2, 2011)
Samantha Brown (S1, 2012)
Anna Gudkov (S1, 2012)
Diana Hu (S1, 20120
Nathan Li (S1, 2012)
Australian International Law Journal student editors
2010
Fayzan Bakhtiar
Martin Bernhaut
Melanie Brown
Jesse Buckingham
Jennifer Chen
Corey James Karaka
Nikila Kaushik
Greg Mikkelsen
Patrick Weller
Chadwick Wong
2009
Thomas Bagley
James Bowe
Fiona Cunningham
Brigid Dixon
Bryce Douglas-Baker
Misa Han
Yarran Homin
Alex Hunt
Sally-Anne Ivimey
Glenn Kembrey
Wesely Lalich
Warren Oakes
Myles Pulsford
William Radler
Clementine Rendle
May Samali
Vasudha Sathanapally
Chong Shao
James Stanton
Bobbie Wan
Jackelyn West
Joanne Yap
2008
Sadhana Abayasekara
Christopher Beshara
Annie Chiv
Monica Christopher
Adriana Edmeades
Paul Ferris
Jeff Gordon
Amy Knibbs
Patrick Lewis
Zhi Wen Liu
Philippa Macaskill
Andrew McLeod
Suzannah Morris
Grace Ng
Sebastian Weller
Annelise Young
2006 - 2008
Eleanor Browne
Susan Cirillo
Robynne Croft
Allegra Day
Don Do
Emma Dunlop (Coordinator, 2007-8)
Christine Ernst
Monique Foy
Martin Hill
Lorraine Hui
Sally Johnson
Grace Mang
Alexandra Meagher (Coordinator, 2006)
Emma Perera
Rachel Ranjan
Miroslav Sandev
Sue Soueid
Deniz Tas
Darko Vranesevic
Ken Xie
2005
Andrew Bilski
Shipra Chordia
Nicole Forster
Martin Hill
Sally Johnston (Coordinator)
Grace Mang
Alexandra Meagher
Emma Perera
Ben Wahlhaus