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Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Conference Speakers
Associate Professor Jim ALLAN
Faculty of Law, University of Otago, New Zealand
Bio:
James Allan is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Otago,
New Zealand. He writes mainly in the areas of legal and moral philosophy
and of constitutional law.
Professor Larissa BEHRENDT
Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies and Director, Jumbunna Indigenous
House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney
Bio:
Prof. Dr. Larissa Behrendt is Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies
at the University of Technology, Sydney and Director of the Jumbunna
Indigenous House of Learning. She graduated from the University of New
South Wales Law School in 1992 and has since graduated from Harvard
Law School with her Master of Laws and Doctorate. She is admitted to
the ACT Supreme Court as a Barrister-of-Law. She has worked as a practicing
lawyer in the areas of Aboriginal land claims and family law, has taught
at the University of New South Wales and Australian National University
Law Schools and has spent time working in Canada and at the United Nations
with First Nations organizations. She has published on property law,
indigenous rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women's issues.
Julie DEBELJAK
Associate Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
Bio:
Julie Debeljak is an Associate Director of the Castan Centre for Human
Rights Law, and a Lecturer in Law at Monash University. She teaches
and researches in domestic and international human rights law. She is
currently completing her PhD thesis on the impact that the domestic
legal protection of human rights has on the judiciary and for the separation
of powers (completion is scheduled for early 2002). Prior to commencing
her PhD, Julie completed her LLM at the University of Cambridge and
was an intern with the Indigenous Peoples Team at the United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has published
articles on the rights of indigenous peoples within the United Nations
system and on access to civil justice under human rights instruments.
She has recently completed a Fulbright American Studies Institute, in
which 18 international fellows completed a course on Reform in American
History and Law. She has also taught human rights in the Department
of Foreign Affairs & Trade training programme in 2001, as well as
to Indonesian trainees during a Castan Centre programme in 2001.
The Hon Elizabeth EVATT AC
Honorary Visiting Professor of Law, University of New South Wales
Bio:
Currently - Judge; World Bank Administrative Tribunal; Honorary Visiting
Professor, University of New South Wales Law School; Chair of Board
for Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Sydney. Formerly - Member of the
UN Human Rights Committee (monitoring body established under the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), Rapporteur, Vice-Chair. Commissioner
(part time) Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
President of the Australian Law Reform Commission. Deputy President
of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. Member and Chair
of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW). Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia.
Professor Keith EWING
School of Law, King's College London, UK
Bio:
LLB 1976, PhD 1980, Professor of Public Law 1989. Formerly lecturer
Edinburgh 1978-83, University Assistant Lecturer, University Lecturer,
Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1983-89. Visiting Fellow, University
of Melbourne and Monash University 1988, Visiting Professor Osgoode
Hall Law School 1982, University of Alberta 1987-88, University Western
Australia 1992. Special interests Constitutional Law, Labour Law and
Civil Liberties.
Professor Ewing is one of the United Kingdom's leading constitutional
law, labour law and civil liberties commentators. He is a prolific author
having written or edited more than twenty books and monographs, in addition
to numerous articles. He has held teaching positions and lectured all
over the world (including Canada, USA, USSR, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the
Netherlands, South Africa and Australia). He is a highly active and
frequent contributor to the work of many NGOs especially in the areas
of labour law and human rights. He also holds a number of senior public
appointments internationally (including Vice-President of the International
Centre for Trade Union Rights) and in the United Kingdom (including
Special Adviser to the Labour Party since 1998).
He is the inaugural holder of the Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting
Fellow to the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University.
Liz JACKSON
ABC Journalist
Bio:
Liz Jackson has been a Journalist at the ABC since 1986, and from 1994
has been a reporter at "Four Corners". She is a multi award-winning
journalist, and has won four Walkley Awards for her coverage of national
and international affairs and indigenous issues. She has twice won the
Human Rights Media Award for her Journalism. Before joining the ABC,
Liz Jackson worked as a community lawyer at Brixton Law Centre in London.
Sarah JOSEPH
Associate Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
Bio:
Sarah Joseph is an Associate Director of the Castan Centre for Human
Rights Law, and a Senior Lecturer in the Monash Law Faculty. She has
made a significant contribution to the study of international human
rights law, having written numerous articles and co-written one major
book (as well as co-editing another) in the area. She has written a
major article in the Netherlands International Law Review on the topic
of Multinational Corporations and Human Rights, and has been invited
to give conference papers on corporate human rights responsibility in
Australia and Europe. Over seven years, she has taught a number of human
rights law courses to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as
Australian and international government trainees.
Professor David KINLEY
Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University
Bio:
David Kinley is a Professor of Law and founding Director of the Castan
Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University. Previously he has
taught at the Australian National University, University of New South
Wales, University of Sydney, University of Tasmania and at Cambridge
University in the UK.
He is author/editor of four books, the latest of which has been recently
published, entitled "Commercial Law and Human Rights" (edited
with Stephen Bottomley).
He has designed and taught many courses on human rights to officials
from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand, China, Burma and Indonesia. Before
taking up his present position he worked for a number of years with
the Australian Law Reform Commission and the Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission as a specialist in international human rights
law.
Professor Martin KRYGIER
Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
Bio:
Martin Krygier is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.
His work is interdisciplinary and he publishes in a number of areas:
among them, comparative legal, political and social theory; politics,
law and society after communism; sociology of law; the history of political
and social thought. His undergraduate degrees are in politics, philosophy
and law, and his doctorate is in the history of ideas.
He delivered the 1997 Boyer lectures, Between Fear and Hope. Hybrid
Thoughts on Public Values. He has edited and co-edited a number of works,
including Community and Legality: the Intellectual Legacy of Philip
Selznick (forthcoming, US, 2001), The Rule of Law after Communism (UK,
1999), Marxism and Communism. Posthumous Reflections on Politics, Society,
and Law (Holland, USA, 1994), Bureaucracy: The Career of a Concept (UK,
USA, 1979), and he publishes extensively in academic journals and books.
His work has been translated into French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish,
Romanian and Spanish.
He has visited and lectured extensively in the United States, Britain,
and western and eastern Europe. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board
of East Central Europe - L'Europe du Centre Est. Eine wissenschaftliche
Zeitschrift, published jointly by the Collegium Budapest and the Central
European University.
Apart from academic publications, he also writes for journals of ideas
and public debate, in Australia, Poland, Hungary and the United States.
Professor Peter MUCHLINSKI
Faculty of Law, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Bio:
Peter Muchlinski is the Professor of Law and International Business
at Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury. He was the Drapers'
Professor of Law in the Law Department of Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, from 1998 to 2001. He specialises in international
and European business law, competition law, law and development and
commercial regulation, in which fields he has authored numerous papers
and articles. His more recent work concentrates on the social dimension
of the regulation of international business, with emphasis on human
rights and multinational enterprises, the subject matter of his most
recent article in volume 77 of International Affairs, the journal of
the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is the author of Multinational
Enterprises and the Law (Blackwell Publishers, 1995 revised paperback
edition 1999) and (with Julia Black and Paul Walker) editor of Commercial
Regulation and Judicial Review (Hart Publishing, 1998). In 1990 he qualified
as a barrister in the field of commercial and European law and is a
door tenant at Brick Court Chambers, London. He acts as a principal
adviser to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
on their major issues papers series concerning international investment
agreements. He has himself authored two papers in the series: Admission
and Establishment (UN, 1999) and National Treatment (UN, 1999). He is
also a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame London
Law Centre where he teaches in the field of multinational enterprises
and the law. He has been a Visiting Professor at the International Development
Law Institute, Rome, from 1997-9, and a Visiting Research Fellow at
the School of Law, University of Warwick in 1997-8. He is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts.
From 1979 to 1981 he taught international law at Christ's College,
Cambridge. From 1979 to 1980 he was a research officer at the British
Institute of Human Rights. From 1981 to 1983 he was a lecturer in law
at the University of Kent, where he taught in the fields of human rights
and international business transactions. From 1983 to 1996 he was a
lecturer, and from 1996 to 1998 a senior lecturer, in law at the London
School of Economics.
Dr Bronwyn NAYLOR
Faculty of Law, Monash University
Bio:
Dr Bronwyn Naylor is a Senior Lecturer in law at Monash University.
She practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and as a researcher at the
Victorian Law Reform Commission before joining the Monash Law Faculty.
She teaches Administrative Law and Criminal Law, and has recently been
awarded a PhD in criminology at Cambridge University. She has published
in the areas of criminal law and administrative law, criminology, and
law and gender, and is a member both of the Law Faculty's Castan Centre
for Human Rights Law, and the Faculty's Centre for the Study of Privatisation
and Public Accountability. Her current research interests include regulation
and privatisation, including accountability mechanisms, prisoners' rights,
and internal disciplinary processes in private and public prisons.
Dr Anne ORFORD
Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Bio:
Dr Anne Orford is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the University
of Melbourne. She researches in the areas of human rights, international
economic law, postcolonial theory and feminist legal theory. Her publications
in those areas include articles in the European Journal of International
Law, the Harvard International Law Journal and the Michigan Journal
of International Law. She has taught courses in international economic
law, international human rights law, and legal theory at the University
of Melbourne, the Australian National University and La Trobe University,
and has worked with a range of NGOs on issues of human rights and economic
justice. She is currently working on two books, one on humanitarian
intervention to be published by Cambridge University Press, and one
on the relationship between free trade, human rights and democracy to
be co-published by Federation Press and Zed Books.
Dianne OTTO
Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Bio:
Dianne Otto is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Melbourne.
She teaches human rights, international law and criminal law. Her research
and publications are primarily in the area of international human rights
law, focusing in particular on marginalised groups, especially women,
and economic and social rights. This work draws upon and develops a
range of critical legal theories particularly those influenced by feminism,
postcolonialism, poststructuralism and queer theory. Dianne has also
been active in a number of human rights NGOs including Amnesty International
Women's Rights Action Network Australia and the Women's Economic Equality
Project.
Professor Ivan SHEARER AM
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Bio:
Challis Professor of International Law, University of Sydney, since
1993. Member of the Human Rights Committee (United Nations) since 2001.
Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo.
Vice-President, International Law Association (Australian Branch). LL.B,
LL.M (Adelaide), SJD (Northwestern).
Stockton Professor of International Law, United States Naval War College,
Newport, Rhode Island, 2000-2001; Professor of Law, University of New
South Wales, 1975-1992; Dean, Faculty of Law, University of New South
Wales, 1984-87, 1988-90; Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Faculty
of Law, University of Adelaide, 1964-74.
Special Adviser, Legal Office, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
1991.
Member of Australian delegations to the UN Sixth Committee and Law of
the Sea PrepComs 1991-1996. Judge ad hoc, International Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea, Southern Bluefin Tuna cases, 1999. Member of the
Panel of Arbitrators, nominated by Australia, of the Permanent Court
of Arbitration, The Hague (since 1986). Member of the List of Arbitrators
nominated by Australia under article 2, Annex VII of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea (since 1999). Visiting Fellow, All
Souls College Oxford, 1978-79; visiting appointments at the University
of Cologne, the Max Planck Institute of Foreign Public and International
Law, Heidelberg, the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, the Naval
War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and the Australian National University.
Admitted as a Barrister in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria
and the High Court of Australia.
Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 1995.
Chris SIDOTI
Human Rights Consultant, Sydney
Bio:
Chris Sidoti is a long-time human rights activist in non-government
and official human rights organisations.
He is presently visiting professor at the School of Education and Professional
Studies at Griffith University, Queensland; visiting professor at the
School of Applied Social and Human Sciences at the University of Western
Sydney, New South Wales; senior fellow at the Asia Australia Institute
at the University of New South Wales; and professional associate at
the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, Victoria.
He is also National Spokesman for the Human Rights Council of Australia.
Chris was Australian Human Rights Commissioner from 14 August 1995
to 13 August 2000. One of his most significant projects while Human
Rights Commissioner was the National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education,
which took him to country schools and communities right across Australia
over an 18 month period in 1999-2000. That Inquiry led to a package
of recommendations to make high quality education accessible to all
children on the basis of equality.
His career has included being National Secretary of the Catholic Commission
for Justice and Peace, Manager of Executive Services in the NSW Department
of Youth and Community Services, Foundation Secretary of the Human Rights
and Equal Opportunity Commission and Commissioner with the Australian
Law Reform Commission.
He has also acted as Race Discrimination Commissioner (1991) and Disability
Discrimination Commissioner (1997-99) within the Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission.
Chris has held many senior honorary positions in non-government organisations,
including Deputy President of the Australian Council of Social Service,
President of the Youth Affairs Council of Australia and Chairperson
of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and of the Uniya Jesuit Social
Research Institute.
He has continued his long association with community organisations
and is presently a member of the board of the CREATE Foundation (formerly
the Australian Association of Young People in Care), of the advisory
council of the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect and Mercy Works. He is also a member of the board of the
International Bureau for Children's Rights based in Canada.
Associate Professor Maila STIVENS
Director, Women's Studies, Department of History, University of Melbourne
Bio:
Maila Stivens has lectured at University College London and is now
Director of Women's Studies here at Melbourne (to be Gender Studies
from next year). She has carried out research in Malaysia for many years,
first in rural Negeri Sembilan working on a project on gender and underdevelopment,
and more recently on projects on the new Malay middle classes and on
the Asian Family Last year she was a Fellow in Gender and Development
at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
(Her more recent main publications include Matriliny and Modernity:
Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia, and two co-edited
volumes Gender and Power in Affluent Asia and Human Rights and Gender
Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives.
Professor Mark TUSHNET
Law School, Georgetown University, USA
Bio:
Mark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law
at the Georgetown University Law Center. He received his undergraduate
degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1967. He received a J.D.
and M.A. in history from Yale University in 1971. He clerked for Judge
George Edwards and Justice Thurgood Marshall before beginning to teach
at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1973. In 1981 he moved
to the Georgetown University Law Center. He has been a visiting professor
at the University of Texas, University of Southern California, University
of Chicago and Columbia University law schools.
Professor Tushnet is the co-author of four casebooks, including the
most widely used casebook on constitutional law, Constitutional Law
(with Stone, Seidman and Sunstein). He has written nine books, including
a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall and edited
three others. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Humanities
Program, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has written numerous articles
on constitutional law and legal history.
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