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HDR student research in progress

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Master of Law (Research) (LLM (Research))
Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  • Lies, litigation and the law
  • The law and healthy ageing: Legal strategies for primary prevention, early intervention and remedy of elder abuse and neglect
  • The implications of the use of offender profiling in the criminal justice process
  • Open source software in collaborative projects
  • Out of Sight, Out of Right? : A Comparative Study of United States Offshore Processing of Refugees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Australia's Offshore Processing of Refugees in Nauru
  • A new way of thinking: the integration of psychological aspects in the dispute resolutions process used between banks and insolvent commercial borrowers
  • Legal regulation of electronic commerce
  • Protection of eonomic, social and cultural rights: A critical analysis of the fundamental principles of State policy of the Constitution of Bangladesh
  • Common good versus individual rights: anti-terrorism laws and human rights
  • Trafficking in women and children in Vietnam: reinforcing the legal system in criminalizing human trafficking
  • Reconceptualising the discursive framework of taxation policy in order to achieve distributive justice: an analysis of taxation policy in Australia through an examination of the introduction of a Goods and Services Tax
  • Mental health and theUN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • The Mabo Litigation: A Memoir
  • Public sector oversight bodies
  • Peace building in the South Pacific: a grassroots approach 
  • Human cryonic suspension
  • Directors' duties: is there a continued role for the fiduciary concept?
  • Non-executive Directors: is independence the answer?
  • Human rights obligations and climate change
  • Legal and regulatory protection against false and misleading promotion (advertising) of pharmaceutical products by internet pharmacy
  • Strengthening religious freedom through the protection of freedom from religion
  • A comparison of the legal status of 'customary adoptions' by indigenous people in New Zealand, Canada and Australia
  • State limits: the borders of the State of Victoria
  • Therapeutic jurisprudence and juridical conduct in Australia - conflict or congruence ?
  • Re-evaluation of Mare Liberum and common heritage of mankind concepts: developmental perspective on salvage and archaeological/historical objects found at sea
  • The interaction between dispute settlement under the WTO and free trade agreements
  • The 'ceased circumstances' cessation clause under article 1C(5) of the Refugees Convention
  • The operation of Mental Health Coursts in Australia and how the future expansionof Menal Health Courts to the intermediate and higher court level might best be achieved
  • Victoria's prison privatisation policy: an evaluation of cost, service delivery standards and accountability factors since 1992
  • Reconceptualising restrictions on reproductive freedom as torture
  • Good faith in international Commercial Law
  • A critical analysis of the extent to which the (Malaysian) Insurance Act 1996 serves to preserve the consumer interests of the insured in non-marine insurance contracts, in light of the growing demands of commercial efficiency: the need for legislative reform
  • Rethinking Mental Health Laws: Developing a model sentencing framework for mentally ill offenders
  • Australian legal models for corporate and individual liability for deaths and injuries at work
  • Advocates' immunity - a great divide in privileges accorded to legal professions around the world


Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

  • The work-family balance - how far do Malaysian Labour Laws and policies address family responsibilities at the workplace?
  • Statehood and sovereignty in international law: a post-colonial analysis of the Congo crisis, 1960
  • Laissez-faire to over kill: Employment of persons with convictions in the teaching profession in N.S.W. and Victoria from 1990-2007

Master of Laws (Research) (LLM (Research))

  • The legislative and judicial approach by India to the human trafficking of children for the commercial sexual exploitation of prostitution
  • Advancing the right to development  (RtD) as a legal basis for cancellation or reduction of foreign debts owed by poor countries

Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD)

  • Clean hands: immediacy, necessity, depravity
  • Beneficiaries' rights versus shareholders' rights in joint venture commercial entities
  • Conciliation and disability: Assessing capacity and adapting processes to promote participation of people with cognitive impairments in statutory conciliation
  • Towards a brigher future: reforming the restraint of trade doctrine in Australia  
  • The Dispute Settlement Centre of Victoria: delving into client satisfaction
  • Towards the Abolition of the Doctrine of Extended Common Purpose
  • The treatment of children who commit serious crime
  • The prosecution of criminal cartels in Australia
  • Child protection law: protecting children's rights?
  • From Milosevic to Guantanamo Bay, an examination of the construction of the due process norm in the enforcement of International Humanitarian Law
  • Regulation and review of the fixing of remuneration for voluntary administrators under Part 5.3A of the Corporations Act 2001
  • Improving patient participation in decision making pursuant to mental health legislation in Victoria, Australia
  • Extra Territorial Application of Directors' Duties
  • The right to safe health care - an analysis of the potential impact of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities
  • Section 46 of the TPA (Misuse of Marketing Power)
  • The constitutionalisation of jurisdictional error
  • Effective entrenchment of human rights in the Victorian Constitution
  • Anti-Money Laundering Law