Dr Julie Debeljak

Research Interests

Administrative Law and Regulation
Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
Courts
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Human Rights
International Development Law
International Human Rights Law
International Law
Judiciary
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Rights of Migrant Contract Workers
Womens' Rights

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

One LLB honour thesis

Doctoral:

A human rights perspective on detention in Australia - current deficiencies and ways forward (co-supervisor: Bronwyn Naylor)

'What impact can the Victorian Charter have on the safety of health care in Victorian hospitals?'

Grants and Commissions

2009 - 2011: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, 'Applying Human Rights Legislation in Closed Environments: A Strategic Framework for Managing Compliance' with Fellow Chief Investigators - Prof Freiberg, Dr Naylor, Dr Dussuyer, Dr Thomas. Collaborating organisations - Ombudsman Victoria, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Office of Public Advocate, Office of Inspector of Custodial Services (WA), Office of Police Integrity (2008-12). The grant is worth $587,803 ($323,803 in cash and $264,00 in kind).

2009: Attorney-General Department's Grants to Australian Organisations Program 2009-10 - awarded a grant to run a workshop entitled 'Legal and Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Obstacles, Opportunities and Best Practice' November 2009

2006-2009: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, entitled 'Australia's Response to Trafficking in Women: A Model for the Regulation of Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region?'. Fellow Chief Investigators Professor Bernadette McSherry and Professor Susan Kneebone. Collaborating organisations: Cardmo ACIL Ltd, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Office, Australian Human Rights Commission, World Vision. Grant: $314,000 ($210,000 cash and $104,000 in-kind).

2005: Don Chipp Foundation Small Grant to pursue research project entitled 'Bills of Rights in the Age of Terror', with Professor Sarah Joseph, Dr Patrick Emerton and Abraham Ibrahim.

1999-2001: Doctoral Research Scholarship. Strategic Partnership with Industry - Research and Training (SPIRT) Grant (comprising an Australian Research Council Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) (APAI) and stipend from the industry partner, the Judicial Conference of Australia)

Publications

2010

A selection of other publications by Dr Debeljak is available on line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=865908

Kneebone, S. and Debeljak, J. ‘Combating transnational crime in the Greater Mekong Subregion: the cases of Laos and Cambodia’ in Trafficking and Human Rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2010), 133-152.

Debeljak, J. Submission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010,

Debeljak, J. Submission to the Tasmanian Government Inquiry by the Department of Justice Consultation on a Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities for Tasmania

Castan, M. and Debeljak, J. ‘The human rights impact of the Victorian Charter for indigenous peoples' record-keeping and archiving?’, Towards an Understanding of the Archival and Recordkeeping Implications of Australian and International Human Rights for Indigenous Australians, 12 October 2010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1-14.

Debeljak, J and McBeth, A, Hansard, Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Human Rights (Parliamentary Security) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010; Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010, Hansard, Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 10-17, 4/11/2010.

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2010