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)

The Australian Human Rights Framework: how effectively can it protect human rights in Australia?

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

2012

Book

S.Kneebone & J. Debeljak, ‘Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion' (Routledge, April 2012).

Journal Article

M. Castan & J. Debeljak, ‘Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights and the Victorian Charter: a Framework for Reorienting Recordkeeping and Archival Practice' (2012) 12(2) Archival Science 213-234

2011

Journal Article

J Debeljak, 'Who is sovereign now? The Momcilovic Court hands back power over human rights that Parliament intended it to have', (2011) 22(1) Public Law Review 15-51.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011