Dr Julie Debeljak

Publications

2008

'Balancing Rights in a Democracy: The Problems with Limitations and Overrides of Rights under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006' (2008) 32 Melbourne University Law Review 422-469

'Combating Transnational Crime in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region: The Cases of Lao PDR and Cambodia' in Holmes, L (ed), Trafficking and Forced Migration: Australian, European and Global Perspectives (Edward Elgar, 2008) (with Kneebone, S.) Forthcoming

2007

'Parliamentary Sovereignty and Dialogue under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: Drawing the Line between Judicial Interpretation and Judicial Law-Making' (2007) 33(1) Monash University Law Review  9-71

'Mission Impossible: "Possible" Interpretations under the Victorian Charter and their Impact on Parliamentary Sovereignty and Dialogue' in Smith, M.(ed)  Human Rights 2006: The Year in Review  (Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Melbourne, 2007)169-189
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'Charter Mechanisms', presentation at Introduction to Human Rights seminar, Judicial College of Victoria, Melbourne, 19 February 2007

'Human Rights Responsibilities of Public Authorities Under the Charter of Rights ', paper presented at the Charter of Rights Conference, Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 18 May 2007

'Victorian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities', paper presented at Using Human Rights in Domestic Law and Advocacy, Human Rights Legal Resources Centre, Melbourne, 14 June 2007

'Regional Responses to Global Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region: The cases of Laos PDR and Cambodia' (with Kneebone, S.), paper presented at Restoring the Rule of Law in International Affairs: the 15th Annual Australian New Zealand Society of Internaional Law (ANZSIL) Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, 28-30 June 2007

'The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006: Exploring the Interpretive Obligation under the Charter', presented at Courting Change: Our Evolving Court, Supreme Court of Victoria 2007 Judges' Conference, Melbourne, 9-10 August 2007

'Interpretation, Dialogue and Defence in the Courts', presented at 2007 Protecting Human Rights Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 25 September 2007

Submission to the Consultation Committee for a Proposed Western Australian Human Rights Act, Government of Western Australia, Perth Australia

2006

'How Human Rights are Currently Protected in Tasmania and Whether the Protection of Human Rights Can Be Enhanced or Extended?' Submission to the Human Rights Community Consultation Committee of the Tasmanian Government, December 2006 p1-35

Conference paper:
'Australia's Responses to Trafficking in Persons: Background Paper', Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) Working Together to Prevent Human Trafficking Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-16 November 2006

'Mission Impossible: "Possible" interpretations under the Victorian Charter and their Impact on Parliamentary Sovereignty and Dialogue' Castan Centre Conference Human Rights 2006: The Year in Review, Melbourne, 1 December 2006

'Prevention of Trafficking' Workshop for Faculty of Law and Faculty of Arts, Monash University, 11 December 2006

2005

2004

‘The Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT): A Significant, Yet Incomplete, Step Toward the Domestic Protection and Promotion of Human Rights’ (2004) 15 Public Law Review 169-176

‘Inquiry into amendments to the Marriage Act 1961 and the Family Law Act 1975’, submission to the Commonwealth Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee (July 2004) 1-11 (with Dr Sarah Middleton)

2003

‘Rights and Democracy: A Reconciliation of the Institutional Debate’, a chapter in Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy and Adrienne Stone (eds.), Human Rights Protection: Boundaries and Challenges, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, 135-57

‘The Human Rights Act 1998 (UK): The Preservation of Parliamentary Supremacy in the Context of Rights Protection’, (2003) 9 Australian Journal for Human Rights 183-235

2002

2001

2000

‘Barriers to the Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights at the United Nations’ (2000) 26 Monash University Law Review 159-194

‘Indigenous Rights: Recent Developments in International Law’ (2000) 28 International Journal of Legal Information 266-310

‘Inquiry into a Bill of Rights for New South Wales’, submission to the New South Wales Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and Justice, on behalf of the NSW Branch of the Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Association. (April 2000) 1-41

1999

1997