Professor Sarah Joseph

Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
BA, LLB(Hons), LLM(1st Class), PhD,

Professional Profile

Professor Sarah Joseph is the Director for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.   Her teaching and research interests are international human rights law and constitutional law.

She has published a number of books including Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart 2004), co-authoring The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (OUP, 2nd ed, 2004), Federal Constitutional Law: A Contemporary View (Thompson, 2nd ed, 2006),  A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN (OMCT, 2006) and Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide (UN 2008).  Sarah has also published numerous articles and presented many papers in the fields of international human rights law and constitutional law.

She was a lead investigator on an ARC linkage project on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights (2002-4), and on a Discovery project on the WTO and Human Rights (2005-7).  She is currently leading a Castan Centre project preparing headnotes on all United Nations human rights cases for Oxford Reports in International Law (www.oxfordlawreports.com ).

Sarah has also conducted numerous professional human rights training courses for overseas and Australian Government officials.

Areas of Expertise

Human rights
International humanitarian law
Constitutional law

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional Law (LAW3200)
International Human Rights (LAW4155)
Human Rights Litigation (LAW7252)
International Humanitarian Law (LAW7218)
Overview of International Human Rights Law (LAW7026)
Terrorism and Human Rights (LAW7320)