Professor Sarah Joseph

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

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 (LBC, 3rd ed, 2010),  A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN (OMCT, 2006) and Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide (UN 2008).  She has also co-edited two recent books for Edward Elgar Publishers, Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law (2010) and The World Trade Organization and Human Rights:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2009).  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.

A selection of Professor Joseph's publications is available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=865916

Areas of Expertise

Human Rights (International and Domestic)
International humanitarian law
Constitutional law

Teaching Commitments

Terrorism and human rights (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW7320)
Constitutional law 306 (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW3201)
The international covenant on civil and political rights (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW7463)