Professor Sarah Joseph

Research Interests

Constitutional Law
Human Rights

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

No current projects

Masters:

Current projects:
The military and the delivery of aid

Child labour and the WTO

Doctoral:

Four current projects: Cultural Relativism and Modes of Punishment; East Timor, the Right to Housing, and International Aid Agencies; The Human Rights Responsibilities of Global Economic Actors; The Scope of Substantive Discrimination in the Federal Racial Discrimination Act

Editorial Boards

Member, Editorial Board, Human Rights Law Review

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

Grants and Commissions

2005: "The World Trade Organisation and Human Rights", with Professor J Waincymer and Professor D Kinley, $240,000

2005: Don Chipp Foundation Grant, "Bills of Rights in an Age of Terror", First Chief Investigator with Dr J Debeljak, Mr P Emerton and Ibrahim Abraham, $5000

2004: The Accountability of Human Rights NGOs, funds for a research assistant, Monash Law Faculty small grant, $2900

2002-04: The Human Rights Responsibilities of Multinational Corporations, ARC Linkage Grant awarded in September 2001, with Professor D. Kinley, M. Davison, and J. Schultz (Monash University), worth $350,000+ over 2002-4.

2000: Funds to employ indexer for The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials and Commentary (co-author with Jenny Schultz and Melissa Castan), small grant awarded by the Monash University Law Faculty, $2500

1993-4: The United Kingdom's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Airey Neave Research Fellowship, with Professor D. Harris (University of Nottingham), ₤ 32,000

Publications

2008

Joseph S L, Amis L and Chambers R, Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law and International Business Leaders Forum, New York, USA, (2008)

Joseph, S L, 'Liability of Multinational Corporations' in Langford M (ed) Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge University Press, NY (2008) 613-627

Joseph S L, 'The Howard Government's Record of Engagement with the International Human Rights System' Australian Yearbook of International Law (2008) 27(1) 45-67

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2008