Jennifer is the Convenor of the Socio-Legal Studies program in the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology. Jennifer's human rights research interests are in comparative transitional justice - law and reconciliation; the role of law in post-conflict reconstruction; reparations; addressing genocide; and law in the multicultural society.
Jon is an ARC Fellow in the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry. His research includes the ways in which environmental change puts human rights at risk, and the ways in which human rights deprivations increase people's vulnerability to environmental change.
Sarah is an associate director of the Asian Law Centre. Her research interests include domestic law and practice in China, and cross-cultural dispute resolution in the areas of trade and human rights, with particular attention to Canada, China and Japan.
John is a lecturer of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts. John's main human rights areas of interest concern the rights of Indigenous Australians and the ability of bills of rights to improve the human rights status of citizens. His most recent book is Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality (UQP).
Alison is a Senior Lecturer of Law at the Melbourne Law School. Alison’s research interests include the role of human rights and democracy in determining the participation of states in international organisations; the Commonwealth and human rights; international humanitarian law; and military law.
Dr Carolyn Evans
Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
Carolyn Evans is Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She is an expert in the international protection of religious freedom and also has strong research interests in the effectiveness of bills of rights.
Dr Simon Evans
Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
Simon's research in comparative constitutional law focuses on the constitutional mechanisms for protecting human rights in national legal systems. He has particular interests in the role of parliaments and executive governments in protecting human rights and in the relationship between social democracy and the protection of property rights.
Associate Professor Beth Gaze Beth's human rights research interests include Australian and comparative anti-discrimination law, and tribunals and access to legal process (for example in discrimination, social security and mental health tribunals). She is affiliated with the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
Andrew's human rights related researchinterests include defamation, free speech, fair trials, media regulation and access to diverse media.
Barbara Keys
Lecturer in History in the Faculty of Arts
Barbara’s expertise is in international history and United States foreign relations. She is particularly interested in the intersection of human rights and the Cold War. She is writing two books, one on the United States and the international politics of torture in the 1970s, and one on the roots of the human rights revolution of the 1970s.
Mr Bruce Oswald CSC
Associate Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law
Bruce is affiliated with the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law. His human rights research interests relate to peace operations, including the application of human rights in times of armed conflict and peacekeeping, and civilian policing and peace operations.
Associate Professor Dianne Otto
Director, International Human Rights Law Programme,
Institute for International Law and the Humanities
Di adopts a ‘critical yet engaged’ approach to human rights. Her research interests include how international human rights law operates within an international and a domestic context; gender and women’s rights; rights of marginalised groups; race and sexuality; NGOs and human rights; and economic and social rights.
Sundhya is the co-director of the Research Programme in Law and Development at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities. She has a special interest in the relationship between International Law, Development and Human Rights.
Amanda is an associate director of the Asian Law Centre. She adopts a ‘contextualised’ approach to human rights. Her current research interests include National Human Rights Institutions and human rights in the Asia Pacific region, examining in particular local understandings of human rights and the way in which human rights are interpreted in local contexts.
Tania is affiliated with the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law and has researched in human rights related areas including international humanitarian law, humanitarian intervention, and military justice. Her PhD thesis included an examination of cultural rights in the context of the World Trade Organization.
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