Dr Ben Saul

Profile
Publications

Profile

Degrees

BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Sydney) DPhil (Oxford)

Courses Taught

LAWS2005 International Law
LAWS3009 Advanced Public International Law
LAWS6243 Public International Law
LAWS6856 Counter-Terrorism Law and Policy
War Law: Use of Force & Humanitarian Law
International Humanitarian Law

Courses Previously Taught

Public International Law
Law of Armed Conflict
International Refugee Law
Law, Rights and Development
Australian Immigration Law and Practice
Public Law
Administrative Law

Research Interests

Public International Law
Anti-Terrorism Law
International Humanitarian Law
Law on the Use of Force
International Human Rights Law
United Nations Law

Brief Biographical Details
Dr Ben Saul is Director of the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law, Coordinator of the Master of International Law Program, a Senior Lecturer and barrister (including in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia). Ben specializes in public international law, particularly anti-terrorism law, humanitarian law, international criminal law and human rights law. He has published widely in international law journals and his recent book, Defining Terrorism in International Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006), is the first scholarly work on the subject. He has taught law at UNSW, Oxford and in Cambodia and is Editor in Chief of the Australian International Law Journal.

Ben has delivered lectures, seminars and conference papers in Australia and overseas, given evidence to numerous parliamentary and law reform inquiries into new legislation, and been active in public debates about terrorism, sedition, torture, refugees and human rights.

Ben is involved with many professional and community organizations in Australia and abroad. He is a member of the International Law Association’s International Committee for the Compensation of Victims of War and the management committees of the International Law Association (Australian Branch), the Refugee Advice and Casework Service, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and Sydney PEN. He is an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Centre and an Honorary Academic Fellow of the Senior Common Room at St Paul’s College, Sydney University.

Internationally, Ben has been a legal expert for the United Nations Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, monitored election violence in Sri Lanka for the International Commission of Jurists, assisted a member of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva and conducted field research on internal displacement in Sudan. He conducted international law or human rights training of Algerian and Kuwaiti diplomats at Oxford, Bhutanese refugees in Nepal for UNHCR, Laotian officials for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Victorian public servants under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights. He has been heavily involved in public interest litigation, including on challenges to the Israeli security barrier in the Occupied Territories, HIV/AIDS drug pricing in South Africa, mass human rights violations in Peru, the expansion of immigration detention in Britain, the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, war crimes against journalists in East Timor (the Balibo inquest), and the trial of the ‘Pine Gap 4’.

Previously at the University of NSW Law Faculty, he was Director of the Charter of Rights Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre for Public Law and a member of the International Law & Policy Group. At the University of Oxford he taught international law, lectured at the Refugee Studies Centre, and coordinated the Oxford Public Interest Lawyers and the Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group. Ben has also worked as a Legal Officer at the Australia Law Reform Commission and is a former chair of the NSW Juvenile Justice Advisory Council and former member of the NSW Legal Aid Commission’s Human Rights Committee.

Publications

B Saul, Terrorism in International Law (UNSW Press, Sydney, forthcoming)
B Saul, Defining Terrorism in International Law (Oxford University Press – Monographs in International Law Series, Oxford, 2006)
M Crock, B Saul and A Dastyari, Future Seekers II: Refugees and Irregular Migration in Australia (Federation Press, Sydney, 2006)
M Crock and B Saul, Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia (Federation Press and the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, Sydney, 2002)

Chapters in Books

B Saul, ‘Why Motive Matters: Defining Terrorism as Public Violence’ in G Williams and A Lynch (eds), Law and Liberty in the War on Terror (Federation Press, Sydney, forthcoming)
B Saul, ‘Wearing Thin: Restrictions on Headscarves and Other Religious Symbols’, in J McAdam (ed), Forced Migration and Human Rights (Hart, Oxford, forthcoming)
B Saul, ‘Alien, Carrier Sanctions and Immigration Security Screening’, in P, Cane, J, Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008)
B Saul, ‘Exclusion of Suspected Terrorists from Refugee Status’, in J Hocking et al (eds), Democracy at the Crossroads (Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
B Saul, ‘Australian Administrative Law: The Human Rights Dimension’, in M Groves et al (eds), Australian Administrative Law: Fundamentals, Principles and Doctrines (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Saul, B, “The Curious Element of Motive in Definitions of Terrorism: Essential Ingredient or Criminalising Thought?” in A Lynch, E MacDonald & G Williams (eds), Law and Liberty in the War on Terror, Federation Press: Sydney (2007) 28 - 38
B Saul, ‘Defining Terrorism to Protect Human Rights’, in D Staines (ed), Interrogating the War on Terror (Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2007), 190
B Saul, ‘Nation Skilling’, in M Crock & K Lyon (eds), Nation Skilling: Migration, Labour & the Law Symposium (Desert Pea Press, 2002)
B Saul, ‘Enter A Vagrant Land: The Contribution of Migrants to Australian Society’, in G Hage and R Couch (eds), The Future of Multiculturalism, (Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Sydney, 1999)

Law Journal Articles

B Saul, ‘Branding Enemies: Regional Legal Responses to Terrorism in Asia’ (2007) Asian Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (forthcoming)
B Saul, ‘Censorship of Religious Texts: The Limits of Pluralism’ (2006) 8 UTS Law Review, 49
B Saul, ‘Defending “Terrorism”: Justifications and Excuses for Terrorism in International Criminal Law’ (2006) 25 Australian Yearbook of International Law, 177
B Saul, ‘The Dangers of the United Nations’ “New Security Agenda”: Collective and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific Region’ (2006) 1 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 147
B Saul, ‘Reasons for Defining and Criminalizing Terrorism in International Law’ (2006) 6 Mexican Yearbook of International Law 419
B Saul, ‘Speaking of Terror: Criminalizing Incitement to Violence’ (2005) 28 UNSW Law Journal 868
B Saul, ‘Two Justifications for Terrorism: A Moral Legal Response’ (2005) 30 Alternative Law Journal 219
B Saul, ‘Crimes and Prohibitions of “Terror” and “Terrorism” in Armed Conflict: 1919-2005’ (2005) 4 Journal of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 264
B Saul, ‘Attempts to Define “Terrorism” in International Law’ (2005) 52 Netherlands International Law Review 57 (republished in Turkish)
B Saul, ‘Definition of “Terrorism” in the UN Security Council: 1985-2004’ (2005) 4 Chinese Journal of International Law 141 (republished in Turkish)
B Saul, ‘International Terrorism as a European Crime: The Policy Rationale for Criminalization’ (2003) 11 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 323
B Saul, ‘The Legality of the War in Iraq in 2003’ (2003) 8 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 267
B Saul, ‘Compensation for Unlawful Death in International Law: A Focus on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (2004) 19 American University International Law Review 523
B Saul, ‘Torturing Terrorists After September 11: Dershowitz’ Torture Warrant’ (2004) 27 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 645
B Saul, ‘Election Violence in Sri Lanka: Implementing the Right to a Free and Fair Election’ (2002) Asia Pacific Journal of Human Rights and Law 1
B Saul, ‘Was the conflict in East Timor “genocide” and why does it matter?’ (2001) 2 Melbourne Journal of International Law 477
B Saul, ‘In the Shadow of Human Rights: Human Duties, Obligations and Responsibilities’ (2001) 32 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 565
B Saul, ‘Genetic Policing: Forensic DNA Testing in NSW and the DNA Database’ (2001) 13 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 92
B Saul, ‘Cultural Nationalism, Human Rights and the Right of Self-Determination in Bhutan’ (2000) 12 International Journal of Refugee Law 321
B Saul, ‘The International Crime of Genocide in Australian Law’ (2000) 22 Sydney Law Review 527

Other Publications

B Saul, “From the Guest Editor: building the law on genocide” (2007) 9 Journal of Genocide Research, 173
B Saul, Book Review of Stephen Grey’s Ghost Plane: the untold story of the CIA’s torture programme (Scribe, Melbourne, 2007), in Law Society Journal, July 2007.
B Saul, ‘Response to Danielle Celermajer’s “Are we entering a post human rights era?” (2007) Human Rights Defender
B Saul, ‘A Casual Global Citizen?: Australia’s Role in the UN Oil for Food Program’ (2006) 15(2) Human Rights Defender 10
B Saul, Terrorism (2006) Hot Topic: Legal Issues in Plain Language, Legal Information Access Centre
B Saul, ‘The Politics of Punishment: Banning Terrorist Organizations’, The Blade, August 2006
B Saul, Book Review of Peter Reddy, Torture:What You Need to Know (Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2005) in (2006) 44(9) Law Society Journal 95
B Saul, ‘Defining Terrorism to Protect Human Rights’, FRIDE Working Paper (Spanish Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue), January 2006
B Saul, ‘Preventing Communal Violence? Blurring Sedition, Vilification and Terrorism’ (2005 Special Issue) Human Rights Defender, 15
B Saul, “Defining Terrorism to Protect Human Rights” (2005) 14(2) Human Rights Defender, 2
B Saul, Briefing Note for Parliamentarians, Sedition Offences in the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005, 1 November 2005
B Saul, ‘In fear of freedom’ (2005) 24 Human Rights Defender (Amnesty International) 9
B Saul, ‘Out of Balance’, Australian Policy Online, 21 September 2005
B Saul, Briefing Note for Parliamentarians, Counter-Terrorism Law Proposals, September 2005 (republished by AsiaRights)
B Saul, ‘The Terror of Torture’ (May 2006) No 13 Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Newsletter 5
Book review of The Torture Papers, (2005) 27 Sydney Law Review 585 (republished in (May 2006) No 13 Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Newsletter 12
B Saul and J McAdam, Briefing Note for Federal Government Parliamentarians: Mandatory Immigration Detention in International Law, 16 June 2005
‘A Just Peace, Not Just Any Peace: In Defence of Hanan Ashrawi’, online: Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy (Miftah) 2003
Book Review of J Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (2002), in (2003) 16 Journal of Refugee Studies 449
‘Do Terrorists Have Human Rights?’, UK Law Society, London, July 2002
‘Legal Professional Privilege – Balancing Law Enforcement Against Protecting the Regulated’ (2002) 76(2) Law Institute Journal 68
‘Removing Legal Professional Privilege: A Policy Imperative?’ (2001) 39(9) Law Society Journal 67
‘Privilege against Self-incrimination in Federal Regulation’ (2001) Reform
‘Olympic Move On Powers: Street Sweeping and the Erosion of Public Space’ (2000) 11 Polemic
‘Human Rights in Imperial China’ (2000) 10 Polemic
‘Refugees, Discrimination and the Rule of Law in Bhutan’ (2000) 10 Polemic
‘Torture and Statelessness in Bhutan’ (2000) Centre for Asian and Pacific Law Newsletter
‘Punishing Genocide in Australia’ (2000) Union Recorder
‘Time was not always money: (Re)marking time in history’ (1998) Hermes
‘Dismantling White Male Nationalism’ (1997) Hermes

Lectures, Seminars and Conference Papers

‘Contemporary Challenges in International Humanitarian Law’, presented at the Society of International Law and Politics and International Committee of the Red Cross Workshop, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, 10 December 2007
‘The Environment, Conflict and International Security’, presented at the Indian Society of International Law, Fifth International Conference on Environmental Law, Delhi, 8-9 December 2007
‘Voicing Dissent: Anti-Terrorism Laws and Freedom of Expression’, presented at the University of Western Sydney and Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies/Centre for Community Welfare Training Graduate Diploma of Social Sciences (Community Services), Sydney, 19 November 2007
‘An Australian Bill of Rights?’, presented at the NSW Young Lawyers Human Rights Committee Networking Evening, Sydney, 1 November 2007
‘International Security Law, Migrants and Refugees: Threatening or Threatened?’, presented at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy workshop Securitizing Migration: State Security or Human Security?, University of Sydney, 19 October 2007
‘Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Laws and Civil Liberties’ (with McKew, M & Burnside), presented at the Public Forum, Pennant Hills Community Centre, 4 October 2007
‘Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Laws’ (with Keneally, T), presented at the Northern Beaches Your Rights at Work Group The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Forum, Manly Leagues Club, Sydney, 27 September 2007
‘The Relationship of the Terrorism Convention to Other Branches of International Law’, High-Level Seminar: Towards a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, German Federal Foreign Office and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, 11-12 September 2007
‘Reasserting Russian Power in an American Century: Threatened or Threatening?’, presented at Sydney Summit on Russia, Park Hyatt Hotel, Sydney, 4 September 2007
‘The International Constitutional Order’ (with de Wet, E), presented at the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence Intersections Seminar Series, Sydney Law School, 23 August 2007
‘Irregular Renditions and Torture’, presented at the UNSW Amnesty International Forum, Sydney, 22 August 2007
“The Law on Terror: Necessary Evil – or Twilight of the Rule of Law?”, Address to the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, 15 August 2007
‘The Equivalent Logic of Torture and Terrorism: Legal Regulation of Moral Monstrosity’, Symposium on Terrorism and Torture, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, 9-11 August 2007
‘Apologist, Formalist or Jurist Par Excellence: Julius Stone and the Question of Palestine in International Law’, Julius Stone Centenary Conference, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 5-7 July 2007
‘The Legal Cornerstone: Competing Definitions of Terrorism’, Law and Liberty in the War on Terrorism International Conference, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Sydney, 4-6 July 2007
‘What Is The “International Rule of Law” and Does It Need Restoring?’, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference, Canberra, 28-30 June 2007
‘Complementarity or Collision of Overlapping Legal Regimes: The Impact of Human Rights Law and Security Council Measures on the Law of Occupation’, presented at the International Committee of the Red Cross, Minerva Centre for Human Rights (Hebrew University) and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung conference Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 5-7 June 2007
‘Is there an Asian International Law?’, Asian Law Institute Conference, Jakarta, 24-25 May 2007
‘Access to Justice’ Panellist, Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers Conference, UTS Law School, Sydney, 25 November 2006
‘Defining Terrorism in International Law’, Institute of Juridical Investigation, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 9 November 2006
Presenter, Roundtable on Anti-Terrorism Law and Academic Research, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, 23 October 2006
Security and Terrorism Law in Asia, UNSW Law School (International Law and Policy Group), International Meeting for International Law Scholars in Asia, 21 October 2006
‘Regional Legal Responses to Terrorism in the Asia-Pacific’, Regionalising International Criminal Law Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 18-20 August 2006
‘Torture, Terrorism and the Law: Lessons for Democracies’, Australian Red Cross (Queensland), Professional Development Session, Brisbane, 12 July 2006
‘Preventive Detention and Terrorism’, International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law Conference, Brisbane, 3 July 2006
‘Regional Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific Region: from Terrorism to Human Security’, Australia New Zealand Society of International Law Conference, 1 July 2006
‘Regional Legal Responses to Terrorism: ASEAN, SAARC and Beyond’, Asian Law Institute, 3rd Annual Conference, Shanghai, 26 May 2006
Moderator, ‘Speaking of Rights and Liberties in an Age of Terrorism’, An Evening in Conversation with Professor Conor Gearty and Professor Hilary Charlesworth, NSW Parliament House, 3 May 2006
‘Never Negotiate with Terrorists? Amnesties, Pardons and Immunities for Terrorism’, Invited Expert Workshop on Terrorism, National Europe Centre, Australian National University, 21 April 2006
‘Migration, Terrorism and Globalisation’, St Paul’s College Globalisation Conference, 8 April 2006
‘The Torture Debate: International Law and The Age of Terrorism’, Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Lecture Series, NSW Law Week, Sydney, 28 March 2006
‘Australian Anti-Terrorism Laws and Human Rights: Legislating for Insecurity?’, Seminar at St Paul’s College, Sydney University, 8 March 2006
Seminar on Sedition Laws for the Australian Law Reform Commission, Sydney, 10 February 2006
NSW Law Society (Young Lawyers), Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Seminar on the Anti-Terrorism Act (No 2) 2005, Sydney, 8 February 2006
‘Terrorism and Human Rights’, Guest Lecture for the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Summer School, University of Sydney, 21 January 2006
‘Race, Religion and Immigration in a Time of Terror’, Moving On: Forced Migration and Human Rights Conference, NSW Parliament House, Sydney, 22 November 2005
‘Immigration and Race in the War on Terror’, UK-Australia Roundtable on Legal Responses to Terrorism, Faculty of Law, University College London, 26 September 2005
‘Defining Terrorism to Protect Human Rights’, War/Terror Seminar Series, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, 1 September 2005
'Defining Terrorism', United Nations Association of Australia, UN 60th Anniversary Conference on the UN High-Level Panel Report, 13 August 2005, ANU, Canberra
'Measuring ‘Terror’: Proving Crimes of Terrorism by the Use of Expert Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence in Court', 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Paris, 6-8 July 2005
‘Torture Degrades Us All', International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International and the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 26 June 2005 (also published online)
'Terrorism: A Political or Jurisprudential Question?', Terrorism and Law Research Workshop, Gilbert + Tobin Centre for Public Law, Coogee Beach, 20 June 2005
'Beyond Definition of Terrorism: Justifying, Excusing and Defending Terrorist Crimes', Australian New Zealand Society for International Law, 13th Annual Conference, Canberra, 16-18 June 2005
'Collective and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific Region: The New Security Agenda', 2nd Annual Conference of the Asian Law Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, on 26-27 May 2005
'Defining Terrorism as an International Crime: Efforts by the United Nations and the European Union', Human Rights Initiative, Central European University, Budapest, 27 April 2005
'Current Problems and Developments in the Debate about Defining Terrorism as an International Crime', Institute for European, International and Comparative Law, Department of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, 26 April 2005
'Threats to Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific: The Evolving Mandate of the UN Security Council in International Law', Conference on Peace, Justice and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific Region (hosted by the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the International Peace Academy, and the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association Brisbane), 1-3 April 2005
‘Exclusion of Suspected Terrorists from Asylum’, Institute for International Integration Studies (Trinity College, Dublin), Discussion Paper No 26, July 2004
‘Exclusion of Suspected Terrorists from Asylum’, Czech EU Accession Conference on Asylum, Prague, June 2004
'Reasons for Defining Terrorism in International Law’, Agorae, European Society of International Law, Inaugural Conference, Florence, May 2004
Rapporteur, Freshfields Terrorism Conference, All Souls College, Oxford, 2004
Rapporteur, Club of Three Conference, Lancaster House, London, 2002
‘Legal Consequences of Israel’s Separation Barrier in the Occupied Territories’, Paper to the Human Rights Discussion Group, Oxford, Feb 2004
‘Torturing Terrorists After September 11: Dershowitz’ Torture Warrrant’, Paper to the Human Rights Discussion Group, Oxford, Nov 2003
‘Torturing Terrorists After September 11’, Paper to the Migration, Mental Health and Human Rights Symposium, 28th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Sydney, 2 Oct 2003
‘The Degradation of Asylum Law in Australia 1994-2002’, Seminar, Refugee Studies Centre, May 2002
‘Preventing and Punishing Genocide in Australia’, Association of Australian Law Students’ Conference, Melbourne, July 2000
UNHCR Seminar on Bhutanese Refugees, Sydney Law School 1999

Other Presentations

‘David Hicks and International Law’, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, NSW Young Lawyers and Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, Sydney, 22 August 2007
‘Introduction to International Human Rights Law’, Amnesty International Australia, Sydney, 25 July 2007
Guest Lecture, ‘International Law and the War in Iraq’, Foundations of Law Lecture, Sydney Law School, 28 May 2007
Guest Lecture, ‘Prisoners of War and the War on Terror’, Australian Red Cross, International Humanitarian Law Certificate Course, Sydney, 22 May 2007
Guest Lecture, ‘Forced Migration and Development’, UNSW Postgraduate Masters course on Law and Development, Sydney, 3 May 2007
‘International Law and Bills of Rights’, HSC Legal Studies Seminar, Sydney, 23 November 2006
‘So You Want to be a Human Rights Lawyer?’, Amnesty International Forum, Sydney, 7 June 2006
‘Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Law and Human Rights’, Amnesty International Forum, Parramatta Town Hall, 10 May 2006
Guest Lecture on Refugee Law, Department of Social Policy, University of Sydney, 11 April 2006
Guest Lecture on Refugee Law, postgraduate Human Rights Law, UNSW Law School, 10 April 2006
‘Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Laws’, Discussion Forum on Sedition with Islamic Leaders, Australian Muslim Civil Rights Network, Sydney, 17 December 2005
‘Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Laws and Human Rights’, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights Forum, Sydney, 12 December 2005
‘Australia’s New Counter-Terrorism Laws’, Community Forum: Speaking Up for Democracy, Asquith Community Centre, 19 November 2005
Amnesty International UNSW, Australian counter-terrorism laws, UNSW, 11 October 2005
Moderator, “Creating Non-Citizens”, International Forum: Democracy at the Crossroads? Counter-terrorism and the State, Prato, Italy, 29-30 September 2005
‘US Military Commissions’, Speech for Amnesty International, Kirribilli House, 18 September 2005
Guest Lecture on Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Laws, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, 8 September 2005
Briefing on the Law of Torture, Australian Red Cross – International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee, Red Cross House, Sydney, 2 August 2005
Discussant, Professor Wojciech Sadurski’s Paper on ‘Law’s Legitimacy and “Democracy-Plus”’, European Law Centre Seminar, 26 July 2005
Moderator, United Nations Reform: A Public Seminar, UNSW International Law & Policy Group, NSW Parliament House, 25 July 2005
‘Defining Terrorism and Human Rights’, Guest Lecture to Masters Students, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, 1 July 2005
“The Soldier’s Obligation: From Guantanamo Bay to the Gaza Strip, Soldiers Face Moral Dilemmas”, Mizrachi Synagogue, Sydney, 12 June 2005
“UN Reform”, Talk to UNSW United Nations Society, UNSW, 24 May 2005
Participant, Australian Red Cross, Hypothetical Debate: Ethical Nation-Building: What are the Responsibilities of Occupying Powers?, University of Sydney, 16 May 2005
“Anglo-Saxon and European Criminal Law Systems’, North Shore Discussion Group, 14 May 2005
Judge, 5th International Asylum Law Moot Competition, Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Legal Assistance through Refugee Clinics, Budapest, 29 April–1 May 2005
Discussant, Paper by Professor Richard Bellamy on “Constitution Making as Normal Politics: Disagreement and Compromise in the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Constitution”, UNSW Faculty Seminar Series, 6 April 2005
International Law Teaching Workshop, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2004
Rapporteur, Freshfields Terrorism Conference, All Souls College, Oxford, 2004
Rapporteur, Club of Three Conference, Lancaster House, London, 2002
UNHCR Presentation on Bhutanese Refugees, Sydney Law School 1999

Submissions

B Saul, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Inquiry into the Agreement on Operational and Strategic Cooperation between Australia and the European Police Office, 16 July 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Inquiry into the Treaty between Australia and the Kingdom of Thailand on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, 16 July 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Inquiry into the International Trade Integrity Bill 2007, 11 July 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Inquiry into the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007, 10 July 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill 2007, 6 July 2007
Joint Submission by B Saul, Sydney PEN and Australian Lawyers for Human Rights on the Attorney-General’s Classification Review of Material Advocating Terrorism, 29 May 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Consultation Committee for the Proposed Western Australian Human Rights Act, 16 May 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Inquiry into the Australia Indonesia Security Cooperation Agreement, 23 February 2007 (and oral evidence in Sydney, 30 April 2007)
B Saul, Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Inquiry into the Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006, 19 February 2007 and supplement of 13 March 2007
B Saul, Submission to the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute on a Tasmanian Charter of Human Rights, 13 October 2006
B Saul, Submission on New Matilda’s Australian Human Rights Act, 7 July 2006
B Saul, Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of Sedition Laws (Discussion Paper), 6 July 2006
B Saul, Submission to the UK Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, on the Definition of Terrorism in UK law, 22 June 2006
B Saul, Submission on the Refugee Review Tribunal and Migration Review Tribunal ‘Draft Guidance on the Assessment of Credibility’, 2 June 2006
B Saul, Submission to the Department of Immigration’s Review of Bridging Visas, 12 May 2006
B Saul, Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission Review of Sedition Laws (Issues Paper), 14 April 2006
B Saul, Submission to the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, Review of Australian Extradition Law and Practice, 10 April 2006
A Lynch, B Saul and G Williams, Submission to the Security Legislation Review Committee inquiry into Australian anti-terrorism legislation, 1 February 2006
A Lynch, B Saul and G Williams, Submission to the International Commission of Jurists, Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism and Human Rights, January 2006 (and oral hearings)
A Lynch, B Saul and G Williams, Submission to the UN Commission on Human Rights, Special Rapporteur on Terrorism’s Study on Australia’s anti-terrorism laws, January 2006
B Saul, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2005, January 2006
A Lynch, B Saul and G Williams, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No 2) 2005 (and oral hearings), Sept 2005
B Saul, Submission to the Victorian Bill of Rights community consultation process, August 2005
G Williams and B Saul, Submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee Review of the Part 3, Division III of the ASIO Act 1979 (Cth), March 2005
G Williams and B Saul, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Migration Litigation Reform Bill, April 2005
G Williams and B Saul, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the National Security Information Legislation Amendment Bill, April 2005
Submission for the Refugee Advice and Casework Service to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Act 2005, December 2005
Submission for the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (with J McAdam), Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006, 22 May 2006
Submission for Amnesty International to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Inquiry into Australia’s Role in the United Nations in the Post-Cold War Environment
Submission for Amnesty International (Australia) on the Federal Private Member’s Australian Bill of Rights, April 2001
Submission for the Law Council of Australia to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, Inquiry into the Anti-Genocide Bill 1999 (Cth) (2000)
Numerous submissions on law and justice issues for the NSW Government’s Youth Advisory Council
Submission to the Australian People’s Inquiry into Mandatory Immigration Detention 2005-06
Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Genetic Information 2001
Submission to the NSW Parliament Inquiry into DNA Legislation 2001
Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal (2000)
Submission to the NSW Legislative Council Committee, Inquiry into a NSW Bill of Rights (2000)
Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, Stolen Generation Inquiry (2000)
Submission to the Department of Immigration, Illegal Workers in Australia (1999)
Submission to the Constitutional Convention process 1998, Senate Hansard, 2 February 1998, p 27 and Appendix
Submission to the National Multicultural Advisory Council, Migrants in Australia (1998)
Submission to the Senate Committee Inquiry into Voluntary Student Unionism (1998)

Newspaper/media opinion articles

B Saul, ‘A gritty request, if we can stomach it’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2007
B Saul, ‘Enforcing International Law: Australia’s Responsibilities’, Australian Policy Online, 1 August 2006
B Saul, ‘Australian Law Reform Commission proposals on sedition’, New Matilda, 5 June 2006
B Saul, ‘A stealthy erosion of individual autonomy’, The Canberra Times, 10 March 2006
B Saul, ‘A visa that denies fundamental human rights’, The Age, 26 May 2006, p 15
B Saul, Open letter to the Attorney-General on the Cole Inquiry, The Australian, 13 April 2006
B Saul, ‘AWB as fall guy not good enough’, The Australian, 5 April 2006, p 14
B Saul, ‘It’s essential to clean up this mess’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 December 2005
B Saul, ‘New laws an exercise in overreaction’, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 November 2005
B Saul, ‘More harm than good may flow from updated anti-terror laws’, The Australian, 20 October 2005 (republished in Online Opinion)
B Saul, ‘Watching what you say’, The Age, 19 October 2005 (republished in Australian Policy Online)
B Saul, ‘Without safeguards, new laws are suspect’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 2005
B Saul, ‘Overseas terrorism laws can’t simply be transplanted’, The Australian, 16 September 2005, p 24
B Saul, ‘Born-again Liberals grow a backbone’, The Australian, 7 June 2005
B Saul, ‘When democracy is corrupted’, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2005
G Williams and B Saul, “Spying an opportunity to entrench power”, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May 2005 (republished in On-line Opinion)
G Williams and B Saul, “Strike a blow for balance”, Courier Mail, 23 May 2005
B Saul, ‘Israel, A Law Unto Itself’, Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), 22-28 July 2004
B Saul, ‘An artless crime against history’, The Australian, 15 April 2003

Professional Associations

International Law Association
International Commission of Jurists (Australian Branch)
Asian Society of International Law
American Society of International Law
European Society of International Law
Australian New Zealand Society of International Law
Law Council of Australia (International Law Section)
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Amnesty International
NSW Council for Civil Liberties
NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture & Trauma Survivors

Awards

Sidney Myer Centre Dunlop Asialink Fellowship (2006)
Humanitarian Award, NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture & Trauma Survivors (2006)
Human Rights Award, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Washington College of Law, American University (2003)
Scholarship, European Society of International Law Inaugural Conference (2004)
Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Medal, Foundation for Young Australians (2001)
Sydney University Medal, WC Wentworth Essay Prize (1998)
Sydney University Medal, Best Honours Thesis in Australian Literature (1998)

Sydney Law School

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