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Professor Gillian Triggs

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Degrees

  • LL.B (Melb.1968 )
  • LL.M (SMU,1972)
  • PhD (Melb.1982)

Brief Biographical Details

Gillian Triggs is a Public International lawyer and a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She has been a Professor in Law at the University of Melbourne since 1996, having graduated in law in 1968 and gaining a PhD in 1982. Over the last few years, Professor Triggs has been the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London

Professor Triggs has published papers and books on the World Trade Organisation, Energy and Resources Law, Law of the Sea, Territorial Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Immunity, International Criminal Law, International Environmental Law and Human Rights. She is currently the Joint General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and a member of the editorial boards of the Melbourne Journal of International Law and the International Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law. Her most recent publication is a general text, International Law: Contemporary Principles and Practices (2006) and her forthcoming book, with Emeritus Professor Victor Prescott, is International Territorial Boundaries: Law and Politics.

Professor Triggs has maintained a commercial practice as a Consultant in International Law to Mallesons Stephen Jaques and has advised governments in the Asia Pacific region on questions relating to continental shelf rights and jurisdiction. She has also directed projects for the Asian Development Bank on legal capacity building in Vietnam, Mongolia and Indonesia and was the Australian Representative on the Council of Jurists for the Asia Pacific Forum for National Human Rights Institutions.

Publications

Forthcoming Works | Books | Chapters in Books | Journal Editor | Member Editorial Boards | Selected Refereed Journal Articles | Reports


Forthcoming Works

  • G Triggs and V Prescott, Territorial Boundaries: Legal and Political Issues (Brill Publishers)
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Books

  • Triggs, G, & Prescott, V, International Frontiers and Boundaries: Law, Politics, and Geography, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden (2008)
  • Triggs, G & Riddell, A (eds), Antarctica: Legal and Environmental Challenges for the Future, British Institute of International and Comparative Law: United Kingdom (2007)
  • Triggs, G, International Law: Contemporary Principles and Practices (2005) Butterworths/ Lexis Nexis, Sydney, (2006)
  • Saunders, C & Triggs, G (eds), Trade and Cooperation with the EU in the New Millennium (2002, Kluwers Law International)
  • Triggs, G & Le Hong Hanah (eds), Vietnam and International Commercial Law, Vols 1 and 2, (2002, Hanoi).
  • McCormack, T, Tilbury, M & Triggs, G (eds), A Century of War and Peace, Asia-Pacific Perspectives on the Centenary of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference (2000, Kluwer Law International)
  • Triggs, G (ed), The Antarctic Treaty Regime: Law, Environment and Resources (1987, Cambridge University Press)
  • Triggs, G, International Law and Australian Sovereignty in Antarctica (1986, Legal Books, Sydney)
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Chapters in Books

  • Triggs, G & Prescott, V, International Maritime Boundaries (Chapters 3 and 5) (April, 2005), American Society of International Law
  • Triggs, G, “Dispute Settlement under WTO: Implications for Developing Countries” in J Farrar (ed) 15(c) 2005 Festchrift for David Allan and Mary Hiscock, Bond University Law Review
  • Triggs, G, “Creative Conflict Resolution: The Timor Sea Treaty between Australia and East Timor” (1st ed 2004) (M Langton, M Tehan, L Palmer and K Shain (eds) in Honour Among Nations? Melbourne University Publishing, pp 329-342, ISBN 0 522 851 061
  • Triggs, G, “The Kyoto Protocol and Dispute Resolution under the World Trade Organisation” 2002 Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Yearbook 49-70
  • Triggs, G, “Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Consultation in Minerals and Energy Resource Development” in R Pring and D Zillman (eds), Public Participation in the Mineral and Energy Resources Industry (2002, Oxford University Press) 123-154
  • Triggs, G, “Vietnam and the World Trade Organisation”, in Le Hong Hanh and G. Triggs (eds), Vietnam and International Commercial Law (published in Vietnamese by the Hanoi Law University, 2002)
  • Triggs, G, “Globalisation and International Law in the 21st Century” in B Opeskin and D Rothwell (eds), Globalisation and Australian Law (Federation Press, 2002)
  • Triggs, G, “Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Australia’s Strategy” in Cameron (ed), The Kyoto Protocol and Emissions Trading. International Bar Association, Section on Energy & Resources Law (2001, Kluwer Law International)
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s War Crimes Trials and the Role of Law” in H Durham and T McCormack (eds), The 50th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on Humanitarian Law (1999, Kluwer Law International)
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s War Crimes Trials” in T McCormack and Simpson (eds), National and International Approaches to War Crimes Trials (1997)
  • Triggs, G, “A Comprehensive Environmental Regime” in R Herr, H Hall and M Haward (eds), Antarctica’s Future: Continuity or Change? (1990, AIIF: Tasmanian Government Printing Office, Hobart) 103-119
  • Triggs, G, “An Environmental Regime for Antarctica” in R Falk (ed), The Future of the Antarctic Regime (1990, Princeton University)
  • Triggs, G, “Customary International Law and Australian Law” in M Ellinghaus, A Bradbrook and A Duggan (eds), The Emergence of Australian Law (1989, Butterworths) 376-393
  • Triggs, G, “The Rights of People and Individual Rights: Conflict or Harmony?” in J Crawford (ed), The Rights of Peoples (1988, Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press) 141-158
  • Triggs, G, “Antarctica and the Antarctic Treaty System: A Balance of Prudence” International Bar Association, Energy Law “86 437-480, Mathew Benden, New York, 1986 (xiii-974)
  • Triggs, G, “A Minerals Regime for Antarctica: Compromise or Conflict?” in Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Yearbook (1984) Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Ltd 525-554
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s Sovereignty in Antarctica” in S Harris (ed), Australia’s Antarctic Policy Options (1984, CRES, Canberra) (xxi-412) 29-66
  • Triggs, G, “State Jurisdiction over Corporations: The Nationality Principle at International Law” in Ninth International Trade Law Seminar (1982) (vi-420) 47-117
  • Triggs, G, “Sovereign Immunity: A New Rule of International Law” in Fifth International Trade Law Seminar (1978) (xi-359) 258-28D
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Journal Editor

  • Joint General Editor, International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2006 to present)
  • Editor, Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Journal (2003- 2006)
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Member Editorial Boards

  • Honorary member of the Advisory Council of the Melbourne Journal of International Law
  • International Journal of Energy and Resources Law
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Selected Refereed Journal Articles

  • Triggs, G, “ Public International Law: Is It Fit For Purpose?” (2007) 7(2) Legal Information Management 113-123.
  • Triggs, G, “The Public International Lawyer and the Practice of International Law” (2005) 24 Australian Yearbook of International Law 201-218.
  • Triggs, G, “The Oceanic Litigation: A ‘judicial no-man’s land’ in the Timor Gap (2004), Issue 6, International Energy Law and Taxation Review, Sweet & Maxwell, ISSN 1472-4529
  • Triggs, G, “Dispute Settlement under the World Trade Organization: Implications for Developing Countries” (2003) Vol 15(2) Bond Law Review - Festschrift for David Allan & Mary Hiscock 44-70.
  • Triggs, G, “The Timor Sea and the International Unitisation Agreement for Greater Sunrise: Practical Solutions in the Timor Sea (2004) Vol 23, The Australian Year Book of International Law, pp 161-176. Published by the Centre for International and Public Law, Faculty of Law, The Australian National University, ISSN 0084-7658
  • Triggs, G, “Unitisation of the Greater Sunrise Oil and Gas Deposits in the Timor Sea:
    A Compromise for Australia and East Timor, (2003) International Energy Law and Taxation Review 207-213
  • Triggs, G & Dubern, J, “Selected Annotated Bibliography of Joint Venture Articles and Papers”, (2003) 22(3) Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal 240- 346
  • Triggs, G,“The International Criminal Court: a quiet revolution in Australian criminal law” (2003) 25(4) Sydney Law Review 507-534
  • Triggs, G, “The Conflict in Iraq and the International Rule of Law”, Working Paper Series No. 4, May 2003 School of Development Studies, The University of Melbourne
  • Triggs, G, “Kyoto Protocol : compliance and the World Trade Organisation” (2002) Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Yearbook 49-70.
  • Triggs, G, ”World Trade Organisation: Dispute Resolution and the Environment”, Asia Pacific Journal of International Environmental Law, Vol 7, Issues 3 and 4 (Kluwer Law International 2002) 43-70
  • Triggs, G & Bialek, D, “The New Timor Sea Treaty and Interim Arrangements for Joint Development of Petroleum Resources” (2002) 4 Melbourne Journal of International Law
  • Triggs, G, “The New Timor Sea Treaty Between East Timor and Australia” (2002) The Australian Journal of Asian Law
  • Triggs, G,“Proposed Timor Sea Arrangements Between Australia and the East Timor Transitional Administration, (2002) 20(1) Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law 40-49
  • Triggs, G & Bialek, D, “Australia’s Withdrawal of Maritime Disputes from the Jurisdiction of the ICJ and ITLOS” (2002) 17(3) International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
  • Triggs, G, “International Law and Asylum Seekers: A Legal Twilight Zone” (2001) 4 The Asia-Australian Papers 17-30
  • Triggs, G, “Asian Nations in Transition to Market Economies and the World Trade Organisation: The Shrimp Case” (2000) 28 International Journal of Legal Information 336-349
  • Triggs, G, “Japanese Scientific Whaling: An Abuse of Right or Optimum Utilization?” (2000) 5 Asia Pacific Journal of International Environmental Law 33-59
  • Triggs, G, “Legal and Commercial Risks of Investment in the Timor Gap” (2000) 1 Melbourne Journal of International Law 98-129
  • Triggs, G,“Australia’s Indigenous Peoples and International Law: Validity of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth)” (1999) 23(2) Melbourne University Law Review 372-415
  • Triggs, G, “The New Law of the Sea - A Legal Twilight Zone?” (March 1998) Maritime Studies
  • Triggs, G, “Confucius and Consensus: International Law in the Asian Pacific” (1997) Melbourne University Law Review 650-675
  • Triggs, G, “The Framework Convention on Climate Change: Enforcement and Australian Business” (1997) 16(2) Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Journal 134-140. (Comment)
  • Triggs, G, “International Human Rights in Asia: Is it Any Different?” (1997) Human Rights Law Journal
  • Triggs, G, “International Law in the Asian Pacific” (1997) 7(4) Public Law Review
  • Triggs, G, “Insider Trading: When Can Directors Deal?” (July 1993) Asia Business Law Review
  • Triggs, G, “Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change: Recognition of Differentiation” (1988) 17(1) Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Journal 30-39. (Comment)
  • Triggs, G, “Timor Gap Treaty Between Australia and Indonesia: Straddle Deposits Expose Legal Issues” (1988) Law Asia Journal 117-130
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s War Crimes Trials: A Moral Necessity or Legal Minefield?” (1987) 16 Melbourne University Law Review 382-401
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s Bilateral Nuclear Safeguards Agreement: A Triumph of Reality Over Symbolism?” (1985) 39 Australian Outlook 147-157
  • Triggs, G, “The Antarctic Treaty Regime: A Workable Compromise or a "Purgatory of Ambiguity"?”, (1985) 17 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 195-228
  • Triggs, G, “The Chinese View of the Protection of Victims of Armed Conflict - A Commentary” (1985) 9 Australian Yearbook of International Law 51
  • Triggs, G, “An International Convention on Sovereign Immunity? Some Problems in Application of the Restrictive Rule” (1982) 9 Monash University Law Review 74-113
  • Triggs, G, “Australian Sovereignty in Antarctica: Part II” (1982) 14 Melbourne University Law Review 302 - 333
  • Triggs, G, “Australian Sovereignty in Antarctica: Part I” (1981) 13 Melbourne University Law Review 123-158
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s Ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Acceptance or Repudiation?” (1982) 31 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 278-306
  • Triggs, G, “Australia’s Ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Its Domestic Application to Prisoner’ Rights” (1982) 3 Human Rights Law Journal 65-102
  • Triggs, G,“Australian Reservations and Declarations with Respect to the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (1981) 55 Australian Law Journal 699-700
  • Triggs, G, “Restrictive Sovereign Immunity: The State as International Trader” Part II (1979) 53 Australian Law Journal 296 - 306; Part II (1969) 53 Australian Law Journal 296-306
  • Triggs, G, “Extra-territorial Reach of US Anti-Trust Legislation: The International Law Implications of the Westinghouse Allegations of a Uranium Producer’s Cartel” (1979) 12 Melbourne University Law Review 250-282
  • Triggs, G, “Prisoners’ Rights to Legal Advice, and Access to the Courts: The Golder Decision by the European Court of Human Rights” (1976) 50 Australian Law Journal 229-245
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Reports

  • Triggs, G, Internationalisation of the Australian Law Degree. The report was prepared by the International Legal Services Advisory Council (ILSAC) for the International Legal Education and Training Committee, chaired by G Triggs, December 2003
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