Our People

Centre Director

Dr Ben Saul

Tel: (02) 9351 0354
Fax: (02) 9351 0200
Email: b.saul@usyd.edu.au

Centre Administrator

Edwin Bikundo

Tel: (02) 9351 0322
Fax: (02) 9351 0200
Email: law.scigl@usyd.edu.au

Centre Associates

Nicole Abadee is a Sydney barrister who has appeared in a number of leading High Court cases concerning International Law, both public and private. She teaches and writes in the field of International Law and the Use of Armed Force.

Ross Anderson, Senior Lecturer and expert in private international law and international criminal law.

Associate Professor Belinda Bennett, Associate Professor and expert in health law and globalisation, especially as it relates to biomedicine.

Professor Ben Boer, Professor of Environmental Law and expert in international environmental law, including sustainable development law, Asian Pacific environmental law and natural and cultural heritage law.

Vivienne Bath is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and an expert in the Law of International Business Transactions and in Chinese Law.

Irene Baghoomians is a lecturer and expert in international human rights law having experience in litigation of civil rights and human rights cases.

Graeme Coss, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law has research interests in, inter alia, international human rights law and international criminal law.

Associate Professor Mary Crock, Associate Professor and expert in international law and human rights law, especially migration, citizenship and refugee law.

Professor Mark Findlay, Professor of Criminal Law and expert in comparative criminal justice, globalisation and crime and international criminal law.

Justin Hogan-Doran is a Barrister in private practice in Sydney. He lectures in public and private international law and coaches the Jessup Mooting team. Justin is an Army Reserve Officer, attached to the ADF Military Law Centre.

Dr Fleur Johns, Senior Lecturer and member of the New York bar with research interests in public international law, including the history and theory thereof.

Associate Professor Rosemary Lyster, Associate Professor and expert in Asian Pacific environmental, international environmental law and international energy law, especially in relation to climate change.

Associate Professor Roger Magnusson is an expert in health law and in public health law with, an interest in global health governance and in legal response to epidemics.

Kate Miles, Lecturer and expert in international environmental law and international trade and investment law.

Dr Luke Nottage, Senior Lecturer and expert in comparative and transnational contract law, product liability, international arbitration and corporate governance especially in relation to Japan.

Alison Pert lectures in public international law and has a special interest in the use of armed force and Australia's compliance with its treaty commitments.

Dr Ben Saul, Senior Lecturer and barrister-at-law, specialises in public international law, particularly anti-terrorism, the use of force, humanitarian law, human rights, refugees, and the United Nations.

Dr David Rolph is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law where his research interest is in private international law, especially multi-state torts.

Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM, immediate past Challis Professor of International Law and expert in all areas of international law, especially international human rights law, the law of the sea, international humanitarian law and the use of armed force.

Dr Tim Stephens, is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law. Expert in international dispute resolution, international courts and tribunals, international environmental law and the law of the sea.

Andrew Tuch, Lecturer, has research interests in international financial services regulation, and globalisation and the provision of legal services.

Associate Professor Anne Twomey, Associate Professor, has interests in public international law and comparative constitutional law, especially issues concerning federal systems of governance.

Dr Irene Watson is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law and an expert in legal issues relating to Aboriginal Peoples.

Dr Brett Williams, Senior Lecturer and expert in international trade law and international regulations of trade especially the law of the World Trade Organisation.

Associate Professor Alex Ziegert, Associate Professor and expert in legal theory, notably the analysis of global law as a legal system.

Centre Affiliates

Jolyon Ford, Lecturer at the Australian National University, College of Law. A founding member of the Centre and former Lecturer, Sydney Law School, and with interests in public international law, constitutional law, and post-conflict studies.

Dr Peter Kwon, partner at DLA Piper, Hong Kong and specialist in cross-border securitisation, derivatives, capital markets, and structured finance law. Peter has research interests in legal culture, cross-border negotiations, and the interaction between the two.

Dr Jane McAdam is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published widely in the areas of international human rights law and refugee law

Dr Hitoshi Nasu is a lecturer at the ANU College of Law. His thesis on "Precautionary Approach to International Security Law: A Study of Article 40 of the UN Charter" was completed in 2006. He is also an Associate Director of The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL).

Dr Martyn Taylor is a Senior Associate at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, practising in competition & trade law, telecommunications law and international economic law. He has particular interest in international competition policy, international finance, and trade regulation.

Fiona Roughley is in the final year of her law degree at Sydney and was a member of the world championship Sydney University team at the 2007 Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC. She has research interests in international criminal law and private international law.

Natasha Simonsen is in the final year of her law degree at Sydney and was a member of the world championship Sydney University team at the 2007 Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC. She is currently writing a thesis on expropriation under international law.

Odette Murray is a recent graduate of Sydney Law School, and was a member of the world championship Sydney University team at the 2007 Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC. She also participated in the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law moot, the World Trade Organisation Moot, and the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot.

Zelie Wood was a member of the world championship Sydney University team at the 2007 Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC. She is currently studying European and Public International Law at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Lucas Bastin is an Associate to Justice Tamberlin in the Federal Court of Australia and a member of the world championship Sydney University team at the 2007 Phillip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC.

Sarah Williams (http://www.dur.ac.uk/law/staff/stafflist/?id=1592) formerly worked in international law at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is currently researching the establishment by the United Nations Security Council and Lebanon of a criminal tribunal to prosecute political violence in Lebanon.

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