Our People

• Centre Advisory Board
• Centre Management Committee
• Centre Director and Centre Administrator
• Centre Associates
• Centre Affiliates
• Centre Visitors
• Centre Interns

 

Centre Advisory Board

Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM, RFD, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Chair of the Advisory Board

Professor Philip Alston, New York University School of Law

Dr Rosalie Balkin, Legal Director, International Maritime Organization

Mr Bill Campbell QC, Office of International Law, Australian Attorney-General’s Department

Professor Christine Chinkin, Department of Law, London School of Economics

Professor James Crawford SC, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University

Dr Michael Fullilove, Director of Global Issues, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney; Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (in 2008)

HE Judge C Weeramantry, Former Judge of the International Court of Justice; Director, Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, Colombo

Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi, Senshu University Law School; former Chair of the WTO Appellate Body

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Centre Management Committee

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

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

Professor David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law and expert in human rights and corporate responsibility, the World Trade Organisation, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

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

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

Dr Tim Stephens, is a Lecturer and expert in international dispute resolution, international courts and tribunals, international environmental law and the law of the sea.

Professor Gillian Triggs, Dean of Law, former Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, barrister, and expert in all areas of public international law.

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

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Centre Director

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

Centre Administrator

Ms Clare Gardoll (Monday-Wednesday only)

Fax: (02) 9351 0395
Email: law.scil@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.

Dr Thalia Anthony is a Lecturer with interests in indigenous people and the law (including indigenous rights in international law), criminology, comparative tort law, native title and legal history.

Vivienne Bath is a Senior Lecturer 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.

Associate Professor Belinda Bennett is 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.

Professor Lee Burns is a Professor in Taxation Law and specialises in international and comparative tax law, and is a consultant to the International Monetary Fund and various donor agencies on taxation reform in developing countries.

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

Dr Charlotte Epstein is a Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and her interests include concepts in IR theory (in particular, articulations of sovereignty, the state and North-South Relations), critical security studies, feminist IR theories, global environmental politics and the international politics of energy, and the overlap between international trade and the environment.

Katherine Fallah lectures in international law and specialises in international humanitarian and criminal law. She is writing a doctoral thesis on the accountability of mercenaries and private military contractors under international law.

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

Professor Jennifer Hill is Professor of Corporate Law with research interests in international and comparative corporate governance, including in the United States and Europe.

Justin Hogan-Doran is a Barrister in private practice in Sydney. He lectures in public and private international law and coached the winning Jessup Mooting team in 2007. Justin is an Army Reserve Officer, attached to the ADF Military Law Centre.

Associate Professor Rosemary Lyster, 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.

Jacqueline Mowbray is a Lecturer with a particular interest in international law and legal theory, with a focus on both international human rights law and international commercial issues.

Professor Ron McCallum is Professor of Industrial Law and an expert in labour and employment law.

Dr Shae McCrystal is a Senior Lecturer with interests in labour and employment law, including international labour law.

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

Rebecca Millar is a Senior Lecturer with research interests in GST, comparative VAT, and the income tax concession for research and development. She is also involved in taxation reform in developing countries for a number of donor agencies.

John Pace lectures in international human rights law and has served as a senior United Nations human rights official in Geneva, Iraq and Lebanon, among others.

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 James Renwick, a former Fulbright Scholar, with a doctorate from Sydney University, is a member of the NSW Bar, practising in the fields of both public and commercial law. He has appeared in many constitutional matters in the High Court.  He is a pioneer of the teaching and practice of national security law in Australia.  He holds a commission in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve.

Dr David Rolph is a Lecturer with research interests in private international law, especially multi-state torts.

Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM, former 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.

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

Associate Professor Anne Twomey 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 and an expert in legal issues relating to Aboriginal Peoples.

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

 

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Centre Affiliates

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.

Robert Dubler SC is a senior Sydney barrister who completed his PhD in international law from the University of Sydney, with research interests in international criminal law.

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

Joel Gilbourd is studying for a law degree at Sydney and was a member of the 2008 Australian champion Jessup Moot team.

Rebecca Graham is a criminal lawyer at NSW Legal Aid and a former Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she worked for a number of years on the Milosevic trial. She is a graduate of Sydney Law School.

Laura Johnston is in the final year of her law degree at Sydney and was a member of the 2008 Australian champion Jessup Moot team.  Her research interests include international humanitarian law and the law governing the use of force.

Eric Knight is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and previously an Associate at Baker & McKenzie in the Environmental Markets team. His research interests include corporate governance, and international environmental law with a focus on climate change and energy.

Dr Peter Kwon, partner at DLA Piper, Hong Kong and specialist in cross-border securitisation, derivatives, capital markets, and structured finance law and 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.

Alexandra Meagher is a member of the 2008 National Jessup International Law Champion team. She will complete her LLB at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris studying public international law in 2009.

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

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

Fiona Roughley is in the final year of her law degree at Sydney and was a member of the 2007 world championship Jessup Moot team. She has research interests in international criminal law and private international law.

Chris Sidoti is a human rights lawyer, activist and teacher who currently works from Sydney, Australia, as an international human rights consultant, specialising in the international human rights system and in national human rights institutions. He was director of the International Service for Human Rights, based in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2003 to 2007. He has been Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000), Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995) and Foundation Director of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1987-1992). He has also worked in non-government organisations, including for the Human Rights Council of Australia and the Australian Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. In 2007-08 he was the independent chair of the United Kingdom Government’s Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum He is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Griffith University (Queensland) and the Australian Catholic University, a Fellow of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University and an Affiliate at the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. He is also chair of the NSW Casino, Liquor and Gaming Control Authority, a quasi-judicial appointment.

Natasha Simonsen is in the final year of her law degree at Sydney and was a member of the 2007 world championship Jessup Moot team.  She is currently writing a thesis on expropriation under international law.

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

Sarah Williams formerly worked in international law at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now researching the establishment by the United Nations Security Council and Lebanon of a criminal tribunal to prosecute political violence in Lebanon.

Zelie Wood was a member of the 2007 world championship Jessup Moot team. She is currently studying European and Public International Law at Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands.    Top

Centre Visitors (2007)

Dr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court

Katja Samuel, PhD student, University of Sheffield and former barrister, Royal British Navy

Professor Gerry Simpson, London School of Economics

Professor August Reinisch, University of Vienna

Centre Interns (2007)

Anish Bhasin, final year Sydney law student in 2007 and now a lawyer at the Director of Public Prosecutions in Sydney.

Lily Tsen, final year Sydney law student in 2007 and now a graduate lawyer in Melbourne.

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