Currently enrolled research students
Panel: TBA
Topic: Joint Development of Offshore Polar Oil and Gas Resources and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: D Anton, JP Fonteyne
Topic: Regional cooperation regimes and third parties
Supervisor: S Heathcote
Panel: T Christakis, JP Fonteyne
Topic: Enhancing deterrence of anti-fraud measures in Thai securities law: A study of individual and corporate sanctions for brokerage offences
Supervisor: M Nolan
Panel: S Bottomley, K Hall, P Vinaiphat
Topic: The Quest for Legitimacy: Historical Analysis of the Judicial Review Jurisdictions of the Superior Courts in Pakistan
This thesis aims to present a contextualized account of the law in postcolonial Pakistan and situate the judicial review...
Supervisor: Professor Peter Cane
Panel: Leighton McDonald
Topic: To what extend can International Humanitarian Law regulate the development, acquisition or adoption of future weapons?
Supervisor: R McLaughlin
Panel: W Boothby, H Nasu
Topic: Good international citizenship and the Rudd Labor government's engagement with international climate law
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: T Bonyhady, L Elliott, A MacIntosh
Topic: The law and reality of the Coal Seam Gas industry in New South Wales and Queensland.
The Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry in Australia is still a relatively immature industry when compared to mining and conventional oil & gas production. As...
Supervisor: A Macintosh
Panel: N Gunningham, D Falvey
Topic: Corporate governance of state: Controlled listed companies in the People's Republic of China
Supervisor: P Spender
Panel: R Tomasic, N Andrews, V Taylor
Topic: Small scale uses of force: The threshold between "force" under the Jus Ad Bellum and "other forcible measures".
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: S Heathcote, R McLaughlin
Topic: The Argument for Legalisation of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Australia
Supervisor: M Gani
Panel: M Nolan, J Seymour
Topic: Congruent Regulation: Designing the Optimal Australian Utility Regime
Supervisor: S Bottomley
Panel: P Spender, A Bruce
Topic: The People's Revolutionary Tribunal: The World's First Genocide Trial
Supervisor: H Charlesworth AM
Panel: D Rothwell, K Anderson
Topic:
A Regulatory Framework for Australian Population Law and Policy
Supervisor: K Rubenstein
Panel: S Tongue; S Khoo
Topic: Post-conflict policing in Afghanistan
Have coalition policing efforts been effective since the 2001 intervention? The thesis will focus not only on policing efforts but whether or not the criminal laws are sufficient enough to enable the...
Supervisor: R McLaughlin
Panel: B Oswald, J Devereux
Topic: Raping the Benefits: Big Business and the Sexual Exploitation of Children
Supervisor: Simon Rice
Panel: David Matas; Katie Young
Topic: Recognisability: A lens for the application of copyright law and moral rights law to music sampling
Supervisor: M Rimmer
Panel: K Crawford, M Coper
Topic: Fraud control in carbon emissions trading: Compliance and enforcement
Supervisor: J Prest
Panel: M Raff, A MacIntosh
Topic: Australian water rights historically and today
Supervisor: T Bonyhady
Panel: R Kuhn, A Gardner
Topic: Concepts of Justice in Australian Environmental Law
Supervisor: Tim Bonyhady
Panel: John Dryzek
Topic: The Antarctic Environmental Protocol: Functionality of present barrier protections regarding hydrocarbon extraction in the Southern Ocean deep seabed.
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: D Anton, A Hemmings
Topic: Do all roads lead to Rome? A comparative analysis of the Rome Statute of the ICC and the corresponding provisions of the Commonwealth Criminal Code
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: M Nolan, M Gani
Topic: A right to fair trial in the context of counter-terrorism: The uses and suppression of sensitive information in Australia and the United Kingdom
Supervisor: S Bronitt
Panel: H Charlesworth, P Bailey
Topic: Punishing Parents: Mercy; motherhood and individual justice in the Australian sentencing landscape
Supervisor: S Bronitt
Panel: M Thornton, J Seymour, M Nolan
Topic: State or Territory Citizens: Subjecthood or Membership
Supervisor: Kim Rubenstein
Panel: Mark Nolan; James Stellios
Topic: Negligent combatants? Liability for negligent homicide and injury during armed conflict: An Australian perspective
Supervisor: M Nolan
Panel: R McLaughlin, J Devereux
Topic: Australians all: A critical exploration of the cultural construction of the Australian community through current migration and citizenship Laws
Supervisor: K Rubenstein
Panel: S Tongue, F Jenkins
Topic: Reconsidering Australian Animal Cruelty Law Through the Lens of Violence
Supervisor: M Nolan
Panel: A Bruce, T Faunce, S Dennis
Topic: How do country lawyers recognise and resolve conflicts of interest?
Supervisor: T Foley
Panel: R Mortensen, University of Queensland, V Braithwaite
Topic: Regulation of Synthetic Biology
Supervisor: M Rimmer
Panel: T Bonyhady, B van Leeuwen
Topic: The Australian Defence Force and the executive power
Supervisor: F Wheeler
Panel: R Creyke, S Kaye
Topic: Legal regulation of environmental threats to Australia's marine environment
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: M Zagor, D Anton
Topic: The power of piracy jure gentium in the context of its enforcement in Somalia
Supervisor: R McLaughlin
Panel: D Rothwell and D Manderson
Topic: Australia's responses to new international law 1901-1944
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: P Bailey, K Boreham
Topic: How can legal education in the South Pacific be improved?
Supervisor: M Coper
Panel: M Nolan
Topic: Constitutional and theoretical analysis of the Australian position on the legality-merits distinction by comparison with the UK and US models.
Supervisor: P Cane
Panel: L McDonald; K Young
Topic: Power at the Border: using philosophy to trace the paths of violence, responsibility and ethics in Australian asylum law
Supervisor: D Manderson
Panel: M Zagor, F Jenkins
Topic: Australia and the aliens power: A history of the Commonwealth's power over 'aliens' in s 51(9) of the Constitution
Supervisor: K Rubenstein
Panel: F Wheeler
Topic: The role of law in constructing identity
Supervisor: M Thornton
Panel: W Morgan, R Kennedy
Topic: Dobbing in the APS - A hole in the statute or a glass ceiling? A comparative analysis of public sector statutory regimes and the obligation to report a breach
Supervisor: K Rubenstein
Panel: J McMillan, S McCrystel
Topic: The relationship between liability of public authorities for ‘unlawful’ and ‘wrongful’ conduct
Supervisor: P Cane
Panel: L McDonald and M Lunney (University of New England)
Topic: Enforcement of crimes of universal jurisdiction in the absence of traditional jurisdictional nexuses - state, regional and international practice in bringing individuals to justice
Supervisor: H Nasu
Panel: R McLaughlin, S Heathcote
Topic: Article 38(1) (c) Statute of the International Court of Justice
Supervisor: D Rothwell
Panel: K Rubenstein, T Faunce
Topic: Marine bioprospecting: International law, Indonesia and sustainable development
Supervisor: M Rimmer, D Rothwell
Panel: D Fitzpatrick, A Hemmings
Topic: Examining concepts of 'culture' in sentencing in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Mark Nolan
Panel: Prof Nicolas Peterson; Dr Anthony Connolly; Dr Sarah Holcome
Topic: A Justice-Inspired Analysis of the Role of International Law in Relation to Climate Change-Induced Displacement
Supervisor: Matthew Zagor
Panel: Don Anton, Lorraine Elliott
Topic: Accountability in health care
Supervisor: P Cane
Panel: J Reason, S Hill, W Runciman
Topic: Public health, law and paramedicine.
Supervisor: M Eburn
Panel: T Faunce, D Dalla-Pozza
Topic: A new vision of gender justice and collective consciousness in international law
Supervisor: K Rubenstein
Panel: M Nolan, A Billingsley, UNSW
Topic: A unified theory of expectation relief
Supervisor: P Ridge
Panel: J Davis, J Dietrich
Topic: Japanese Labour Law and Society
Supervisor: K Anderson
Panel: S Bronitt
Topic: Value pluralism and corporate moral agency
Supervisor: S Bottomley
Panel: K Hall, S Miller
Topic: Marine Renewable Energy: designing a legal and policy framework for an enemerging renewable energy industry
Supervisor: J Prest
Panel: D Leary, A Macintosh
Topic: Australia's Immigration Detention Health Care Reforms: An analysis of DIAC's health care policies post Palmer-Comrie Reports - Does it place a duty of care on the Commonwealth Government?
Supervisor: M Zagor
Panel: K Boreham
