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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: To be advised
Supervisor: K Hall
Panel: V Holmes

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

Supervisor: TBA
Panel: TBA

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: TBA
Supervisor: TBA
Panel: TBA

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

Supervisor: R McLaughlin
Panel: TBA

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: TBA
Supervisor: M Thornton
Panel: TBA

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

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