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Melbourne Legal Theory Workshop & Research Student Symposium Speakers Jenny Beard
is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law Faculty. Her research interests include law and development, legal theory and legal practice. For the purposes of her paper, it
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s probably also useful to know that Jenny practises law at the Victorian Bar. She has written a book called
The Political Economy of Desire: International Law, Development and the Nation State,
which is being published this week.
Hilary Charlesworth
is a Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, Australian National University. She also holds an appointment as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law, ANU and is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. Her research interests are in international legal theory and post-conflict state-building.
Megan Donaldson
has completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne. She has just finished a history honours thesis entitled
‘Remains of Revolution: Representations of Mass Violence in the Aftermath of the
Vendée, 1794
–99’. She was a member of the student
-edited
Melbourne Journal of International Law
from 2001
–
2004, and an Editor in 2005. In 2006 she has been a Research Fellow in the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne.
Costas Douzinas
will step down as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London and will hopefully have a long and relaxing year after that. His new books
Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
(Routledge) and
Adieu Derrida
(Palgrave Macmillan) will be published early next year.
Ian Duncanson
has taught in universities in the UK and Australia and has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Edinburgh, Cardiff and most recently at the University of British Columbia, in the Australian Studies Centre and the Faculty of Law. His conference papers and publications have been in the areas of legal and social theory, legal education and law and history. He is currently Research Associate at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Sociolegal Studies Research Centre, Griffith Law School.
Prue Elletson
has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and is currently finishing her Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne. Her Arts studies focused on geography and politics, and in 2005 she completed a cultural geography thesis exploring the bordering of Australia using migration law and popular discourse. Prue works as a researcher at the Victorian Law Reform Commission, having previously held research posts in areas such as native title law, criminal law and social activism.
Hassan El Menyawi
is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Law and Human Rights at the University for Peace, and is currently visiting the University of Pennsylvania Law School and will be Distinguished Kemp Visiting Professor at Davidson College. He received an LLM in International Law from Osgoode Hall Law
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School; an LLB (common law) and BCL (civil law) from McGill Law School; and a BSc in psychology from McGill University. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before his appointment at Harvard Law School, he was teaching human rights at York University. He is the co-founder and associate editor of the
Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
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Fleur Johns
is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, teaching and conducting research mainly in public international law. Fleur is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (BA, LLB (Hons)) and Harvard Law School (LLM, SJD) and a member of the New York Bar, where she practised law for six years, specializing in international project finance. Fleur is a member of the Editorial Boards of the
Leiden Journal of International Law
(co-editor, Articles) and the
Australian Journal of Human Rights
, a former member of the Editorial Board of the
Sydney Law Review
(which she will shortly be rejoining) and a former Primary Editor of the
Harvard Human Rights Journal
. Fleur has also worked with a number of other non-governmental and international organizations in Australia and elsewhere. Awards of which Fleur has been the recipient include the Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University, a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship to the United Kingdom, and the Laylin Prize at Harvard Law School. She has published in Australia, North America and Europe.
Vivek (Vik) Kanwar
is a JSD Candidate at NYU School of Law, currently teaching at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. Vik was born in Nigeria and raised in the United States. He is currently completing
‘
The Politics of Necessity: Discourses and Doctrines of Exception in International Law
,’
a dissertation under the direction of Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Martti Koskenniemi. He holds an LLM from NYU, a JD from Northeastern University, and a BA (Hons) in Social and Critical Theory from New College. While living in New York for many years researching issues on the regulation of violence in international law, he also studied with a number of continental philosophers including Ernesto Laclau and the late Jacques Derrida. In October 2004,
he spoke at a memorial service among Derrida’s long
-time students. Vik has been a Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center on International Cooperation, and a Program Assistant at the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU. He has published in legal and interdisciplinary journals including
Critical Sense
(Special Issue on States of Emergency),
The International Journal of Constitutional Law
(
I-CON
), and the
Review of Law and Social Change
. In his spare time, he buys more books than he can read, and reads the same two books every night to his seven month old daughter Zazie.
Martti Koskenniemi
is Member of the International Law Commission (UN) and Professor with the Academy of Finland. He has also been Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki since in 1995. Before that, he worked as Counsellor for Legal Affairs at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. He has represented Finland at numerous international bodies, among them the UN General Assembly and the Security Council. He has also litigated with the International Court of Justice.
Professor Koskenniemi’s research interests have focused on the theory and history
of international law. His main works are
From Apology to Utopia. The Structure of International Legal Argument
(reissue with a new epilogue 2005) and
The Gentle Civilizer of Nations. The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960
(2001). In addition, he has written on human rights, collective security, and economic sanctions, as well as on various aspects of legal theory and the history of international law.
Cressida Limon
is a lecturer in the Law School at Victoria University, Melbourne and a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. Cressida recently returned to Australia after a year as an exchange student working with
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Professor Donna Haraway in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. Cressida is currently working on her PhD thesis which is entitled
‘
Genes, biotechnology and legal
imaginings’
. The research questions current approaches to inventiveness via an examination of diverse patents in the areas of biotechnology and medical research (eg, transgenic animals, genetics, medical treatments) in relation to narratives of technoscientific progress.
Sonja Litz
currently works with AusAID and has recently returned from living on a police and military base in Solomon Islands, where she worked as legal and policy adviser to the Participating Police Force, Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (she worked in 2003 to help design and deploy the RAMSI mission). Prior to this she worked for a short time with the police deployment to Papua New Guinea as part of the Enhanced Cooperation Program. She has given international humanitarian law advice to the Australian Government in relation to its deployment to Iraq, in particular the effect of Australia's International Criminal Court obligations on that deployment. She has also worked with the Australian Department of Defence on UN peace operations and arms control.
William MacNeil
is an Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Born in Canada, Dr MacNeil holds degrees in law from Dalhousie, London and Columbia Universities and in literature from the University of Toronto. He has worked and/or taught at the Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, before emigrating to Australia in 1998. At Griffith Law School, Dr MacNeil teaches Jurisprudence, Criminal Law and Legal Fictions: Representations of Law in Cinema, Philosophy and Literature. In 2001-2002 he was the Loewenstein Visiting Fellow in Jurisprudence at Amherst College, Amherst, Ma, USA. Dr MacNeil has published widely in the fields of jurisprudence, legal history and cultural legal studies. His book,
Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture
will be published early in 2007 by Stanford University Press. At present, Dr MacNeil is writing a book on the relationship between legal theory and the nineteenth century novel.
Shaun McVeigh
is a senior lecturer in the school of law at Griffith University. His research interests include the regulation of the dying, legal relations between the living and the dead, and the jurisprudence of jurisdiction. He has recently edited a book,
Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction
, that will be published by UCL Press in 2007.
Naz K Modirzadeh
is Senior Associate at the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, where she manages the International Humanitarian Law and Middle East portfolios. She previously worked for Human Rights Watch, and later served as Assistant Professor and Director of the International Human Rights Law MA Program at the American University in Cairo. She has carried out field research and training in the Middle East, Europe, and Afghanistan. Naz has published policy and monitoring reports on torture, the application of IHL in Iraq, and legal reform and Islamic law in Afghanistan. Her primary research is on the intersections between Islamic law, IHL, human rights law and the practitioners who work within and between these disciplines. She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and her JD from Harvard Law School. Her most recent publication
is ‘
Taking Islamic Law Seriously: INGOs and the Battle for Muslim Hearts and Minds,
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in the
Harvard Human Rights Journal
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Ed Mussawir
is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. With interests in jurisprudence, legal history and culture, his research has centred around the concept of jurisdiction as a theme for analyzing the forms and modes of legal power through speech and desire. To these forms, he is interested in
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