Current APCML Research Students

Roisin Burke

Maddy Chiam

Theis title: "War-Talk – A Social and Intellectual History of War as Law"

Britt Conidi

Thesis title: "Enabling International Criminal Trials to Benefit Victim Communities in the Aftermath of Mass Violence"

Sarah Finnin

Thesis title: "Complicity & Participation in International Crimes"

Anna Hood

Anna holds a BA/LLB (first class hons) from the University of Melbourne and an LLM (International Legal Studies) from New York University. She has worked as a lawyer in Australia and Uganda and has worked on arms control and disarmament issues for at think tank in Washington D.C. She is currently a teaching fellow at the Melbourne Law School.

Anna’s research focuses on Security Council legislation, that is, Security Council resolutions that create or modify states’ international legal obligations. She aims to deepen the scholarship surrounding legislative Council resolutions and develop fresh perspectives on the Council’s legislative activity. In order to do this she is employing domestic and international legal theories and principles, historical enquiries and literature that explores the concepts of emergency, risk and speed to produce new understandings of the Security Council’s legislative phase. Her thesis is entitled "Understanding Security Council Legislation: legal, historical and theoretical perspectives on the rise of the Security Council's legislative phase".

Magda Karagiannakis

Theis title: "Corporate Officials and International Criminal Law"

Jonathan Kolieb

Thesis title: "Corporate Peace-building: How governments can encourage corporations to become partners in preventing and resolving international armed conflicts"

Michelle Lesh

Michelle Lesh holds a BA/LLB (Hons) from Monash University. She has worked at B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organisation, and as a foreign law clerk to President (ret.) Aharon Barak at the Supreme Court of Israel. She has taught on the history of the Arab/Israeli conflict at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University.

Michelle’s PhD thesis analyses Israel’s policy of targeted killing, which became state policy in November 2000. Her primary research question is: is Israel in breach of international humanitarian law in pursuing this policy? That raises further questions about how to classify the conflict; the meaning of ‘direct participation in hostilities’ in provisions relating to ‘civilian’; how to determine when the principle of proportionality and precautions in attack have been violated; and whether there are further restraints on targeted killings such as a requirement to arrest whenever it is possible and to investigate targeted killings after the fact. The thesis investigates these difficult matters of law and assesses, from a jurisprudential perspective, whether international law is sufficiently sensitive to the political and legal complexities of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It is entitled: "Israel's Policy of Targeted Killing and International Humanitarian Law."

Sasha Radin

Thesis title: "Network Warfare: Implications under International Humanitarian Law"

Jennifer Rowe

Jennifer's thesis is entitled “The regulatory framework of Cambodia’s compulsory rehabilitation centres: incorporating human rights and public health evidence." She is supervised by Tim McCormack and Jeremy Gans from the Law School; and Nick Crofts from the Nossal Institute.

Jennifer holds an LLB (Honours) and BA (Honours Italian) from the Australian National University. For both her honours theses, she focused on international humanitarian law and international human rights law, particularly on the question of humanitarian intervention, before moving to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies headquarters in Geneva where she was responsible for a project looking at national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ health work in prisons.

As a result, Jennifer became familiar with the whole world of substance use in compulsory settings and her PhD takes the discussion to Cambodia where she examines substance use in compulsory rehabilitation centres, with a specific look at how to incorporate human rights and public health evidence into the law. Jennifer’s thesis is also part of a wider Australian Research Council Linkage Project, in collaboration between The University of Melbourne and the Australian Red Cross.