Higher Degree by Research students and projects
We have 47 Higher Degree by Research students. They include full-time, part-time, local and remote, domestic and international candidates. 45 are working on PhDs and 2 on MPhil theses.
Current students, their projects and advisors
Name | Project | Supervisor |
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Laurensia Andrini | Accommodating Computer-Generated Works into Indonesia Copyright Law: Challenges and Possibilities | Dr Allison Fish Dr Xan Chacko |
Nicolas Augoustinos | Principles of cultural heritage law and the international guardianship of the Greek Orthodox heritage |
Professor Craig Forrest |
Anthony Austin | Negotiating the Relationship between Contract Law and Kastom Law in the South Pacific | Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin Professor Rick Bigwood |
Sruthi Balaji | The Repatriation of Plant Products: What Should be Repatriated and How? | Professor Brad Sherman Dr Alison Fish |
Rebecca Barber | The Competence of the UN General Assembly to Better Respond to Conflict-Related Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises |
Professor Anthony Cassimatis |
Hayley Beevers | Utilising Injury Scale Values to Achieve More Equitable and Principled Decision-Making in Access Requests to the National Disability Insurance Scheme | Professor John Devereux Dr Iain Field |
Jocelyn Bosse | The Role of the Law in the Circulation of the Kakadu Plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana) | Professor Brad Sherman Dr Allison Fish Dr Susannah Chapman |
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria | The responsibility of states to prevent atrocity crimes | Professor Anthony Cassimatis Professor Alexander Bellamy Dr Eve Massingham |
Trudie Broderick | A Place at the Table: Queer Indigenous Women in Australian Health Law and Policy | Professor Heather Douglas Dr Carmen Prater Dr Nicole Watson |
Tad Brown | Intellectual property and Peanuts | Professor Brad Sherman Dr Xan Sarah Chacko |
Phoebe Burgess | Moving Forward with Fairness: Just Transition, Decarbonisation and Australian Industrial Relations | Professor Graeme Orr A/Prof Justine Bell-James |
Theodore Butcher-Cornet | The Potential of Treaty Making in Re-ordering Indigenous-State Relations: Towards Indigenous Emancipation from the Australian Colonial Order? | Dr Dylan Lino Professor Peter Billings |
Adam Chernok | Big Brother's New Toys: Regulation of contemporary covert and coercive policing methods in Australia | Professor Simon Bronitt |
Renato Saeger Magalhães Costa | The Elements of Constitutionalism and the Pseudo-Constitution: Beyond the Ontological Classification of Constitutions | Professor Nicholas Aroney Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh |
Andrew Curtin | Understanding Law as a Maclntyrean 'Practice' | Professor Nick Aroney Dr Rob Mullins |
Lorraine Finlay | The universal franchise: the protection of voting rights under the Australian Constitution | Professor James Allan Professor Nicholas Aroney |
Mark Fowler | Church and state relations and the tax exemption and charitable endorsement of religious institutions in Australia | Professor Nicholas Aroney Professor Gino Evan dal Pont |
Laurel Fox | Representative Democracy and Political Constitutionalism in Practice: Opposition to Indigenous Representative Bodies in Australia |
Professor Graeme Orr |
Terefe Gebreyesus | Constitutional Approach to Diversity: Comparative Analysis | Professor Nicholas Aroney Dr Caitlin Goss |
Zoran Gelic | The Source, Nature and Limits of a Duty to Act Reasonably in Australian Contract Law | Professor Rick Bigwood Dr Ryan Catterwell |
Denis Gibson | Rationality, Convention and Opinion: David Hume's Theory of Constitutional Evolution | Professor James Allan Dr Simon Kennedy |
Rosemary Gibson |
Express termination for breach clauses in commercial contracts: the legal nature and operational mechanics of such clauses under Australian law |
Professor Rick Bigwood |
Helen Gregorczuk | Fair collection of personal information by retailers using big data analytics | Dr Alan Davidson Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh |
William Isdale | Native title compensation in Australia | Adjunct Professor Jonathan Fulcher Adjunct Professor the Hon. Justice Andrew Greenwood |
Elizabeth Jameson | The unitary implementation of corporate governance in Australia and its continuing relevance and fitness for purpose | Professor David Morrison Dr Vicki Comino |
Craig Jensen | International obligations and human rights in Australian Extradition | Professor Anthony Cassimatis Professor Ned Aughterson |
Sarah Kendall | Non-Fatal Strangulation Victim-Witnesses, Brain Injury and PTSD: Perspectives from Prosecutors and Defence Counsel | Dr Caitlin Goss A/Prof Robin Fitzgerald Professor Heather Douglas |
Caroline Law-Walsh | A model national legal framework for mangrove ecosystem services: a comparative analysis of existing legal recognition of ecosystem services for wetlands in the United States and Vietnam | A/Prof Justine Bell-James Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin |
Constance Lee | Calvinist natural law and constitutionalism | Professor Nicholas Aroney Professor Jonathan Crowe |
Joanne Lee | Natural Law and the Calvinist Usury Doctrine: From Forbidden Sin to Natural Property Right |
Professor Nicholas Aroney |
Hamish Macdonald | Inventing DNA: Exploring the patent system's conceptualisation of novel genetic products | Professor Brad Sherman Professor Simon Bronitt |
Salwa Marsh | We the People? Exploring Electoral Exceptions from the Perspective of Theories of Constituent Power | Professor Nick Aroney Professor James Allan |
Rachel McDonald | A Critical Review and Analysis of the Human Right and Legal Entitlement of Australian Women to Breastfeed on their Return to Work: A Comparative Legal Study of Australia, United States and Ireland | A/Prof Fran Bartlett A/ Prof Paul Harpur |
Unaisi Narawa-Daurewa | Indigenous Identity in Fiji: Na Vanua, Na Lawa, Na Kawa Ni Bobula. | Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin Professor Reid Grant Mortensen |
Thi Nong | Sustainable protection of fish biodiversity in the Mekong River: the role of international environmental law, and lessons from Australia | A/Prof Justine Bell-James Associate Professor Peter Billings |
Kencho Peldon | Control of Cotton in Colonial India: Early Legal Regulation of Plant Intellectual Property |
Professor Bradley Sherman |
Anne Pickering | A framework for property law reform and development within legal pluralism: Adopting an innovative approach | Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin Professor Richard Bigwood Professor Daniel Joseph Fitzpatrick |
Helen Punter | Therapeutic policing: police as therapeutic agents | Professor Simon Bronitt Associate Professor Tamara Walsh |
Jessica Ritchie | The Use of DNA in Cross-Border Investigations: From Crisis to Confidence | Professor Simon Bronitt Dr Enshen Li |
Liza Rolim-Baggio | Policy and Regulatory Dimensions of Resilience-Based Management in the Great Barrier Reef | Dr Pedro Fidelman A/Prof Justine Bell-James |
Luis Sanchez Fernandez | The Legal Theory of Jeremy Waldron and the Limits of Legal Positivism | Dr Robert Mullins Professor James Allan |
Chris Sauer | Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture | Professor Brad Sherman Dr Allison Fish Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa |
Anthony Shaw | The Chrysanthemum Throne: The Influence of the Emperor and Nationalism on Gender Discrimination in Japanese Law | A/Prof Ann Black A/Prof David Chapman |
Shaun Star | Resolving Anti-Doping Disputes: Does the Current Framework Promote Procedural Fairness and Equality in India? | A/Prof Sarah Jane Kelly Prof Jack Anderson |
John Story | Which of the Duties of Directors are Fiduciary? | Professor Christopher Barker Professor James Edelman |
Samuel Walpole | The Corporate Criminal Liability of Shipowners and Operators in the Event of Maritime Casualty | Professor Craig Forrest Emeritus Professor Sarah Derrington |
Renato Wolf | Reviewing legal and policy compliance of autonomous weapons systems | A/Prof Rain Liivoja Dr Robert Mullins |
Recently graduated HDR student projects
Name |
Project Title |
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Sarah Asokendaran | Harmonisation of unconventional gas resources (UGR) regulatory frameworks in Australia: is there a will or a way? |
Victoria Baumfield |
Locating the Public in Australian Public Enterprise: Reinforcing the Public Objectives and Public Accountability of Australian Government-Owned Businesses |
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan |
Promoting and Protecting the Right to Religious Freedom of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh |
Ana Borges | Migration and domestic violence: Women's experiences of proving domestic violence as a requirement for permanent residency |
Samuel Boyle | Capacity and Treatment Refusal: How law does and should deal with the case of Anorexia Nervosa? |
Mirza Buana |
State Courts, Traditional Dispute Resolution and Indigenous Peoples in South Kalimantan: A Socio-Legal Study |
Imogen Colvin |
The Charging Decision: Accountability, Transparency, and Control of the Decision to Prosecute |
Mark Deng | Constitutional Transformations: Failure and Opportunity in Post-Independence South Sudan. |
Andrew Fell | Developing a Descriptive Approach to Legal Taxonomy |
Sonia Patricia Esteves Pais da Fonseca |
Challenging the Efficacy of No-Drop Prosecution Policies in Domestic Violence Cases: A Comparative Legal Analysis |
David Galbraith |
An Historico-Legal Study of the Defamation Act, 1958 (NSW) |
Ryan Haddrick |
The Queen's Ministers of State for the Commonwealth: The Relationship between the Prerogatives of the Crown and the Executive Power of the Commonwealth |
David Jefferson |
Experimenting with the Governance of Plants as Intellectual Property: Limitations of Lawmaking and the Ecuadorian Experience |
Jennifer Jude | Registration, recording and noting of native title in Australia |
Henry Kha |
The Reform of English Divorce Law: 1857-1937 |
Scott Kiel-Chisholm | Civil Liability Challenges for the Law and Neural Interface Devices: Reconceptualising the Law |
Katrina Kluss | Towards the Ideal in a Non-Ideal World: the case for assigning juridical personhood to nonhuman animals in Australia |
Joseph Lelliott | Smuggling of unaccompanied minors |
Paul Mae |
Solomon Islands' Constitutional Dilemma: Local Participation, Customary Law and Traditional Institutions of Governance |
Thi Kim Hue Mai |
Securing Freedom of Information in Vietnamese Government and Law |
Eve Massingham |
The obligation to respect and to ensure respect in all circumstances pursuant to Common Article 1 of the Four Geneva Conventions of August 1949 and Additional Protocols I and III: an Australian weapons law perspective |
Irna Nurhayati |
The Implementation of the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Selected Southeast Asian Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis and Evaluation |
Benjamin Saunders |
A Government for a Sovereign People: The Expectations and Intentions of the Framers of the Australian Constitution regarding Responsible Government |
Emily Steel |
The right choice? An interpretive policy analysis of assistive technology in Australian disability services |
Peta Stephenson |
Measuring the Metes and Bounds of Commonwealth Executive Power: Nationhood and Section 61 of the Constitution |
Brooke Thompson | Navigating dual legal systems: Islamic inheritance law in Australia’s secular legal framework |
Karma Tshering | Self-Represented Defendants in Criminal Trials: A Comparative Study between Australia and Bhutan |
Ruth Walker |
Child Death, Neglect & Criminal Responsibility: The (In)adequacy of the Law of Homicide in Australia in Cases of Child Fatality Resulting from Parental Neglect |
Pan Mohamad Faiz Kusuma Wijaya |
The Role of the Constitutional Court in Securing Constitutional Government in Indonesia |
Garth Wooler |
Lifting the Veil of Autonomy: Unconscionable Conduct as Grounds for Injunctive Relief in Australia and Singapore - A Study in the Context of Independent Trade Finance Instruments |
Yan Xuan | China's maritime arbitration system's 'Selective Adaption' to international legal norms and practice |
Yu (Molly) Yao |
Comparative analysis on legal conflicts from allocation of risks in the emission reduction purchase agreement (ERPA) reforming mechanism conducive to coexistence of interests in the conflict of laws |
Behnaz Zarrabi |
The Law of Exorcism: A Comparative Study of Religiously Motivated Homicide |
Hui Zhong |
Return of Chinese Cultural Relics taken from the First Opium War to the end of the Japanese Occupation (1840-1945) |
Related links
- Access the full-text of completed theses by past students
- View potential HDR projects and advisors.