Visiting Fellows

The Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law will consider applications from suitable applicants for appointment as Visiting Fellows. Visiting Fellowships are awarded for periods ranging from one month to twelve months.

At this stage of its development, the Centre does not offer stipendiary fellowships. Although the Centre does not directly fund Visiting Fellows, in appropriate cases it will support applications for funding from Australian or overseas agencies.

The Centre provides Visiting Fellows with fully equipped office accommodation, computers, IT support, Internet connections, access to the extensive conventional and electronic holdings of the network of University of Queensland Libraries, administrative support and other normal academic privileges. Above all, Visiting Fellows have the opportunity of interacting with a thriving research community in the fields of public law, international law, comparative law and legal philosophy. The Centre is an ideal station for scholars on sabbatical who wish to research within these fields of interest.

The number of Visiting Fellowships awarded at any time will depend on available resources. The final decision on the appointment of Visiting Fellows rests with the Head of the T C Beirne School of Law.

Visitors for 2024

Yongjeong Lee
Yongjeong Lee is a Public Prosecutor of South Korea, currently serving at the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office. He graduated with honors from Kyunghee University Law School, obtaining a Juris Doctor degree.

With a decade of experience as a prosecutor, he has handled a wide range of criminal cases, including financial crimes and corruption. During his career, he dedicated significant time to legal research and studying case precedents. In particular, he has shown a deep interest in researching the confiscation system of criminal gains and continues to conduct research aimed at improving South Korea's confiscation system.

Visitors for 2022

Mr. Vaclav Slavicek - Czech Republic

Mr. Slavicek graduated with a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) in 1992. He has been practising as a Czech attorney at law since 1997 and is a member of the Czech Bar Association as well as of Law Societies of New South Wales and Queensland (Australia). Mr. Slavicek is also an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic.

His professional profile contains rich general legal practice including criminal, business and civil laws within their both material and legal procedure forms. Except for mentioned general attorney practice, during the last two decades, he has been appointed as a head of legal restructuring regarding projects in various areas of business in the Czech Republic and Romania. In 2018 Mr. Slavicek has established legal cooperation between Australian and Czech law firms setting a goal to offer the most effective and affordable way to meet legal tasks of Czech minorities in Australia in both Czech and Australian issues, as well as of business subjects operating on Australia - European Union common market.

From a professional-scientific point of view, Mr. Slavicek has long devoted himself to criminal law, which is his favourite professional specialization in law practice. Since 2019 he has been a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, the Department of Criminal Law. The topic of his dissertation is aspects of the statute of limitations for ongoing and continuing crimes and the comparison of legal regulations with Anglo-Saxon law.

Read Statue of Limitations in Criminal matters – Czech Republic and Queensland

Hon Justice Minoh Kwon - Republic of South Korea

Minoh Kwon is a visiting scholar at the TC Beirne School of Law. He has worked as a judge for ten years in Korea after six years experiences of a prosecutor. Especially he has a three-year of experience as a judicial researcher in the Supreme Court of Korea, where he contributed to many important decisions in civil and criminal cases. He is now in charge of criminal trials in Daegu District Court.

Judge Minoh Kwon at CPICL morning tea — Judge Kwon at Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law morning tea

Obligations of Visiting Fellows

Visiting Fellows are expected to meet the following obligations:

Pursue the research project outlined in their applications or other research in consultation with the Director;
Participate in the Centre's activities as a member of the Centre;
Present at least one seminar on research in progress;
Suitably acknowledge the membership of the Centre in any publication, conference paper or research report that results from research done wholly or partly at the Centre or with the Centre's support; and
Inform the Director of any publication, conference paper or research report that results from research done wholly or partly at the Centre or with the Centre's support

Applications

Written applications for Visiting Fellowships must be accompanied by the following:

A Curriculum Vitae;
A bibliography of published work;
A research proposal outlining the research project to be pursued at the Centre; and
Sources of funding available to the applicant (sabbatical entitlements, grants, scholarships, private funding etc.)

Note: This is a research, not a teaching, fellowship.

Applications must be received at least 3 months before the proposed date of commencement of the Fellowship. Applications should be mailed or emailed to:

Professor Anthony Cassimatis
Director CPICL
T.C. Beirne School of Law
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072
Australia
a.cassimatis@law.uq.edu.au