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Hilary Charlesworth
BA LLB (Melb),
SJD (Harv)
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Hilary Charlesworth is Professor and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University.
She was educated at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School. She has taught at the universities of Melbourne and Adelaide and has been a visiting professor at Washington & Lee School of Law, Harvard Law School and the Global Law Faculty at New York University.
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Madelaine Chiam
BA LLB (Melb),
LLM (Toronto)
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Madelaine Chiam joined the ANU Law Faculty in November 2002 as a Research Fellow with the Centre for International and Public Law and as a lecturer in the Faculty.
Madelaine holds Arts and Law degrees from the University of Melbourne and completed her Master of Laws at the University of Toronto in 2002. Previously (1996-1999), Madelaine was a commercial litigation lawyer with Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne. In 1995, she worked as research associate for the then Director of the Centre for International and Public Law, Professor Philip Alston, with whom she edited the book Treaty-Making and Australia: Globalisation versus Sovereignty? (1995).
Madelaine’s research interests include human rights, in particular the intersection between human rights and development, as well as the roles of international law and international institutions in development.
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Devika Hovell
BA LLB (Hons),
LLM (NYU)
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Devika Hovell is a lecturer in international humanitarian law and international advocacy at the University of New South Wales, and co-ordinates the International Moot program. She is a Director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
Devika graduated with first class honours in law from the University of Western Australia in 1998, and a Master of Laws from New York University in 2001, specializing in international and human rights law. Devika practised in litigation and commercial law at Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks (now Allens Arthur Robinson) prior to taking up a position as Associate to Justice Hayne at the High Court of Australia. Upon completion of her Masters, Devika was the legal assistant to Professor Alain Pellet, Special Rapporteur on Reservations to Treaties, at the 53rd session of the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva. She then moved to the Hague to take up a position as Associate to the Judges on the International Court of Justice.
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George Williams
BA LLB (Macq),
GradDip Legal Practice (UTS, Syd),
LLM (UNSW),
PhD (ANU)
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George Williams is the Anthony Mason Professor and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. He has held visiting positions as the Laskin Professor of Public Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto and at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia University Law School, New York.
George is the author of books including A Bill of Rights for Australia (2000), Human Rights Under the Australian Constitution (1999) and Australian Constitutional Law and Theory: Commentary and Materials (3rd ed 2002, with Tony Blackshield), and is an editor of The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (2001).
George also practises as a barrister and has appeared in High Court cases raising issues such as freedom of communication, freedom from racial discrimination and the separation of powers. In 2001 he appeared in the Court of Appeal of Fiji in Fiji v Prasad, in which the 1997 Fijian Constitution was upheld. He has been employed as a consultant by organisations including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Federal Parliament.
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