Macquarie Law School’s graduate researchers

Our community consists of vibrant, diverse, and leading emerging scholars and researchers.

Below is our list of current graduate researchers and their thesis titles:

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Rose Al-Kahili – PhD

The middle ground for the missing middle: the potential and limitations of using unbundled legal services for litigants in person in the Australian federal family law system.

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Pushkar Anand – PhD

International obligations and responsibility of foreign investors: between international investment law and general international law.

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Amrithnath Sreedevi Babu – PhD

Food security, farmers’ rights and the governance of traditional knowledge in India: An equitable approach.

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Ethan Beringen – PhD

Plenty of fish in the sea? Examining the interaction between international fisheries law and international biodiversity law for the Anthropocene context.

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Lorena Bisignano – MRes

Hardening’ investors’ human rights responsibilities: decolonising development finance to guarantee human rights protection and investors’ accountability.

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Jiliang Chen – PhD

Effective governance of the global commons: the case of area based management tools/marine protected area in the high seas.

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Jiuding Cheng – MRes

Developing a legal framework for determining liability for harm generated by AI systems.

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Rosie Cole – MRes

Achieving off-grid electrification In Lao PDR – energy justice through community engagement in solar energy mini-grids.

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Peter Corne – PhD

Critical analysis of China’s biodiversity governance and prospective implementation of its COP15 commitments.

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Tatiana de Campos Aranovich – PhD

Building robust AI-based medical devices regulatory approval pathways in Australia for achieving transparency and explainability aims.

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Ha Do – PhD

Developing an effective cybersecurity legal framework for Vietnam.

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Asanka Edirisinghe – PhD

Integration of a legal personhood and rights of nature approach for the protection of rivers against pollution in Sri Lanka.

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Heike Fabig – MRes

Ableism as inherent weakness in Australian disability discrimination legislation: The twin concepts of ‘reasonable adjustment’ and ‘unjustifiable hardship’ and their inferences.

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Thomas Gibbons – PhD

Private communities and hybrid property forms: A comparative study.

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Paul Govind – PhD

The resistance of environmental law to the epistemic change of the Anthropocene – can this resistance be broken?

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Helena Angela Hanna – MRes

Stripping down the law: A rights-based approach to strip-searches of children and young people in NSW.

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Steven Kavanagh – MRes

Legal aspects and socioeconomic impact assessment of humanitarian-based business ventures: A case study of The Way Foundation's commercial mining trial in Papua New Guinea.

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Jamie ‘James’ Love – MRes

An analysis of the Northern Territory Government’s three youth diversion pathways, Back on Track, Youth Camps and Youth Diversion: is community controlled diversion enough to make real change?

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Nischala McDonnell – PhD

Implementing ecovoltaics regulation: Combining ecological regeneration with large-scale solar in New South Wales.

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Nancy Michail – PhD

An investigation into legal considerations of central bank digital currency in Australia.

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Joanna Mitchell – PhD

Children's Voices in Commonwealth Administrative Review: children's participation in administrative merits review.

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Giang Nguyen – MRes

De-banking by commercial banks in Australia and financial exclusion: Unintended consequences of AML/CTF legislation.

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Isabelle Nicolas – MRes

Considering the implications of implementing anti-money laundering obligations on the legal profession.

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Jordie Pettit – MRes

How do laws in Australia allow for changes in technology? A historical review of the Australian legislature’s ability to accommodate new technologies through regulation.

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Suman Podder – PhD

Developing a regulatory model for fintech that appropriately balances data privacy and innovation.

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Ben Scott – PhD

The evolution of deception methodologies and intelligence practice in financial crime.

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Miaomiao Yin – PhD

Governing climate change in the Antarctic: regime change of the Antarctic Treaty System.

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Yehua (Eva) Zhang – MRes

Towards a solution for copyright protection of AI-generated works: A proposed framework for navigating legal challenges.

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