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.
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:
Pushkar Anand – PhD
International obligations and responsibility of foreign investors: between international investment law and general international law.
Amrithnath Sreedevi Babu – PhD
Food security, farmers’ rights and the governance of traditional knowledge in India: An equitable approach.
Ethan Beringen – PhD
Plenty of fish in the sea? Examining the interaction between international fisheries law and international biodiversity law for the Anthropocene context.
Allison Benson – MRes
The use of strata and community title schemes in New South Wales and Australia for the creation of intentional communities, particularly ecologically themed or sustainability focused schemes and the introduction of sustainability infrastructure into existing schemes.
Lorena Bisignano – MRes
Hardening’ investors’ human rights responsibilities: decolonising development finance to guarantee human rights protection and investors’ accountability.
Rosie Cole – PhD
Rural decarbonisation solutions in the Lao people's democratic republic: land us planning and integration for biofuels.
Peter Corne – PhD
Critical analysis of China’s biodiversity governance and prospective implementation of its COP15 commitments.
Tatiana de Campos Aranovich – PhD
Building robust AI-based medical devices regulatory approval pathways in Australia for achieving transparency and explainability aims.
Ha Do – PhD
Developing an effective cybersecurity legal framework for Vietnam.
Asanka Edirisinghe – PhD
Integration of a legal personhood and rights of nature approach for the protection of rivers against pollution in Sri Lanka.
Heike Fabig – MRes
Ableism as inherent weakness in Australian disability discrimination legislation: The twin concepts of ‘reasonable adjustment’ and ‘unjustifiable hardship’ and their inferences.
Thomas Gibbons – PhD
Private communities and hybrid property forms: A comparative study.
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.
Nischala McDonnell – PhD
Implementing ecovoltaics regulation: Combining ecological regeneration with large-scale solar in New South Wales.
Nancy Michail – PhD
An investigation into legal considerations of central bank digital currency in Australia.
Joanna Mitchell – PhD
Litigating for change: Child rights strategic litigation in Australia
Giang Nguyen – MRes
De-banking by commercial banks in Australia and financial exclusion: Unintended consequences of AML/CTF legislation.
Isabelle Nicolas – MRes
Considering the implications of implementing anti-money laundering obligations on the legal profession.
Jordie Pettit – PhD
The role of technology in the energy transition: how to make Australia a hydrogen producer and export economy.
Suman Podder – PhD
Developing a regulatory model for fintech that appropriately balances data privacy and innovation.
Anak Agung Ayu Nanda Saraswati – PhD
Improving obligations through the UN human rights mechanism: The case of freedom of religion in Indonesia
Ben Scott – PhD
The evolution of deception methodologies and intelligence practice in financial crime.
Dilini Wijesena – MRes
A comparative analysis of how access to justice is facilitated for querulous litigants in Australian tribunals.
Miaomiao Yin – PhD
Governing climate change in the Antarctic: regime change of the Antarctic Treaty System.
Yehua (Eva) Zhang – MRes
Towards a solution for copyright protection of AI-generated works: A proposed framework for navigating legal challenges.