Programme Director
Dr Danielle Celermajer
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Project Officer
Thomas Soem

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Academic Co-ordinators

HRTD6901 - Human Rights Norms and Mechanisms I

Dr Kiran Grewal
Lecturer of Socio-Legal Studies
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Dr Grewal is a qualified lawyer who has worked both in Sydney and internationally in the areas of immigration, human rights and international criminal law. Her current research interests include transitional justice and international legal institutions, international feminist theory and activism, human rights, gender and nationalism, immigration, diaspora and postcolonial theory.

Dr Alexandre Lefebvre
Lecturer in Human Rights and Philosophy
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Dr Lefebvre’s work is in jurisprudence and modern political thought. His main research interest is judgment, both as such and in the judicial process. His current book project is titled Law and the Ordinary: Judicial Activism and the Problem of Judgment. Here he draws on Stanley Cavell, J.L. Austin, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in order to see what the discourse of judicial activism, especially as it is used by judges, can tell us about rule following, legal scepticism, and the nature of accusation..

HRTD6902 - Human Rights and Democratisation Research

Dr Elisabeth Riedl
Lecturer of Human Rights, Director of Internships
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Dr Riedl’s research has focussed on fair trade in coffee with particularly emphasis on the smallholder coffee sector in Papua New Guinea (PNG). More recently she is extending her research focus to include a survey of smallholder cooperatives in PNG and to examine sustainability initiatives in the context of corporate social responsibility arguments. She is teaching into the curriculum of both the Masters of Human Rights (coordinating the Internship and Dissertation programs) and the Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation (teaching a methods unit). 

HRTD6903 - Dynamics of Human Rights Violations

Dr Danielle Celermajer
Director, Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific Regional Program)
Director, Master of Human Rights
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The key research question that motivates all of Dr Celermajer’s specific research endeavours is, “What are the principles and practices required to construct socially just political communities in the context of diversity (religious, racial, economic, ethnic and political) and in the light of historical violations?” To this end, she focuses on international human rights law and institutions and their domestic application, the negotiation of difference within global and local contexts, and mechanisms for dealing with violations in the past (truth commissions, apologies, international criminal law). Currently, she is working on the interface between religious and secular discourses in the area of human rights, the hegemony of human rights as a moral language and the implications of such hegemony for human rights practice and theory. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

HRTD6904 - Democratisation: Theory and Practice

Dr Adrian H. Hearn
Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences
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Dr Hearn’s research examines the political and cultural implications of China’s deepening engagement with Latin America.  His theoretical focus is on the role of social capital in social inclusion and exclusion, democratisation, and civil society formation.  Adrian has conducted research in Cuba (3 years), Mexico (1 year), Senegal (1 years), and China (1 year).