Dr Daniel Joyce is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at UNSW Law. His main research and teaching areas are international law and media law.  He also continues to research and publish in human rights and international legal theory.  He is especially interested in the connections between media and human rights.  He is working on a longer term project with Dr Jessie Hohmann of Queen Mary, London on International Law's Objects.

Daniel has an LLM and a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge.  He was the Whewell Scholar in international law and a Senior Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge.  He also spent a year as a Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School. Daniel then undertook postdoctoral research as the Erik Castrén Fellow in international law and human rights at the University of Helsinki, where he remains an Affiliated Research Fellow.

Daniel was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge in 2013 and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Law at the European University Institute in 2016.  Daniel is a Laureate of the Junior Faculty Forum for International Law in 2014.  He has recent publications in Big Data & Society, the European Journal of International Law, the London Review of International Law and the Melbourne Journal of International Law.  He is currently working on a book project on informed publics, the media and international law.  He is a co-author, with David Rolph, Matt Vitins and Judith Bannister, of Media Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, Second Edition (OUP, 2015).

Daniel is admitted and practises as a barrister in New South Wales.  He has a particular interest in free speech, protest and public interest litigation.  Prior to his academic career Daniel worked in criminal law as a solicitor with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in NSW.  He has also volunteered with a range of human rights NGOs.