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Daniel Joyce
Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (ANU); LLM, PhD (Cambridge)
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Brief overview
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 involved in a longer term project with Dr Jessie Hohmann of Queen Mary, London on International Law's Objects. He is currently writing a monograph entitled Informed Publics, Media and International Law (Hart, forthcoming 2020).
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 law&history, Big Data & Society, the European Journal of International Law, the London Review of International Law and the Melbourne Journal of 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.
Areas of expertise
International Law; Media Law; Human Rights; International Legal Theory; Law and Humanities
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Memberships
Affiliated Research Fellow, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki
Director of Research
Member of the Academic Review Board, Cambridge Journal of International Law
Member of the Editorial Review Board, Queen Mary Human Rights Law Review
Member, ESIL and ANZSIL
Member, UNSW Media Research Network
Research supervision
Supervisor with Dr Greg Weeks and Professor Simon Halliday - Jason Donnelly, "Reshaping Separation of Powers in Australia - the Non-Justiciable Nature of the National Interest" (UNSW Law) - completed 2018
Supervisor with Professor Ramaswami Harindranath and Professor Kath Albury - Zahra Stardust, "Queer, feminist and independent pornography in Australia: Law, Sexuality, Regulation" (UNSW Arts & Social Sciences)
Supervisor with Professor Jill Hunter and Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses - Alexandre Fleck Soares Brandao, "Social Media and the Courts" (UNSW Law - Scientia PhD)
Supervisor with Professor Jill Hunter and Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses - Jayne O'Connor, "Social Media and the Courts" (UNSW Law - Scientia PhD)
I welcome research proposals in the areas of: international law; media law; human rights and international legal theory.
Grants
Early Career Research Support Scheme, UNSW Law, 2011
Workshop Funding Support, UNSW Law, 2015-16
Courses taught
- Media Law: General Principles (LAWS3221)
- Media Law: General Principles (JURD7421)
- Defamation and the Media (LAWS8014)
- Defamation and the Media (JURD7514)
- Media and Human Rights (LAWS8162)
- Media and Human Rights (JURD7462)
- Law in the Global Context (LAWS2270)
- Law in the Global Context (JURD7270)
Media mentions
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16 February 2016
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4 November 2015