Justine Nolan

Senior Lecturer

BSc LLB(Hons) ANU, MPP University of California, Berkeley
Deputy Director, Australian Human Rights Centre
Director of Human Rights and Social Justice Programs Director of Master of Human Rights Law and Policy

Contact details

Room:

332 Law Building

Phone:

9385 2863

E-mail:

justine.nolan@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Justine Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW. She is also the Deputy Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre and the Director of Human Rights and Social Justice Programs and the Master of Human Rights Law and Policy in the Faculty of Law. Justine's research interests are focused on international human rights law and corporate responsibility and in particular accountability for corporate violations of human rights. She is the author of a number of articles on this topic. She is a co-author of a new international human rights text book (The Law of International Human Rights, OUP, 2011). She teaches international human rights law and related courses on development, globalisation and business and human rights.

Prior to joining UNSW in 2004, she worked as the Director of the Business and Human Rights program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) in the USA. This work examined ways in which to prevent and redress corporate violations of human rights. During this time Justine advised both companies and non governmental organisations on effective strategies to protect human rights in the corporate sphere and was closely involved in the establishment of the Fair Labor Association.

Justine worked with the United Nations on a number of business and human rights initiatives. She has also worked in both public interest and private legal practices. Justine is a member of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Human Rights Small Grants Scheme Expert Panel (HRSGS) which provides practical financial support for small community-based projects to promote and protect human rights in developing countries. She is also a member of NSW Legal Aid's Human Rights Panel and a member of the International Commission of Jurists Advisory Panel on its project relating to ‘Access to Justice for Corporate Violations of Human Rights’. Justine has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Adelaide and the University of Hong Kong. She is an editor of the Human Rights Defender.

Courses taught

Areas of expertise

Human Rights law, Corporate accountability, International labour law

Professional memberships and affiliations

Human Rights Defender, Co-editor