Tyrone Kirchengast
Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Macq) GradDipLegPrac (ColLaw) PhD (La Trobe)Contact details
- Room:
- 325 Law Building
- Phone:
- 9385 2249
- E-mail:
- t.kirchengast@unsw.edu.au
Brief overview
Dr Tyrone Kirchengast is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UNSW. Tyrone is admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of NSW and is a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia. Before joining the Faculty of Law, Tyrone lectured at the University of Newcastle from 2003-2007, and Macquarie University from 2007-2009. Tyrone's principal teaching and research interests are in criminal law and procedure and his publications focus on the integration of victim interests within criminal law. His recent work focuses on the role of victim impact statements in sentencing homicide offenders; the rise of victim lawyers and the integration of victims into adversarial proceedings; and victim rights as human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights and before the International Criminal Court. Tyrone is the author of The Victim in Criminal Law and Justice (2006) and The Criminal Trial in Law and Discourse (2010).
Courses taught
Areas of expertise
Criminal law and procedure, criminology, sentencing and proportionality, victim rights in domestic and international law, restorative justice, Foucault, law and governance.