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Christopher Michaelsen

Research Fellow
Convenor, International Law and Policy Group

Dipl.Jur. (Hamburg), LLM (UQ)


Contact Details

Telephone: +61 2 9385 3721
Email: c.michaelsen@unsw.edu.au
Office: Law Building 227


Publications

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Overview

Christopher Michaelsen is a Research Fellow at the UNSW Law Faculty. He teaches and specialises in human rights, public international law and international security. Before joining UNSW, he served as a Human Rights Officer (Anti-Terrorism) at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Warsaw, Poland. He has previously worked for the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs in New York City, and at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra where he also submitted a PhD thesis in 2009. He has also served as a consultant for the Asian Law Group in Semarang, Indonesia, and for the Center for Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in New York City. Chris is the convenor of the Law School’s International Law & Policy Group and a member of the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law.


Courses Taught

LAWS4080
LAWS4087
LAWS4110


Research Interests

Human Rights, Public International Law, German and Comparative Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice, Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism


Current Research Projects

The UN Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Regime
National Security, Non-Refoulement and Diplomatic Assurances
International Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: Future Directions and Challenges
The Proportionality Principle in Constitutional and Administrative Law