2009

(with Hilary Charlesworth and Gabrielle McKinnon), Bills of Rights in Australia - History, Politics and Law (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009), 230pp

Catherine Renshaw, Andrew Byrnes, and Andrea Durbach, "Implementing human rights in the Pacific through the work of national human rights institutions: the experience of Fiji" (2009) 40(1) Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 251-277, also available at [2008] UNSWLRS 66, http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps08/art66

A Durbach, C Renshaw and A Byrnes, “’A Tongue But No Teeth?’ The Emergence of a New Human Rights Mechanism in the Asia Pacific Region”, (2009) 31(2) Sydney Law Review 211-238, also available at [2009] UNSWLRS 30, http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps09/art30/

2008

(with Andrea Durbach and Catherine Renshaw), "Joining the club: the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, the Paris Principles, and the advancement of human rights protection in the region" (2008) 14(1) Australian Journal of Human Rights 63-98 (working paper version available at [2008] UNSWLRS 39), http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps08/art39/

(with D Tarantola, M Johnson, L Kemp, A B Zwi and S Gruskin), "Human rights, health and human development" (2008) 13(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 1-32, http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps08/art47/

(with Eleanor Bath), "Violence against Women, the Obligation of Due Diligence, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women – Recent Developments" (2008) 8(3) Human Rights Law Review 517-533

"More Law or Less Law? The Resilience of Human Rights Law and Institutions in the 'War on Terror' in Miriam Gani and Pene Mathew (eds), Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror' (ANU E-press, 2008) 127-158, available at http://epress.anu.edu.au/war_terror/pdf/ch08.pdf

(with Gabrielle McKinnon), "The ACT Human Rights Act 2004 and the Commonwealth Anti-Terrorism Act (No 2) 2005: a triumph for federalism or a federal triumph?" in Miriam Gani and Pene Mathew (eds), Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror' (ANU E-press, 2008) 361-377, available at http://epress.anu.edu.au/war_terror/pdf/ch16.pdf

(with Catherine Renshaw and Andrea Durbach), "Implementing human rights in the Pacific through the work of national human rights institutions: the experience of Fiji" [2008 UNSWLRS 66, available at
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps08/art66

"The Disability Discrimination Ordinance, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and Beyond: Achievements and Challenges after Ten Years of Hong Kong Anti-discrimination Legislation", keynote presentation at the conference Our Ten Years under the DDO – Moving Forward, Changing Cultures, organized by the Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission, Hong Kong, 24 January 2008, [2008] UNSWLRS 13, available at http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps08/art13/.

2007

"The right to life, the death penalty and human rights law: an international and Australian perspective" in Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Confronting the Death Penalty: People, Politics and Principle (ACSJC, 2007) 26-45, also available as [2007] UNSW Law Research Series 44, available at http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps/art66/

"Drug Offences, the Death Penalty, and Indonesia's Human Rights Obligations in the case of the Bali 9: Opinion submitted to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia", [2007] UNSW Law Research Series 44, available at http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps/art44/

(with Maria Graterol and Renée Chartres), "State Obligation and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women", [2007] UNSW Law Research Series 48, available at http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps/art48/

2006

"United Nations Reform and Human Rights", in Marius Smith (ed), Human Rights 2005 - The Year in Review (Melbourne: Castan Centre for Human Rights, 2006), 31-56, available at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2005/byrnes-paper.html

(with Gabrielle McKinnon), "The ACT Human Rights Act 2004 and the Commonwealth Anti-Terrorism Act (No 2) 2005: a triumph for federalism or a federal triumph?", paper presented at Expert Workshop Ensuring accountability - Terrorist challenges and State responses in a free society, Australian National University, Canberra, 20-21 April 2006, Working Paper 1 of the ACT Human Rights Act Project, April 2006 http://acthra.anu.edu.au/articles/Working%20Paper%20No%201.pdf

"Law, lawyers and lattes: the (ir)relevance of the chattering classes in a time of insecurity", Law Week Lecture, 29 March 2006, Sydney, http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/news_and_events/Doc/LawLawyersLattesLecture_AndrewByrnes.pdf and http://law.anu.edu.au/terrorismlaw/Law%20Lawyers%20and%20Lattes%20lecture%2029%20March%202006%20final.pdf

"A New United Nations Treaty on Disability - An Opportunity for the Asia Development Bank?", Asian Development Bank Gender Network News, September 2006, http://www.adb.org/Documents/Periodicals/GNN/newsletter-16.pdf

2005

(with R Emerton, K Adams and J Connors), "Introduction", in Emerton, Adams, Byrnes and Connors (eds) International Women's Rights Cases (Commonwealth Secretariat and Cavendish, 2005) xiii-xliii

Overview of International Law (International Human Rights Law and its Relation to National Law), Chapter 4 in National Human Rights Commission of India, Disability Manual (New Delhi: NHRC, 2005) 39-56

"Using International Human Rights Procedures to Advance the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities", Chapter 11 in National Human Rights Commission of India, Disability Manual (New Delhi: NHRC, 2005)215-242

"The Law was Warful': The Iraq War and the Role of International Lawyers in the Domestic Reception of International " in Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam, Devika Hovell, and George Williams (eds), The Fluid State: International Law and National Legal Systems (Sydney: Federation Press, 2005) 229-250

(with R Emerton, K Adams, and J Connors (eds)), International Women's Rights Cases (Commonwealth Secretariat and Cavendish, 2005), 880pp

"Overview of International Law (International Human Rights Law and its Relation to National Law)" and "Using International Human Rights Procedures to Advance the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities", Chapters 4 and 11 in National Human Rights Commission of India, Disability Manual (New Delhi: NHRC, 2005) 39-56, and 215-242

2004

(as Co-Rapporteur), Final report on the impact of the United Nations treaty bodies on the work of national courts and tribunals, June 2004 Committee on International Law and Practice of the International Law Association, for the 71st Annual Conference of the ILA in 2004 (available through ILA website: www.ila-hq.org (go to Committees, then to International Human Rights Law and Practice, then to Download 2004 Conference report)

"Hong Kong's Bill of Rights Experience and its (Ir)relevance to the ACT Debate over a Bill of Rights", in Christine Debono and Tania Colwell (eds), Comparative Perspectives on Bills of Rights (NISSL and CIPL, 2004) 33-48, available at http://law.anu.edu.au/nissl/borhk.pdf

"Unilateralism vs Multilateralism: Is there hope for international institutions?" in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (2003) 364-369

"Changing reality: all roads lead to equality?", Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, April 2-5, 2003 (2003) 60-65

(with Hilary Charlesworth),"The Illegality of the War against Iraq" 22(1) Dialogue pp 4-9, http://www.assa.edu.au/publications/dial.asp?id=60 (version available at law.anu.edu.au/cipl)