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Publications Click here for Publication listing Overview Andrew Byrnes joined the UNSW Law Faculty as Professor of International Law in May 2005. Previously, he was Professor of Law at the Australian National University (2001-2005) and prior to that was Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, where he was Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law and Director of the Master of Laws in Human Rights until his departure in 2001. Research Interests International law, Human rights law (particularly gender and disability issues) International criminal law, Discrimination law, Terrorism and the law Current Research Projects Protecting economic, social and cultural Rights in the ACT: models, methods and impact,: ARC Linkage project with Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Regnet, ANU) in collaboration with the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety (LP0989167) National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific Region Project:ARC Linkage Project (with Andrea Durbach and Catherine Renshaw), in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, entitled “Building Human Rights in the Region through Horizontal Transnational Networks: the. Role of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions” (LP0776639), details at http://www.ahrcentre.org/content/Activites/APFproject.html Australia’s First Bill of Rights: Assessing the Impact of the Australian Capital Territory’s Human Rights Act 2004: ARC Linkage Project (with Hilary Charlesworth, Regnet, ANU), in collaboration with the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety) (LP0455490), details at http://acthra.anu.edu.au/index.html Terrorism and the non-State actor: The role of law in the search for security after September 11: ARC Discovery Project (DP045 1473) (with Simon Bronitt, Pene Mathew, Miriam Gani, Russell Hogg, and Mark Nolan, ANU), details at http://law.anu.edu.au/terrorismlaw/) (completed July 2008 with publication of Miriam Gani and Pene Mathew (eds), Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’ (ANU E-press, 2008), available at http://epress.anu.edu.au/war_terror_citation.html) Preparation of a commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (for Oxford University Press) (with Jane Connors) Preparation of a commentary on The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Cambridge University Press) (with Gerard Quinn, Michael Stien, Theresia Degener, Janet Lord, and Andrew Begg) Journal Affiliations Australian Yearbook of International Law, Co-Editor(until mid-2007) Member Editorial Board (from mid-2007) Australian Journal of Human Rights, Editorial Board member New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, Advisory Board Member New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review, Member Advisory Board Other Activities Since May 2005 he has been chair of the Committee of Management of the Australian Centre for Human Rights and a member of its subcommittees on international law/international humanitarian law, and human rights education. He is currently Co-Director of Studies of the International Law Association (Australian Branch), and has served as Co-Rapporteur of the ILA`s Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice, and a member of the Executive Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. He also serves as a member of the Asian Development Bank`s External Forum on Gender and Development, as a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Women`s Rights Action Watch (Asia Pacific), as a member of the Advisory Committee, International Disability Monitoring Project of Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI), based at York University, Canada, and a member of the International Litigation Advisory Committee of the Center for Reproductive Rights (New York). He has acted as a consultant to a number of international and national public agencies and NGOs. He was an adviser to the delegation of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions to the UN General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Disability Convention, from 2004-2006. |