Research Interests

Human rights and democracy in state participation in international organizations 
The Commonwealth and Human rights
International Humanitarian Law
Military Law

Subjects Taught

International Legal Institutions (Spring)
International Humanitarian Law (Spring)

Brief Bio

Alison Duxbury joined the Law School as a Senior Lecturer in 2001. She holds bachelor degrees in Arts and Laws (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Pegasus Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar. Following completion of her undergraduate degrees, Alison worked at Blake Dawson Waldron and was admitted to practise in 1994. Prior to her appointment at Melbourne, Alison worked at the London office of Clifford Chance and Monash University.

Alison is a member of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee (Victorian Division), the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative based in Delhi.  She is currently Convenor of the University's Human Rights Forum.  In 2000, Alison was a Dame Lillian Penson Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London, and in 2004 and 2006 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Alison has undertaken advice work in the areas of international law and human rights, and has published in Australian and overseas law journals in these fields.   She has forthcoming publications in the Singapore Yearbook of International Law (on regional institutions in Asia), the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (the report of the Australian correspondent), and the Public Law Review (on White v Director of Military Prosecutions).  Alison is currently updating the Defence Title for Halsbury's Laws of Australia.

Representative Publications

1. 'David Hicks: Where to Next?' (2006) 13(4) CHRI News 4.

2. 'The Progressive Development of Human Rights Standards at CHOGM' (2004) 11(4) CHRI News 1-3.

3. 'The Iraqi Special Tribunal' (2004) 15 INTERIGHTS Bulletin 36-37.

4. A. Coles, P. Dharmadasa, Duxbury A and C. Klein, 'Australian Correspondents` Report' (2004) Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 446-454.

5. 'Review of Charlesworth`s Writing in Rights - Australia and the Protection of Human Rights' (2002) 14 Current Issues in Criminal Justice 125-126.

6. 'Book Review: International Law and Australian Federalism' (2000) 12 Pacifica Review 316-317.

7. A. Duxbury and S. Brennan, 'Sovereign Immunity and Sovereign Impunity: An Update on the Pinochet Case' (1999) International Law News 15-25.

8. 'A v. Australia - Arbitrary Detention in Australia' (1998) International Law News 11-15.

9. 'Review of Communicating with the Human Rights Committee and Petitioning the CERD Committee' (1998) 4 Indigenous Law Bulletin 22.

10. 'The Anti-Teoh Bill Revisited' (1997) International Law News 28-33.