Alison Duxbury is a Professor at Melbourne Law School and an Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law. She is also the Chair of the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, a non-governmental organisation with offices in Delhi, Accra and London.
Alison is a member of the Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Alison is a former Associate Dean of Melbourne’s JD degree.
Alison's major teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, international institutional law, human rights law and public law. Her publications include The Participation of States in International Organisations: The Role of Human Rights and Democracy (Cambridge, 2011), a co-edited collection, Military Justice in the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2016), and a co-authored book, Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously? (Cambridge, 2019).
Alison has undertaken advice work in the areas of international law and human rights law. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge, the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. Alison has also taught at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Alison is the recipient of a Melbourne Teaching Citation, the Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence and a National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Alison holds BA/LLB (Hons) and PhD degrees from the University of Melbourne, and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Pegasus Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar. Prior to joining Melbourne Law School, Alison worked at Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst), the London office of Clifford Chance and Monash University.
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Professor
Law
Member Of The Board Of Directors Of The International Society For Military Law And The Law Of War
Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War
Member Of The Advisory Commission Of The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Based In Delhi, Accra And London)
Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (based in Delhi, Accra and London)
Member Of The American Society Of International Law
American Society of International Law
Member
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Barrister & Solicitor
Supreme Court of Victoria
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Master of Laws
University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Laws with Honours
University of Melbourne