Assoc Prof Julie Debeljak - Researcher Profile

Julie Debeljak

Address

Faculty of Law
PO Box 12, Clayton

Biography

Julie Debeljak has been an Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University (2013-) and is a foundational Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law (2000-). Previously she was a Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, and Assistant Lecturer (1996-2012).

 

Julie researches in the fields of international human rights law, comparative domestic human rights law, constitutional law, and human trafficking. She has co-authored a book, co-edited two collections on human rights in closed environments, and authored numerous articles and book chapters. Julie has been awarded two ARC Linkage grants.

 

She has been involved in human rights capacity building with Victorian, Australian and overseas governmental and non-governmental bodies.

 

Publications http://ssrn.com/author=865908

 

 

Julie Debeljak has been an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Law at Monash University since 2013,  and is a foundational Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law (2000-). Previously she was a Senior Lecturer (2007-2012), a Lecturer (2002-2006), and an Assistant Lecturer (1996-2001).

Julie researches in the field of international human rights law, comparative domestic human rights law, constitutional law, and human trafficking. Julie co-authored with Susan Kneebone Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Routledge, 2012), and co-edited two collections on Human Rights in Closed Environments (one forthcoming). She has written numerous book chapters and articles on topics including human rights and democracy, the domestic implementation of human rights obligations in Australia and comparatively (including on the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities), human rights in closed environments, legal responses to trafficking in persons, the rights of indigenous peoples, and access to civil justice and human rights. Julie completed her doctorate in 2004 on comparative domestic human rights protection. She also regularly writes submissions to parliamentary and public inquiries.

Julie has been awarded two Australian Research Council Linkage grants. The first, with Profs Kneebone and McSherry, considered Australia's Response to Trafficking in Women: A Model for the Regulation of Forced Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region (2006-2009). The second, with Prof Freiberg, Assoc Profs Naylor and Thomas, and Dr Dussuyer, considers Applying Human Rights Legislation in Closed Environments: A Strategic Framework for Managing Compliance (2009-2012).

Julie has been involved in human rights capacity building, involving numerous human rights courses for Victorian, Australian and overseas government officials and agencies (including the judiciary), independent statutory authorities, non-government organisations and the private sector.

Publications http://ssrn.com/author=865908

Keywords

International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Human Trafficking

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN LAW TEACHING
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2007
PHD
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2004
LLM (HONS I)
Institution: University of Cambridge
Year awarded: 1998
LLB (HONS)
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1995
BEC
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1992

Publications

Books

Kneebone, S.Y., Debeljak, J.F., 2012, Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Routledge, London UK.

Book Chapters

Debeljak, J.F., 2013, Does Australia need a Bill of Rights?, in Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Austrloa, eds Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan, Thomson Reuters, Sydney Australia, pp. 37-70.

Kneebone, S., Debeljak, J., 2010, Combating transnational crime in the Greater Mekong Subregion: the cases of Laos and Cambodia, in Trafficking and Human Rights: European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives, eds Leslie Holmes, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 133-152.

Debeljak, J.F., 2003, Rights and democracy: a reconciliation of the institutional debate, in Protecting Human Rights, Instruments and Institutions, eds Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Adrienne Stone, Oxford University Press Inc., New York USA, pp. 135-157.

Journal Articles

Castan, M., Debeljak, J., 2012, Indigenous peoples' human rights and the Victorian Charter: a framework for reorienting recordkeeping and archival practice, Archival Science [P], vol 12, issue 2, Springer, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 213-233.

Debeljak, J., 2011, Who is sovereign now? The Momcilovic Court hands back power over human rights that Parliament intended it to have, Public Law Review [P], vol 22, issue 1, Thomson Reuters, Pyrmont NSW Australia, pp. 15-51.

Debeljak, J.F., 2008, Balancing Rights in a Democracy: The Problems with Limitations and Overrides of Rights under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006, Melbourne University Law Review, vol 32, issue 2, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Victoria, pp. 422-469.

Debeljak, J.F., 2007, Parliamentary Sovereignty and Dialogue under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: Drawing the Line between Judicial Interpretation and Judicial Law-Making, Monash University Law Review, vol 33, issue 1, Monash University, Clayton Victoria Australia, pp. 9-71.

Debeljak, J.F., 2004, The Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT): a significant, yet incomplete, step toward the domestic protection and promotion of human rights, Public Law Review, vol 15, issue 3, Lawbook Co., NSW Australia, pp. 169-176.

Debeljak, J.F., 2003, The Human Rights Act 1998 (UK): the preservation of parliamentary supremacy in the context of rights protection, Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol 9, issue 1, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood NSW Australia, pp. 183-235.

Debeljak, J., 2002, Rights protection without judicial supremacy: a review of the Canadian and British models of bills of rights, Melbourne University Law Review, vol 26, issue 2, Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 285-324.

Debeljak, J., 2001, Access to civil justice: can a bill of rights deliver?, The Tort Law Review, vol 9, issue 1, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 32-52.

Debeljak, J., 2000, Barriers to Recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights at the United Nations, Monash University Law Review, vol 26 issue 1, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 159-194.

Debeljak, J., 1999, Formality Against Informality: The Fourth Working Group on the Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International Law News, vol 40 march issue, Int. Law Section of the Law Council of Aust., Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 76-87.

Debeljak, J., 1997, Changing our System of Government: The View of the Federal Centenary Convention, Young Lawyers, vol n/a, Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 14-16.

Debeljak, J., 1997, Trustees' Power of Investment: The Impact of the Trustees and Trustee Companies (Amendment) Act 1995 (Vic), Current Commercial Law, vol 5, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 99-118.

Conference Proceedings

Castan, M., Debeljak, J., 2010, The human rights impact of the Victorian Charter for indigenous peoples' record-keeping and archiving?, Towards an Understanding of the Archival and Recordkeeping Implications of Australian ans International Human Rights for Indigenous Australians, 12/10/2010, Australian Society of Archivists, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, pp. 1-14.

Debeljak, J.F., 2007, Mission Impossible: Possible Interpretation under the Victorian Charter and their Impact on Parliamentary Sovereignty and Dialogue, Human Rights 2006: The Year in Review, 1 December 2006, The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, Melbourne Australia, pp. 169-189.

Debeljak, J.F., 2006, Australia's response to eradicating trafficking in persons, Prevention of Human Trafficking: A Global Consultation, 13 November 2006 to 16 November 2006, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Bangkok Thailand, pp. 1-26.

Debeljak, J.F., 2005, The Proposal for an Australian Bill of Rights, Australian Lawyers Alliance National Conference 2005, 20 to 22nd October 2005, Australian Lawyers Alliance, www.apla.com/papers.php, pp. 1-26.

Debeljak, J., 1999, Can a Bill of Rights Protect or Enhance Meaningful Access to the Civil Justice System in Australia?, National Conference Papers, 21-23 October 1999, Sydney NSW, 21-23 October 1999, Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Assoc. Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-18.

Other

Fletcher, A.S.C., Debeljak, J.F., Joseph, S.L., 2011, Economic, social and cultural rights - A good idea for inclusion in the ACT Human Rights Act 2004, Submission to ACT Government Department of Justice and Community Safety, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Debeljak, J.F., 2011, Inquiry into the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, A submission as part of the four-year review of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) for the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Debeljak, J., McBeth, A., 2010, Hansard, Commonwealth of Australia Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010; Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010, Hansard, Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Debeljak, J., 2010, Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010 Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-11.

Debeljak, J., 2010, Submission on the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010, Federal Parliamentary Inquiry by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Federal Parliament, Commonwealth Government of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Debeljak, J., 2010, Submission to the Consultation on a Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities for Tasmania, Tasmanian Government Inquiry by the Department of Justice, Department of Justice, Hobart, Tas, Australia.

Debeljak, J.F., 2009, Submission to the national human rights consultation, Government submission, Castan Centre for Human Rights, Monash University.

Debeljak, J.F., Kneebone, S.Y., Cullen, M., Ransom, M.A., 2009, The legislative framework for combatting trafficking in persons, background paper for workshop, Castan Centre for Human Rights, Monash University.

Debeljak, J.F., 2007, Submission to the Consultation Committee for a Proposed Western Australian Human Rights Act, Government of Western Australia, Perth Australia.

Debeljak, J.F., 2006, Submission to the Tasmanian Human Rights Community Consultation Committee on 'How Human Rights are currently protected in Tasmania and whether the protection of Human Rights can be enhanced or extended?', Tasmanian Human Rights Community Consultation Committee, Tasmania Law Reform Institute, Tas Australia.

Debeljak, J.F., 2005, Submission on How Best to Protect and Promote Human Rights in Victoria, Parliamentary Submission to the Victorian Government's Human Rights Consultation Committee, Human Rights Consultation Committee, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Debeljak, J.F., 2000, Inquiry into a Statutory NSW Bill of Rights, New South Wales Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and Justice, NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and Justice, Sydney NSW Australia.

Debeljak, J., 1999, Indigenous Rights and the United Nations, Talking Law, Radio 3RPH, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Debeljak, J., 1999, Judicial Independence in the Modern Democratic State, Reform, Issue 74, Sydney NSW Australia.

Teaching Commitment

Overview of international human rights law (LAW7026)

Constitutional law (LAW3201)

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Comparison of two theoretical frameworks for prison operation - restorative justice and human rights.
Supervisors:
Debeljak, J (Joint), Naylor, B (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Human Rights Scrutiny in the Australian Parliament.
Supervisors:
Joseph, S (Main), Debeljak, J (Associate).