Ms Tania Penovic - Researcher Profile

Biography

Tania Penovic is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. She lectures in Torts, Civil Procedure and Human Rights in Australian Law. Tania's research explores a range of concerns about the operation of human rights norms, including the human rights of asylum seekers and indigenous peoples, the human rights obligations of corporations, reproductive rights and the intersection between human rights and the common law, particularly the law of tort as a source of human rights. Tania has been involved in a number of enquiries into federal and Victorian law reform and in professional human rights training programs for judges and government officials.

Areas of Expertise

Civil Procedure
Human Rights Law
Torts

 

 

Research & Supervision Interests

Human Rights

International Human Rights Law

International Law

Refugee Law

Torts

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF LAWS (HONS)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2005

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2005

MST

Institution: University of Oxford

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Book Chapters

Penovic, T., 2013, Boat people and the body politic, in Contemporary Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Austrloa, eds Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan, Thomson Reuters, Sydney Australia, pp. 333-370.

Penovic, T., 2012, Non-compliance, amendment and time, in Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials, eds Stephen Colbran, Peta Spender, Sheryl Jackson and Roger Douglas, Lexis Nexis Butterworths, Sydney Australia, pp. 193-243.

Journal Articles

Penovic, T., 2011, Human Rights and the Unborn Child (Review), Human Rights Quarterly [P], vol 33, issue 1, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore USA, pp. 229-243.

Penovic, T., 2011, Labor's 'new directions in detention' three years on: plus ca change, Alternative Law Journal [P], vol 36, issue 4, Legal Service Bulletin Co-Operative Ltd, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 240-244.

Penovic, T., 2008, Mental harm as an instrument of public policy, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law [P], vol 15, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 140-152.

Penovic, T., 2008, Testing the boundaries of administrative detention through the tort of false imprisonment, Torts Law Journal [P], vol 16, issue 2, Lexus Nexis Butterworths, Australia, pp. 156-176.

Penovic, T., Dastyari, A., 2007, Boatloads of incongruity: the evolution of Australia's offshore processing regime, Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol 13, issue 1, LexisNexis, Chatswood NSW, pp. 33-62.

Penovic, T., Sifris, A.R., 2006, Children's rights through the lens of immigration detention, Australian Journal of Family Law, vol 20, issue 1, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood NSW, pp. 12-44.

Penovic, T., Sifris, A.R., 2005, Like a bird in a cage: children's voices and challenges to Australia's immigration detention regime, International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, vol 3, issue 2, Centre for Equity & Innovation in Early Childhood (CEIEC), Parkville Vic Australia, pp. 32-44.

Penovic, T., 2005, Undermining Australia's international standing: the failure to extend human rights, protections to indigenous peoples affected by Australian mining companies' ventures abroad, Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol 11, issue 1, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood NSW Australia, pp. 71-118.

Sifris, A.R., Penovic, T., 2004, Children in immigration detention: The Bakhtiyari family in the High Court and beyond, Alternative Law Journal, vol 29, issue 5, Legal Service Bulletin Co-Operative Ltd., Wheelers Hill Vic Australia, pp. 217-221.

Penovic, T., 2004, Immigration detention of children: arbitrary deprivation of liberty, The Newcastle Law Review, vol 7, issue 2, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle NSW, pp. 56-78.

Penovic, T., Naylor, B., Sifris, A., 2004, Interest rates in human suffering at all-time low, Alternative Law Journal [P], vol 29, issue 5, Legal Service Bulletin Co-Operative Ltd, Clayton, Vic, Australia, p. 211.

Penovic, T., 2004, The separation of powers: Lim and the 'voluntary' immigration detention of children, Alternative Law Journal, vol 29, issue 5, Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Ltd, Vic Australia, pp. 222-227.

Epstein, J.A., Penovic, T., 2003, Can you have your say about your neighbour's planning application and salvage your relationship? A study of mediation in the Planning and Environment List at VCAT, Local Government Law Journal, vol 8, issue 3, Lawbook Co., Pyrmont NSW Australia, pp. 116-176.

Conference Proceedings

Penovic, T., 2012, Implementing human rights in immigration detention facilities, Implementing Human Rights in Closed Environments, 20-21 February 2012, Monash University, Melbourne Australia, pp. 1-21.

Other

Penovic, T., 2013, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Enquiry into Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Senate Committee, House of Representatives, On-Line.

Penovic, T., O'Dwyer, L., Northwood, K., 2011, Provisions of the Civil Dispute Resolution Bill 2010, Monash University, Clayton Vic Austalia, pp. 1-21.

Penovic, T., 2011, Report on House of Representatives standing committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs into the regulation of billboard and outdoor advertising, Afternoon Live, ABC News, Australia.

Penovic, T., 2011, Sky should now withdraw its Australia Network tender, On-Line Opinion, ABC, on-line.

Penovic, T., Thompson, A., Harrison, L., 2011, Social Policy and Legal Affairs into the Regulation of Billboard and Outdoor Advertising, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-19.

Kneebone, S., O'Sullivan, M., Penovic, T., 2011, Submission to Inquiry into the Agreement Between Australia and Malaysia on the Transfer of Asylum Seekers to Malaysia, Monash University, Clayton Melb Australia, pp. 1-22.

Penovic, T., 2011, Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee into the Migrations Amendment (Detention Reform and Prodcedural Fairness) Bill 2010, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-8.

Penovic, T., 2011, Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Immigration Detention Network, Monash Univerisity, Clayton Melb Australia, pp. 1-13.

Teaching Commitment

Civil procedure  (LAW5104)

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The role and importance of Parens Patriae principles in the superior civil Courts of Australia arising from ther former jurisdiction of Chancery and Equity.

Supervisors:

Barkehall-Thomas, S (Main), Penovic, T (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Sloane, E.

Program of Study:

Woolf v Dragon: Comparative Civil Justice Reform. An examination of civil justice reform in England and Hong Kong, with recommendations for implementation in Victoria.. 2010.

Supervisors:

Penovic, T (Main).