Associate Professor Madelaine Chiam is Deputy Dean and Associate Dean Academic and Partnerships at La Trobe Law School. She researches primarily in public and international law, in particular the histories of international law, the relationships between the global and the local, and the role of international law in Australian life. Her recent publications include ‘Law, War and Letter Writing’ (with Monique Cormier and Anna Hood) in the European Journal of International Law 2024, and International Law In Public Debate (Cambridge University Press 2021). At La Trobe, Madelaine teaches Australian constitutional law and public international law, and is a member of the International and Comparative Law Research Cluster. Madelaine is a member of the faculty of the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshops.
Professor Jeremy Farrall is Professor of Law at the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University. He is a Chief Investigator on two active Australian Research Council Discovery Projects: Shaping International Law in Times of Global Transformation: Australian Contributions (2023-2027, with Chiam, Michaelsen and Silverstein); & Reconceiving Engagement with lnternational Law in a Populist Era (2022-2027, with Ford, Danchin, Rana and Saunders). Jeremy has previously worked for the United Nations in a range of roles, serving as a Political Affairs Officer for the UN Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York (2001-2004) and for the UN Mission in Liberia (2004-2006). He was also a UN Facilitator for the UN Secretary-General’s Good Offices team mediating peace talks in Cyprus (2004, 2008). Jeremy’s books include: United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law (Cambridge 2007); The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict (Cambridge 2009, edited with Bowden and Charlesworth); & Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (Routledge 2016, edited with Charlesworth). His articles have been published by field-leading journals, such as American Journal of International Law, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Australian Yearbook of International Law, Global Governance, Leiden Journal of International Law, and Virginia Journal of International Law.
Professor Christopher Michaelsen is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at Western Sydney University (WSU) in Sydney, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Law at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali “Guido Carli” (LUISS) in Rome, Italy. Chris previously held a tenured position in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining academia, he served as a Human Rights Officer at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Warsaw, Poland. He has held visiting and adjunct appointments at the University of Hong Kong, Brooklyn Law School, the University of Sannio, the Australian National University, Akita International University and the University of St. Andrews. He is a founding member of the Security Council Analysis Network (SCAN), a former Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Human Rights and is currently serving on the Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL).
Dr Jordana Silverstein is a Senior Research Fellow in the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness in the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. In 2025 she is commencing an ARC Future Fellowship project entitled ‘Intergenerational Stories of Statelessness: An Oral History Project’. She is the author of Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders (2023), which was shortlisted for the Non-Fiction prize in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and highly commended for the Australian History prize in the NSW Premier’s History Awards. She is also the author of Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (2015) and co-editor of In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (2016) and Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance (2021). She has held a Visiting Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU and was awarded the 2021 Marian Quartly Prize for her article “Refugee children, boats and drownings: a history of an Australian ‘humanitarian’ discourse”, published in History Australia; and the 2023 John Barrett Award, Open Category, for her article “Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps,” published in Journal of Australian Studies.
Dr Sarah Green is the Research Officer for the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Shaping International Law in Times of Global Transformation: Australian Contributions. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2019 and was the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship. Her thesis combined oral histories and archival research to investigate experiences and memories of Bosnian child refugees in Australia in the 1990s. She has published in Journal of Refugee Studies (2024) and in the edited collection Memory and Family in Australian Refugee Studies (2019). She also has extensive experience in policy development within the social services sector.
Global Transformations 