Dr Julie Debeljak

Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
BEc, LLB(Hons), LLM(1st class), PhD,

Professional Profile

Julie Debeljak has been a lecturer with the Faculty of Law at Monash University since 2002, and from 2007 will hold a Senior Lecturer position. She was an Associate Lecturer from 1996 to 2001.

Julie has a particular interest in the field of human rights law and constitutional law, and is a foundational Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. She completed her doctorate in 2004 on comparative domestic human rights protection.  Julie is currently researching the human rights issues surrounding trafficking in persons under an ARC Linkage Grant with Professors Kneebone and McSherry.  She has conducted numerous human rights training courses for Australian and overseas government officials, been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake a summer institute about American constitutional law at Boston College in 2001, and was an intern with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1998.

Areas of Expertise

Civil Liberties
Constitutional Law
International Human Rights Law
The Judiciary
International Humanitarian Law
Comparative Consitutions and Rights
Administrative Law

Teaching Commitments

Administrative Law (LAW3100)
Comparative Constitutions and Rights (LAW7165)
Comparative Constitutions and Rights 406 (LAW4165)
Consitutional Law (LAW3200)
Current Issues in International Human Rights Law (LAW7026)
International Humanitarian Law (LAW7218)
International Human Rights Law (LAW4155)
International Human Rights for Thomas Cooley (LAW7206)