Professor Sarah Joseph

Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
BA, LLB(Hons), LLM(1st Class), PhD,

Professional Profile

Professor Sarah Joseph is the Director for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.   Her teaching and research interests are International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law.

 She has published a number of books including Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart 2004), co-authoring The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (OUP, 2nd ed, 2004), Federal Constitutional Law:a contemporary view (Thompson, 2nd ed, 2006), and A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN (OMCT, 2006). 

She was a lead investigator on an ARC linkage project on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights (2002-4), and is the lead investigator on a Discovery project on the WTO and Human Rights.

In 2006 she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Board to the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University, Washington DC.  Since 2005 she has been a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Establishment of a new Law School in New Delhi, India
Sarah has also conducted numerous professional human rights training courses for overseas and Australian Government officials.

Areas of Expertise

Human rights
International humanitarian law
Constitutional law

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional Law (LAW3200)
International Human Rights (LAW4155)
Current Issues in International Human Rights (LAW7026)
International Humanitarian Law (LAW7218)
Human Rights Litigation (LAW7252)
Human Rights in the Global economy (LAW7253)