Centre Associates

Professor Jack Anderson

Professor Jack Anderson is affiliated with Melbourne University, he has published widely in the area of sports law including The Legality of Boxing (Routledge, London, 2007), Modern Sports Law (Hart, Oxford 2010), the edited collection Landmark Cases in Sports Law (The Hague, Asser, 2013) and he is a contributor to the latest edition of Thorpe et al on Sports Law in Australia (2022). Jack is a member of a number of sports dispute resolution tribunals.

Associate Professor Natalie Baird

Natalie Baird is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law | Te Kaupeka Ture at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Aotearoa | New Zealand. Natalie’s research interests include international human rights law, international refugee law, international disaster law and Pacific legal studies. Natalie is also a part-time member of the New Zealand Human Rights Review Tribunal.

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Dr Hayley Cullen

Lecturer in Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. Hayley is passionate about conducting innovative psycho-legal research that has the potential to improve legal procedures and prevent miscarriages of justice from occurring. She is also passionate about conducting research that can improve victims' access to justice.

Pro Bono Solicitor Kishaya Delaney

Kishaya Delaney is a proud Wiradjuri woman, graduate of Newcastle Law School, and Pro Bono Solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills. Previously, Kishaya worked as Project Officer for the Towards Truth project, leading a team of researchers to develop a legislation and policy mapping database to support truth-telling under the third reform of the Uluru Statement of the Heart. As a key member of the Uluru Statement Youth Dialogue, Kishaya regularly delivers presentations and facilitates sessions about the Uluru Statement from the Heart movement.

Solicitor Lauren Davies

Lauren Davies is a Gomeroi-Ngarabal woman. In 2020, she graduated from Macquarie University and started working as a solicitor with the National Justice Project (NJP) specialising in facilitating access to justice, dismantling racially biased health and justice systems and providing client-centred services. Lauren has experience working as criminal a solicitor with the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) and as a civil solicitor with Legal Aid NSW. She is currently working for the Department of Parliamentary Services. She is also undertaking a Master of Laws specialising in Human Rights Law and Policy at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Senior Associate Luke Hawthorne

Luke specialises in intellectual property, privacy, and regulatory litigation at the law firm King & Wood Mallesons, where he acts across technology, creative, and life sciences industries. Beginning with campaigns as a member of the University of Newcastle Law Students Association, Luke has continued a commitment to use his skills as a lawyer as an advocate for change in the recognition of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights—leading a program delivering over 3,000 pro bono hours to over 300 artists. In 2020, he was the recipient of the University of Newcastle Young Alumni Award.

Professor Bronwyn Hemsley

Professor Bronwyn Hemsley is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist and Fellow of Speech Pathology Australia and the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She co-leads the Disability Research Network at UTS. Bronwyn has been involved in collaborative research with Dr Shaun McCarthy particularly in relation to the use of personal e-health records, the Advance Care Directive, Australia's My Health Record, and the safety of people with disability in hospital and at home, most recently in relation to preventing the choking deaths of people with swallowing difficulty in residential services. She has substantial experience in conducting inclusive research that includes people with severe communication disability.

Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny

Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny is affiliated with Murdoch University, she is published in the area of human rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Her research on improving legal practice, community support and high-level policy advice through the study of migration and refugee law and policy was rated by the ARC as having high socioeconomic impact.

Dr Fiona McGaughey

Dr Fiona McGaughey is an Associate Professor at UWA Law school at the University of Western Australia. She teaches on the Master of International Law, and the Law and Society Major.  Fiona’s primary research areas are international human rights law (including UN mechanisms and the role of NGOs), modern slavery and human rights pedagogy.

Associate Professor Jeffrey McGee

Associate Professor Jeffrey McGee is affiliated with the University of Tasmania. He is an expert in global environmental law and governance and works on strategies that can help us respond to climate change. He provides critical analysis and commentary on the development and policy of institutions such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), and the legal frameworks that bind them.

Associate Professor Maria O'Sullivan

Associate Professor Maria O'Sullivan is affiliated with Monash University, and is the Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Maria is the author of a number of international and national publications on the subjects of public law, human rights and refugee law.

Managing Solicitor Emma Parker

Emma Parker (LLB (Hons) BA-Psych) is the Managing Solicitor of the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) office in Newcastle. Emma was trained by two Accredited Criminal Law Specialists in a private Sydney law firm and then joined the ALS at Redfern in 2018. She is a persuasive and experienced courtroom advocate that practises exclusively in Criminal Defence Law.

Solicitor Charlotte Pascall

In late 2016, Charlotte started as a volunteer with the ALS Newcastle office whilst completing her studies at UoN. At the beginning of 2019 she started as a junior solicitor with the Western Zone ALS in Tamworth, before moving to the Bathurst office in 2020. She appeared in the Children’s, Local and District courts in a range of rural and remote locations across Western NSW. In October 2021, she returned home to Newcastle and joined the Local Court team at Legal Aid. She is the managing solicitor of the District Court appeals practice.

Dr Sangeetha Pillai

Dr Sangeetha Pillai is a constitutional lawyer and a Senior Research Associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She is an expert on Australian citizenship law, and the constitutional differences in the scope of government power that can be exercised over citizens and non-citizens.

Caitlin Reiger

Caitlin Reiger is CEO of the Human Rights Law Centre and a human rights lawyer. She has spent the past 25 years working globally on transitional justice for mass human rights violations, international criminal law, and justice  system reform.

Professor Susan Harris Rimmer

Professor Susan Harris Rimmer affiliated with Griffith University, she is the Director of the Griffith University Policy Innovation Hub (appointed July 2020).  She is an expert in human rights law, International law, access to  justice and feminist theory.

Senior Associate Chris Turner

Chris Turner is a Senior Associate at Chalk and Behrendt. He practices primarily as a litigator conducting Aboriginal land claim appeals in the Land and Environment Court as well as native title claims in the Federal Court of Australia. Chris has also acted for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and corporations in the Local Court, Supreme Court and the Full Federal Court, as well as before the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Before joining Chalk & Behrendt, Chris gained experience in the Indigenous education sector, working as Research Assistant to the CEO of the Aurora Project/Aurora Education Foundation, and completing an Aurora Internship at the Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation.