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Centre Directors

Shiri Krebs

Professor Shiri Krebs is a professor in the Deakin Law School and a co-director of the Centre for Law as Protection. She is the elected chair of the Lieber Society for the Law of Armed Conflict and an affiliated scholar at Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, researching in the intersection of law, science and technology.

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Patrick Emerton

Professor Patrick Emerton is a professor in the Deakin Law School and a co-director of the Centre for Law as Protection. He researches in constitutional theory, political theory, and the law and morality of political violence. He has published in leading law and philosophy journals, including Philosophy and Public Affairs.

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Executive committee

Tamsin Paige Senior Lecturer at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University

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Marilyn McMahon Professor at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University

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Dan Meagher Professor and Chair in Law at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University

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Felicity Gerry KC Professor of Legal Practice at Deakin University

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Cross-theme lead for animal and environmental protection

Jane Kotzmann Senior Lecturer at the Deakin Law School, Deakin University

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Research theme leads

Shiri Krebs Protecting from organised violence and abuse of governmental power

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Patrick Emerton Protecting from organised violence and abuse of governmental power

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Maria O’Sullivan Protecting from technology-based harms

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Antje Kreutzmann-Gallasch Protecting from economic harm and abuse of corporate power

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Zehra Gulay Kavame Eroglu Protecting from economic harm and abuse of corporate power

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Tania Penovic Protecting from inequality, marginality, and deprivation

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Colin Campbell Protecting from inequality, marginality, and deprivation

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International visitors

Matilda Arvidsson

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Frédéric Mégret

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Professor Gina Heathcote Faculty of Law, Newcastle University (UK)

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Professor Omar Dajani Faculty of Law, McGeorge University of the Pacific (US)

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Professor Craig Martin Faculty of Law, Washburn University (US)

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Professor Christian Leuprecht Department of Political Studies, Queen’s (Canada)

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Researchers