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

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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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Jane Kotzmann Associate Professor at Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Research theme leads

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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 Osullivan Headshot
Maria O’Sullivan Protecting from technology-based harms
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Zehra Gulay Kavame Eroglu headshot
Zehra Gulay Kavame Eroglu Protecting from economic harm and abuse of corporate power
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Tania Penovic headshot
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 University of Gothenburg
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Frédéric Mégret Faculty of Law, McGill University
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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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Dr. Ekaterina Antsygina Postdoctoral Researcher in Law (Law of the Sea, Public International Law, Environmental Law)
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Dr John Taggart Lecturer in Law and Director of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Queen’s University Belfast
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Professor Treasa Dunworth Professor of Law at the University of Auckland
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Professor Kevin Cope Professor of Law at the University of Virginia
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Professor Mila Versteeg Professor of Law at the University of Virginia
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Dr David Scharia Chief of Branch, Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), Security Council, United Nations
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Dr Kseniia Tatarkina LL.M Research Associate at the Chair for Private and Business Law, Corporate and Tax Law of Prof. Dr. Günter Reiner, Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg
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Industry Partners

Dr Damian Copeland Director of Article 36 Legal
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Hollie Johnston Legal Adviser in International Humanitarian Law at Australian Red Cross
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Researchers