Michael Donald Kirby is an Australian jurist and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia,serving from 1996 to 2009. He has remained active in retirement;in May 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea,which reported in February 2014.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373,adopted unanimously on 28 September 2001,is a counterterrorism measure passed following the 11 September terrorist attacks on the United States. The resolution was adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter,and is therefore binding on all UN member states.
Sir Anthony Frank MasonHonFAIB DistFRSN is an Australian judge who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Australia,in office from 1987 to 1995. He was first appointed to the High Court in 1972,having previously served on the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Fionnuala NíAoláin is an Irish academic lawyer specialising in human rights law. She was the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism for the United Nations Human Rights Council from August 1,2017 - November 2023.
Nicholas Richard Cowdery,is a barrister who served as the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Australian state of New South Wales from 1994 to 2011. Cowdery also served as president of the International Association of Prosecutors from 1999 to 2005.
Elizabeth Andreas Evatt,an eminent Australian reformist lawyer and jurist who sat on numerous national and international tribunals and commissions,was the first Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia,the first female judge of an Australian federal court,and the first Australian to be elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
Paul Ronald Pearce is an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Coogee between 2003 and 2011 for the Labor Party.
Founded in 1963,the charter of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties is to protect the rights and liberties of Australian citizens and to oppose the abusive or excessive exercise of power by the state against its people.
Conor A. Gearty KC (Hon),is the Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE Department of Law. From 2002 to 2009,he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. His academic research focuses primarily on civil liberties,terrorism and human rights.
Martin Scheinin is an international law scholar who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. He was selected for this position after serving for eight years (1997–2004) as member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee,the independent expert body monitoring states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While on the committee,he was known as a defendant of the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples and opponent of capital punishment,as well as the drafter of the committee's General Comment No. 29 on states of emergency.
George John Williams is the Vice-Chancellor and President of Western Sydney University.
Surya Prasad Subedi OBE KC DCL is a British-Nepalese jurist. He is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds,a member of the Institut de Droit International,and a barrister in London. He also is a visiting professor on the international human rights law programme of the University of Oxford. He served as the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia for six years (2009-2015). He also served for five years,starting in 2010,on an advisory group on human rights to the British Foreign Secretary. In 2021,he was appointed legal procedural advisor to the World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature held in Marseille,France. He has written a number of works on the theory and practice of international law and human rights and acted as a counsel in a number of cases before the international courts and tribunals,including the International Court of Justice. In 2022,he was appointed to the list of arbitrators under a post-Brexit free-trade treaty between the United Kingdom and the European Union - the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).
Ian Freckelton is an Australian barrister,former judge of the Supreme Court of Nauru,international academic,and high-profile legal scholar and jurist. He is known for his extensive writing and speaking in more than 30 countries on issues related to health law,expert evidence,criminal law,tort law,therapeutic jurisprudence and research integrity. Freckelton is a member of the Victorian Bar Association,the Tasmanian Bar Association,and the Northern Territory Bar Association in Australia.
Michael Benedict Emmerson CBE KC is a British barrister,specialising in public international law,human rights and humanitarian law,and international criminal law. From 2011 to 2017,he was the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. Emmerson is currently an Appeals Chamber Judge of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals sitting on the Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has previously served as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court,and Special Adviser to the Appeals Chamber of the ECCC.
Tim Stephens is Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Stephens' main areas of research are the international law of the sea and international environmental law.
Paul Joseph Hugh McDermott is an Australian politician who was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the State Member for Prospect for the Labor Party at the 2015 New South Wales state election. Prior to entering Parliament he had a career as an international lawyer and university academic. Since 2023 he has served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General in the government of Chris Minns.
James Joseph Macken (1927–2019) was an Australian lawyer,judge and human rights activist.
Jane Hamilton Mathews was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales,a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Jane Alexandra McAdam is an Australian legal scholar,and expert in climate change and refugees. She is a Scientia Professor at the University of NSW,and is the inaugural Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2021 for “distinguished service to international refugee law,particularly to climate change”.
