Individual Projects

Professor Sarah Joseph

A handbook was recently completed for the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), co-authored by Professor Sarah Joseph, Carin Benninger-Budel and Castan Centre research assistants Katie Mitchell and Linda Gyorki. The book,Seeking Remedies for Torture Victims: A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN Treaty Bodies (Volume 4), will help further the fight to eradicate torture around the world. The handbook is part of a series being published by OMCT to assist individuals and non government organisations with the process of bringing acts of torture into the light.

ARC Grant 2002 for a project entitled 'Fair Procedures for Refugee Status Determinations' together with Professor Stephen Legomsky of Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA. This project undertakes a comparative evaluation of the standards and procedures of six countries to determine the features of fair models for justice in this context

ARC Grant 2001 for a project entitled 'Nationality, Alienage and Non-refoulement of Refugees'

ARC Grant 2000 for a project entitled 'The Refugees Convention 50 Years On: Globalisation and International Law'. The purpose of this was to enable me to conduct an international workshop on the Refugees Convention

Strategic Partnership with Industry - Research and Training (SPIRT) Grant (The Judicial Conference of Australia being the Industry Partner) 1999-2002: The Institutional Impact of a Bill of Rights

‘Reform in American History and Law’, Fulbright American Studies Institute Fellowship, June-August 2001

ARC Grant in 2001, with Moira Paterson (for a three year period) entitled "Electronic Health Records: Achieving an Effective and Ethical Legal and Recordkeeping Framework"

Monash University Small Grants Scheme 2000: Accountability in public and private prisons: the operation of internal disciplinary hearings in Victorian prisons.