Professor Steven Freeland

Director of Research & HDR (July - Dec), School of Law

LLM, LLB, BComIndRel UNSW Contact details

• Career Profile
• Awards and Recognition
• Interests
• Publications
• Conferences

Career Profile

Steven Freeland is a Professor in International Law at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, where he teaches both postgraduate and undergraduate students in International Criminal Law, Commercial Aspects of Space Law, Public International Law, Human Rights Law and International Moot Court. He is also Co-Director of Research and HDR at the School of Law, and coordinator of the School’s International Law Mooting Program.

He is a Visiting Professor in International Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and (from 2013) the University of Vienna, Austria, a Member of Faculty of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law, and an Expert Assessor of Research Proposals to the Australian Research Council, Australia and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. He has taught courses and presented guest lectures at Universities in The Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Denmark, United States, Australia, Turkey, France and Singapore.

He has also been a Visiting Professional within the Appeals Chamber at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, and a Special Advisor to the Danish Foreign Ministry in matters related to the International Criminal Court.

Among other appointments, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the US-based Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, a member of the Space Law Committee of the London-based International Law Association, a Director and member of the Directorate of Studies of the Paris-based International Institute of Space Law, a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and a Fellow of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance.

He sits on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Human Rights, the Australian International Law Journal and the China-based Space Law Review, and on the Advisory Board of the Asian Journal of Air and Space Law, as well as a series of books entitled Studies in Space Law. He has also recently been appointed as a Co-Editor of Annotated Leading Cases of the International Criminal Tribunals, a long-established series of casebooks annotating the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor.

He has published extensively on various aspects of International Law and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, having been invited to present conference papers and keynote speeches in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.

Awards and Recognition

• Appointed Visiting Professional (Chambers), the International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands

• Appointed Visiting Professor of International Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2005-continuing)

• Appointed as Special Advisor to the Danish Government in relation to the International Criminal Court and International Law (2005)

• Appointed as a member of the Danish Government Delegation to the Fourth Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Satute of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands 30 November 2005 - 3 December 2005

• Appointed Visiting Scholar, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands (2007- continuing

• Appointed as Member of Faculty, London Institute of Space Policy and Law (2010-continuing)

• Appointed as part of the official Australian Government delegation to attend a Meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), Vienna, 15 February 2010

• Appointed as Expert Assessor of Research Proposals by the Australian Research Council, Australia (since 2011)

Interests

Learning and Teaching Interests

Public International; Law; International Criminal Law; The International Criminal Legal System - Policy and Process; Human Rights Law; Space Law - Commercial Aspects; International Advocacy

Research Interests

International Criminal Law; Human Rights Law; Public International Law; Space Law; International Environmental Law

Engagement Interests

Member of the Advisory Board, Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, USA (since 2010)

Chair, International Law Action Group, Lawyers Reform Association, Australia (2003-2008)

Member of Committee on Transnational Enforcement of Environmental Law, International Law Association, London (2003-2007)

Member of Committee on Space Law, International Law Association, London (since 2005)

Member of the International Institute of Space Law, Paris (since 2001)

Elected Member of the Directorate of Studies, International Institute of Space Law, Paris (since 2007)

Director of the International Institute of Space Law, Paris (since 2010)

Member of the Executive Committee, International Law Association (Australian Branch) (2002-2008)

Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (since 2003)

Fellow of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance, Australia (since 2003)

Invited Member of the SUR Human Rights University network established by the United Nations Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004-2008)

Co-Editor of Annotated Leading Cases of the International Criminal Tribunals (from 2012)

Member of the Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Human Rights (since 2002)

Member of Editorial Board, Australian International Law Journal (since 2002)

Member of the Editorial Board, Space Law Review (since 2010)

Member of Advisory Board for a series of books Studies in Space Law, Brill Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands (since 2006)

Member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Journal of Air and Space Law (since 2011)

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Publications

Books

Contemporary Issues for National and International Space Law: Commentary and Source Materials

AMG Publishing, Bulgaria (ISBN 978-954-9696-39-4) (with Rada Popova and Solomon Passy (forthcoming February 2012) (also translated into Bulgarian)

Book Chapters (selected)

Foreign Relations (revised)

in Halsbury Laws of Australia Volume 14, 2011 LexisNexis Australia, pages 392-001 to 392-768 (296 pages) (ISBN 0 409 30458 1)

Lost in Space? The Changing Nature of Australia's Space Policy

in (2010) Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law, 388-397, 2011 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington DC, USA (ISBN 978-1-60086-785-9)

Matching Detail with Practice: The Essential Elements of National Space Legislation

in (2010) Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law, 540-550, 2011 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington DC, USA (ISBN 978-1-60086-785-9)

The Appropriateness of the Moon Agreement for Lunar Exploration and Use

in (2010) Proceedings of the International Institute of Space Law, 562-568, 2011 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington DC, USA (ISBN 978-1-60086-785-9) (with Ram Jakhu and Stephan Hobe)

A Contemporary Review of the Air Space and Outer Space Regimes: The Thin Lines between Law, Policy and Emergent Challenges

in Sanford Silverburg (ed), International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Problems, 2011 Westview Press, USA, 300-317 (ISBN 978-0-8133-4471-3) (with Jackson Maogoto)

Debt-for-Nature Exchanges

in Ross P. Buckley (ed), Debt-for-Development Exchanges: History and New Applications, 2011 Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 17-40 (ISBN 978-1-107-00942-4) (with Ross P. Buckley)

United States Debt Exchanges

in Ross P. Buckley (ed), Debt-for-Development Exchanges: History and New Applications, 2011 Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 51-66 (ISBN 978-1-107-00942-4) (with Ross P. Buckley)

International Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty
in Jon Yorke (ed), The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics, 2010 Ashgate Publishing, UK, 193-231 (ISBN 978-0-7546-7761-1)

Commentary on Emmanuel Ndindabahizi v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-01-71-A, 16 January 2007

in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds) Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Volume XXV, The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2006-2007, 2010 Intersentia, Antwerp, 671-678 (ISBN 978-90-5095-916-2)

Regulation of Space Activities in Australia

in Ram Jakhu (ed), National Regulation of Space Activities, 2010 Springer, The Netherlands, 37-59 (ISBN 978-90-481-9007-2) (with Noel Siemon)

Space Tourism and the International Law of Outer Space

in Sandeep B. Bhat (ed), Space Law in the Era of Commercialization, 2010 EBC Publishing, India, 16-38 (ISBN 81-7012-995-8)

Introduction – Manfred Lachs’ The Law of Outer Space Revisited

in Tanja Masson-Zwaan and Stephan Hobe (eds), Manfred Lachs, The Law of Outer Space: An Experience in Contemporary Law-Making (special reprint), 2010 Martinus Nijhoff, Netherlands / USA, ix-xii (ISBN 978-9004-18667-5) (with Stephan Hobe and Ram Jakhu)

The 2008 Russia / China Proposal for a Treaty to Ban Weapons in Space: A Missed Opportunity or an Opening Gambit?

(2008) 51 Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 261-271 (ISBN 978-1-60086-717-0)

The Internationalization of Criminal Justice

in Stephan Hobe (ed), Globalisation – the State and International Law, 2009 Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 117-121 (ISBN 978-3-515-09375-0)

Article II of the 1969 Outer Space Treaty

in Stephan Hobe, Bernhard Schmidt-Tedd and Kai-Uwe Schrogl (eds), Cologne Commentary on Space Law, Volume I – Outer Space Treaty, 2009 Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne, 44-63 (ISBN 978-3-452-27185-3) (with Ram Jakhu)

The 21^st Century Space Arms Race: Curtailing Heavenly Thunderbolts through the Shield of the ‘Peaceful Purposes’ Mantra

in Sandeep B. Bhat (ed), Outer Space Law: From Theory to Practice, 2009 ICFAI Books, India, 79-105 (ISBN 978-81-314-2453-7) (with Jackson Maogoto)

Foreign Relations

in Halsbury Laws of Australia Volume 14, pages 392-001 to 392-767 (261 pages) (ISBN 0 409 304581) (with Christine Chinkin)

Introduction– the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in Timor Leste

in Andre Klip and Goran Sluiter (eds), Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Volume XIII, Timor Leste - The Special Panels for Serious Crimes, 2001-2003, 2008 Intersentia, Antwerp, 15-27 (ISBN 978-90-5095-673-4) (with Andre Klip, Goran Sluiter and Sergey Vasiliev)

Law of Outer Space

in Roland Robertson and Jan Aart Scholte (eds), Encyclopaedia of Globalization 2007 Routledge, New York, 722-724 (ISBN 0-415-97314-7) (with Alexis Goh)

Crimes against the Environment - A Role for the International Criminal Court?

in Alberto Costi and Yves-Louis Sage (eds), Droit de l'Environnement dans le Pacifique: Problématiques et Perspectives Croisées/Environmental Law in the Pacific: International and Comparative Perspectives 2005 New Zealand Association for Comparative Law/Association de Législation Comparée des Pays du Pacifique, RJP Hors Série no V, Wellington, 335-372 (ISBN 0-473-10630-2) (also translated into French)

Australia and the International Criminal Court

in Gabriel A Moens and Rudolphe Biffot (eds), The Convergence of Legal Systems in the 21^st Century – An Australian Approach, 2002 The Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, The University of Queensland, 285-308 (ISBN 1-8763-4409-1) (with Alexis Goh)

Difficulties of Implementing National Space Legislation Exemplified by the Australian Approach
in Stephan Hobe, Bernhard Schmidt-Tedd and Kai-Uwe Schrogl (eds), ‘Project 2001 Plus’ - Global and European Challenges for Air and Space Law at the Edge of the 21^st Century, 2006 Carl Heymanns Verlag, Köln, Germany, 65-92 (ISBN 3-452-26090-9)

The Significance of the Nordic Experience for Indigenous Governance in Australia
in Garth Nettheim, Gary D Meyers and Donna Craig (eds), Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures: a Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights, 2002 Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, Canberra, 185-188 (ISBN 0 85575 379 X) (with Donna Craig)

Indigenous Governance by the Inuit of Greenland

in Garth Nettheim, Gary D Meyers and Donna Craig (eds), Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures: a Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights, 2002 Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, Canberra, 189-208 (ISBN 0 85575 379 X) (with Donna Craig)

Indigenous Governance by the Sámi of Scandinavia

in Garth Nettheim, Gary D Meyers and Donna Craig (eds), Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures: a Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights, 2002 Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, Canberra, 209-237 (ISBN 0 85575 379 X) (with Donna Craig)

The Use of the Non-Equity Debt Exchange Mechanism to Promote Sustainable Development
Chapter 23 ‘Financing Sustainable Development’ in Craig, Robinson and Lian (eds), Capacity Building for Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific Region: Approaches and Resources, 2003 Asian Development Bank, Manila, 914-929 (1st ed - ISBN 971-561-423-X), (2^nd ed – ISBN 971-561-504-X)

The Applicability of the Jus in Bello Rules of International Humanitarian Law to the Use of Outer Space

(2006) 49 Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, 2007 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 338-347 (ISBN 1-56347-877-3)

The Impact of Space Tourism on the International Law of Outer Space

(2005) 48 Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, 2006 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 178-189 (ISBN 1-56347-827-7)

The Australian Regulatory Regime for Space Launch Activities: Out to Launch?
(2004) 47 Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, 2005 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 56-65 (ISBN 1-56347-783-1)

The Crystallisation of General Assembly Space Declarations into Customary International Law

(2003) 46 Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, 2004 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 122-130 (ISBN 1-56347-673-8) (with Ricky J Lee)

Property and Mining Rights for Lunar Mining Operations in the Absence of International Consensus on the Moon Agreement

(2003) 2 Proceedings of 54th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute of Space Law, 247-257 (with Ricky J Lee)

The Impact of Arms Limitation Agreements and Export Control Regulations on Launch Activities

(2002) 45 Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, 2003 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 321-330 (ISBN 1-56347-625-8) (with Ricky J Lee)

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly International Journal Articles (selected)

Legal Regulation of the Military Use of Outer Space

(2011) 41 Collegium – the Journal of the College of Europe 87-97 (also translated into French)

For Better or For Worse? The Use of ‘Soft Law’ within the International Legal Regulation of Outer Space

(2011) XXXVI Annals of Air and Space Law 409-445 (ISSN 0701-158XXXVI)

U.S Debt-for-Development Legislation: A Missed Opportunity to Enhance United States National Security?

(2011) 26:2 Banking & Finance Law Review 233-257 (ISSN 0832-8722) (with Ross Buckley)

In Heaven as on Earth? The International Legal Regulation of the Military Use of Outer Space

(2011) 8:3 US-China Law Review 272-287 (ISSN 1548-6605)

Can International Criminal Justice be Effective in Preventing War Crimes?’

(2011) 1 International Humanitarian Law Magazine 22-25, published by the Australian Red Cross

Sensing a Change? The Re-Launch of Australia’s Space Policy and Some Possible Legal Implications

(2010) 36:2 Journal of Space Law 381-413 (ISSN 0095-7577)

No Longer Acceptable: The Exclusion of the Death Penalty under International Criminal Law

(2010) 15:2 Australian Journal of Human Rights 1-34 (ISSN 1323-238X)

Between Heaven and Earth: The Legal Challenges of Human Space Travel
(2010) 66:11/12 Acta Astronautica 1597-1607 (ISSN 0094-5765) (with Tanja Masson-Zwaan)

More than Hot Air: Reflections on the Relationship between Climate Change and Human Rights

(2010) 14 University of Western Sydney Law Journal 101-135 (ISSN 1446-9294) (with Laura Horn)

A Prosecution too far? Reflections on the Accountability of Heads of State under International Criminal Law

(2010) 41:2 Victoria University Wellington Law Review 179-204 (ISSN 1171-042X)

Fly me to the Moon? How will International Law cope with Commercial Space Tourism?
(2010) 11:1 Melbourne Journal of International Law 90-118 (ISSN 1444-8602)

Debt-for-Development-Exchanges: Using External Debt to Mitigate Environmental Damage in Developing Countries

(2010) 16:1 West Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 77-101 (ISSN 1080-0735) (with Ross P. Buckley)

From Star Wars to Space Wars - The Next Strategic Frontier: Paradigms to Anchor Space Security

(2008) 33 Air and Space Law 10-37 (ISSN 0927-3379) (with Jackson Maogoto)

Mere Children or Weapons of War - Child Soldiers and International Law
(2008) 29 University of La Verne Law Review 19-55 (ISSN 0160-2098)

Space Weaponization and the United Nations Charter: A Thick Legal Fog or a Receding Mist?

(2007) 41:4 The International Lawyer 1091-1119 (ISSN 0020-7810) (with Jackson Maogoto)

The Internationalization of Justice – A Case for the Universal Application of International Criminal Norms

(2007) 4 New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 45-66 (ISSN 1176-6417)

The Final Frontier: The Laws of Armed Conflict and Space Warfare
(2007) 23(1) Connecticut Journal of International Law 165-195 (ISSN 0897-1218) (with Jackson Maogoto)

Teaching International Law Across an Urban Divide: Reflections on an Improvisation
(2007) 57(4) Journal of Legal Education 539-561 (ISSN 0022-2208) (with Fleur Johns)

Towards Universal Justice – Why Countries in the Asia / Pacific Region should Embrace the International Criminal Court

(2007) 5 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 49-76 (ISSN 1176-3930)

How Open Should the Door Be? - Declarations by non-States Parties under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

(2006) 75(2) Nordic Journal of International Law 211-241 (ISSN 0902-7351)

Educating Lawyers for Transnational Challenges – The Globalizaton of Legal Regulation

(2005) 55(4) Journal of Legal Education 500-506 (ISSN 0022-2208)

Co-operation or Chaos? - Article 65 of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Future of the International Whaling Commission

(2005) 2 Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law 1-36 (ISSN 1448-8345) (with Julie Drysdale)

Up, Up and …. Back: The Emergence of Space Tourism and its Impact on the International Law of Outer Space

(2005) 6(1) Chicago Journal of International Law 1-22 (ISSN 1529-0816)

Human Rights, the Environment and Conflict – Addressing Crimes against the Environment
(2005) 2 United Nations SUR International Journal on Human Rights 112-139 (ISSN 1806-6445) (also translated into Spanish and Portuguese)

Child Soldiers and International Crimes – How Should International Law be Applied?
(2005) 3 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 303-328 (ISSN 1176-3930)

Crossing the Language and Cultural Divide - The Challenges of Educating Asian Law Students in a Globalising World

(2004) 14(2) Legal Education Review 219-238 (ISSN 1033-2839) (with Grace Li and Angus Young)
and
(2005) 41(1) Beijing College of Political Science and Law Journal 50-58 (ISSN 1672-9285) (translated into Chinese by Shi Yubing)

The International Court of Justice and Recent Orders on Provisional Measures
(2004) 11 Australian International Law Journal 47-66 (ISSN 1325-5029) (with Alexis Goh)

When Laws are Not Enough – the Stalled Development of an Australian Space Launch Industry
(2004) 8 University of Western Sydney Law Journal 79-95 (ISSN 1446-9294)

The Bombing of Kosovo and the Milosevic Trial: Reflections on Some Legal Issues
(2002) Australian International Law Journal 150-175 (ISSN 1325-5029)

Turning to a Trusted Friend: Using Debt Exchanges for Environmental and Development Purposes

(2001) Australian International Law Journal 90-142 (ISSN 1325-5029)

Universal Jurisdiction in the Netherlands – the right approach but the wrong case? Bouterse and the December Murders

(2001) 7(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 91-96 (ISSN 1323-238X) (with Pita Schimmelpennick)

The Kyoto Protocol – An Agreement Without a Future?
(2001) 24(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 532-542 (ISSN 0313-0096)
and
(2001) 7(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum 2-8

There’s a Satellite in My Backyard – MIR and the Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects

(2001) 24(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 462-484 (ISSN 0313-0096)

Conferences/Public Speeches 

(selected – from 2007)

2011

The International Criminal Court – Recent Developments and Future Challenges

Presentation (invited) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Vienna, 17 January 2011

Regulation of the Military Uses of Outer Space

Presentation (invited) to sub-Committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) Legal Sub-Committee, Vienna, 19 January 2011

United Nations Initiatives to Regulate the Military Uses of Outer Space

Presentation (invited) Faculty of Law, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 24 February 2011

The Role of ‘Soft Law’ in Public International Law

Presentation (invited) at conference entitled “Soft Law’ in Outer Space: The Function of Non-binding Norms in International Space Law’ to the Legal Sub-committee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, sponsored by the University of Vienna, United Nations, Vienna, 2 April 2011

International Humanitarian Law and Codifying Constraints on Space Warfare

Presentation (invited) at 10^th Annual Space Security Conference, sponsored by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, United Nations, Geneva, 4-5 April 2011

Commercial Space Regulation in Australia – a Mismatch between Form and Need? Presentation (invited) at 5^th Annual Lincoln Space Law Conference, University of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, 18 -19 April 2011

The International Criminal Court – Recent Developments and Future Challenges

Public Lecture (invited) University of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, 20 April 2011

The Next Twenty Years of International Criminal Justice

Public lecture (invited) sponsored by the Atlantic Club, Sofia, Bulgaria, 20 May 2011

Preventing and Arms Race in Space

Public lecture (invited) sponsored by the University of Sofia and Space Challenges 2011, Sofia University, Bulgaria, 20 May 2011

The International Law of Outer Space – Major Challenges for Future Legal Regulation

Public Lecture (invited) sponsored by the Italian Society for International Organization, the Italian Space Agency and the Institute for International Legal Studies, Rome, 30 May 2011

The Law of the International Criminal Tribunals: Am Amalgam of Common Law and Civil Law?

Public Lecture (invited) sponsored by the National Council of Research for Italy and Faculty of Law, La Sapienza University, Rome, 31 May 2011

The Diversity of Approach within International Criminal Tribunals: A Road to (in)Consistency?

Public Lecture (invited) sponsored by the Danish Centre of Legal and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen, 7 June 2011

Dancing with the Stars: What the Legal Regulation of Outer Space Means for You

Faculty Presentation (invited) Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, 8 June 2011

The Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice - 'Success' Despite the Limitations?

Presentation (by invitation) at 19th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL), 'The Promise and Limits of International Law', Canberra, 23-25 June, 2011

Referrals to the International Criminal Court: A (Political) Pathway to Peace and Justice?

Humanitarian Law Perspectives 2011, sponsored by the Australian Red Cross, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sydney 18 August 2011

Whose Mess is it Anyway? Regulating the Environmental Consequences of Commercial Launch Activities

54^th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, Cape Town, South Africa, 5 October 2011 (with Donna Lawler)

The Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice - 'Success' Despite the Limitations?

in house presentation (invited) School of Law, University of Western Sydney, 17 October 2011

Commercial Aspects of Space Related Transactions

Williams Roberts, lawyers, Sydney 8 November 2011

International Criminal Justice

University of Western Sydney ‘10K Youth Leadership Mater Class’, Sydney 10 December 2011

2010

The International Law of Outer Space – Some Contemporary Issues
Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 22 January 2010

Perspectives on the Relationship between the International Criminal Tribunals and the International Court of Justice
Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 22 January 2010

The Military Uses of Outer Space

Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 11 February 2010

Legal Aspects of NEO Threat Response and Related Institutional Issues

Presentation to a plenary session of the 47^th Session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), United Nations Offices, Vienna, 15 February 2010

Matching Detail with Practice: The Essential Elements of National Space Legislation
Presentation to a plenary session of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), sponsored by the International Institute of Space Law (based in Paris) and the European Centre for Space Law (based in Vienna), United Nations Offices, Vienna, 22 March 2010

The International Law of Outer Space – Some Contemporary Issues

Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the University of Sofia and The Atlantic Club, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 May 2010

The Appropriateness of the Moon Agreement for Lunar Exploration and Use

Invited conference presentation to the United Nations Global Lunar Conference, co-sponsored by the International Astronautical Federation and the Chinese Society of Astronautics, Beijing 31 May-3 June 2010 (with Ram Jakhu and Stephan Hobe)

Sensing a Change? The re-launch of Australia’s Space Policy and Some Possible Legal Implications

Workshop presentation to ‘Earth Observation, the Environment, Space, and Remote Sensing Law in the Pacific Rim’, sponsored by The National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law, University of Mississippi, held in Hawaii 16 – 18 June 2010

Perspectives on the Relationship between the International Criminal Tribunals and the International Court of Justice

Public Speech (invited) given to Legal Studies Students from 9 schools in the northern suburbs (240 students), St Ives High School, Sydney, 6 September 2010

Lost in Space? The Changing Nature of Australia’s Space Policy

Presentation (invited) at 53^rd Colloquium on the International Law of Outer Space, The International Institute of Space Law, Prague, 27 September-1 October 2010

Legal Regulation of the Military use of Outer Space: What role for International Humanitarian Law Presentation (by invitation) at 11^th Annual Bruges Colloquium on International Humanitarian Law ‘Technological Challenges for the Humanitarian Law Framework’, sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva) and the College of Europe (Bruges), Bruges, Belgium, 21-22 October 2010

Developing the Procedural Law of the International Criminal Tribunals

Public speech (invited) sponsored by the Australian Red Cross and Mallesons, Sydney, 13 October 2010

Prosecuting Heads of State

Public speech (by invitation) sponsored by Middletons, Solicitors, Sydney 9 November 2010

2009

Crimes Against the Environment – A Role for the International Criminal Court?
Presentation (by invitation) Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, 27 January

The Role of Developing Countries in the Development of the International Law of Outer Space
Public Lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 27 February 2009

Australia and Denmark – A Comparative Analysis of International Law Perspectives
Presentation (by invitation) Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 January 2009

International Law and the Commercial Uses of Outer Space

Public lecture (by invitation) to the European Law Students Association, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 5 February 2009

The Law of the International Criminal Tribunals – an Amalgam of Common Law and Civil Law?

Presented address (by invitation) at a conference entitled ‘Comparative Law and Legal Cultures’ sponsored by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of Lund, Sweden, Helsingor, Denmark, 29 March 2009

The Implementation of the United Nations Space Debris Guidelines
Presentation (by invitation) at a conference ‘International Interdisciplinary Congress on Space Debris’ sponsored by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (Vienna, Austria), The McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law (Montreal, Canada), The Cologne University Institute of Air and Space Law (Cologne, Germany), The International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (Katwijk, The Netherlands), Montreal 7-9 May 2009

The International Criminal Court – Challenges for the Future

Presentation (invited) at an in-house seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 18 May 2009

The Internationalization of Justice and the Bashir Arrest Warrant
Presentation (invited) at an in-house seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Padua, Italy, 22 May 2009

The Moon Agreement

Conference presentation (invited) at the Second Authors’ Workshop of the Cologne Commentary on Space Law (CoCoSL), sponsored by the Institute of Air and Space Law (Cologne, Germany), the German Aerospace Centre (Bonn, Germany) and the European Space Policy Institute, Bonn, Germany 18 June 2009 (with Stephan Hobe and Ram Jakhu)

The Problems of Space Debris
Presentation (invited) at an in-house seminar, Institute of Air and Space Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne, Germany, 22 June 2009

Child Soldiers and International Law

Public speech (by invitation) sponsored by the NSW Young Lawyers Association and DLA Phillips Fox, Sydney, 15 July 2009

The International Law of Outer Space – Some Contemporary Issues

Presentation (by invitation) to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Canberra, 17 July 2009

Impunity and Immunity? Prosecuting Heads of State

Public Speech (by invitation) sponsored by the Australian Red Cross and Mallesons, Solicitors, Sydney, 4 August 2009

The International Law of Outer Space: Finding Solutions to Contemporary Issues

Public Speech (by invitation) sponsored by the National Space Society of Australia, Power House Museum, Sydney, 8 September 2009

The International Criminal Court: Challenges for the Future

Public Speech (by invitation) sponsored by the Legal Studies Teachers Association of NSW, Sydney, 14 September 2009

Australia’s Growing Role in Outer Space Activities – A Future Imperative
Public Speech (by invitation) sponsored by the Italian Embassy and the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 21 October 2009

2008

The “Non-Appropriation” Principle under Space Law and its place within International Law
Presented (by invitation) at the First Authors’ Workshop of the Cologne Commentary on Space Law (CoCoSL), Vienna, Austria 10-11 January 2008, sponsored by the Institute of Air and Space Law (Cologne, Germany), the German Aerospace Centre (Bonn, Germany) and the European Space Policy Institute (Vienna, Austria)

The Application of International Humanitarian Law to the Military Uses of Outer Space
Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by The Red Cross of The Netherlands, the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Amsterdam Centre for International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands, 21 February 2008

International Law at the Cross-Roads?
Public Lecture (by invitation) University of Leiden, The Netherlands, 15 February 2008

The Relevance of International Space Law for Global Issues of Concern

Public Lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the Danish Branch of the Comité Maritime International and International Law Association, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 May 2008

The Implications of Space Tourism for the Insurance Industry
Seminar (by invitation) sponsored by Swiss Re, Zurich, Switzerland, 7 May 2008

Private Human Access to Space - Legal Challenges and Possibilities

Presentation (by invitation) of conference paper at 1^st IAA Symposium on Private Manned Access to Space, Arcachon, France, May 28 – 30, 2008 (with Tania Masson-Zwaan)

The International Law of Outer Space and its Relevance for Space Business

Presentation (by invitation) of conference paper at 10^th Australian Space Development Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 21-23 July 2008

The 2008 Russia / China Proposal for a Treaty to Ban Weapons in Space: A Missed Opportunity or an Opening Gambit?
Presentation (by invitation) of paper for presentation at 51^st Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, Glasgow, Scotland, 1 October 2008

The International Criminal Court: Challenges for the Future
Public Lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the Sydney Centre for International Law and the International Law Association, Sydney, 28 October 2008

Article Thirty-Nine

Guest Speaker (by invitation) at a concert to raise funds for former child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 23 November 2008

The International Responsibility to Protect

Guest speaker (by invitation) at ‘Breaking Down Barriers’, a student social justice conference, Sydney University, 30 November 2008

The International Criminal Court – Recent Developments

Public speech (by invitation) sponsored by Middletons, Solicitors, Sydney 20 November 2008

2007

Current Challenges Facing the International Criminal Court

In-house seminar (by invitation) School of Law, University of New South Wales 22 October 2007

Child Soldiers and International Law 

The ‘Solferino Lecture’ (by invitation) sponsored by the Centre for International and Public Law and the International Humanitarian Law Committee of the Australian Red Cross, Canberra, Australia, 27 September 2007

The Application of International Humanitarian Law to the Military Uses of Outer Space

Keynote address (by invitation) at seminar ‘New Developments in International Humanitarian Law’ sponsored by the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, New Zealand Red Cross and Victoria University, Wellington, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1 September, 2007

Challenges Facing the International Criminal Court

Public seminar (by invitation) to the International Law Division of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canberra, Australia, 27 September 2007

The Recruitment of Child Soldiers – How International Law Has Reacted

Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the Australian Red Cross and Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Solicitors, Sydney, Australia, 14 August 2007

The Applicability of International Humanitarian Law to the Weaponization of Outer Space

Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the T.M.C. Asser Centre and the Grotius Centre for International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands, 7 June 2007

International Criminal Court: Challenges for the Future

Public lecture (by invitation) sponsored by the Danish Foreign Ministry, The Danish International Law Association and the Comité Maritime International, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10 May 2007

Space Law and Aviation Law – a Marriage Made (not quite) in Heaven?

Keynote address (by invitation) at 28th Annual Conference of the Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia, 2-4 May 2007

Newspaper Opinion Pieces (from 2005)

Catching up in the space race

The Canberra Times, 11 April 2011, page 9 col. 1

We lack laws to combat the most grave of violations

Weekendavisen (Danish National newspaper), 10 September 2010, page 13 col 1 (in Danish) (with Pernille Walther)

Furthering the reach of international justice
The National Times 16 July 2010

The Hague is working to ‘put an end to impunity’
The Canberra Times 14 July 2010, page 19 col 1

Taking Japan to Court puts more Whales in Danger
The Australian, 21 June 2010, page 14 col 3

Compromise may be the best means of protecting whales
The Canberra Times 18 June 2010, page 23 col 1

Dearth of Australian space presence highlighted
The Canberra Times 12 June 2010, page 27 col 1

Space jump better late than never
The Age 7 June 2010, page 11 col 1

Children with Kalashnikovs
Jyllands-Posten 18 May, 2010, page 16 col 1 (in Danish) (with Pernille Walther)

Innocence lost as recruitment of children continues
The Sydney Morning Herald 15 February 2010, page 11 col 2

Australia can lead on child soldiers
The Canberra Times 12 February 2010, page 21 col 7

It’s time to talk about human rights in the climate debate
The Age 10 December 2009, page 23 col 1

One small step for man, a giant leap for lawyers
The Sydney Morning Herald 20 July 2009, page 11 col 1 (with Donna Lawler)

The race we should contest
The Courier-Mail 20 July 2009, page 24 col 1 (with Donna Lawler)

The stark truth of foreign prisons
The Sydney Morning Herald 13 July 2009, page 11 col 1

Regulating Wars – The Rights of Innocents
Berlingske 25 June 2009, page 9 col 1 (in Danish) (with Pernille Walther)

War laws need an upgrade
The Canberra Times 24 June 2009, page 11 col 1

A mixed report card on human rights anniversary
The Canberra Times 10 December 2008 at 13 col 1

Our fundamental human rights can never be taken for granted
The Age 10 December 2008 at 15 col 1

Destroying the environment is also a war crime
The Canberra Times 6 November 2008 at 23 col 1

World justice in state of evolution
The Courier-Mail 16 July 2008 at 28 col 2

World’s political will to eradicate evil is on trial
The Australian 16 July 2008 at 14 col 1

Whale saviours face hard choices
The Courier-Mail 20 November 2007 at 24 col 2

Armed killers of childhood
The Canberra Times 4 October 2007 at 19 col 1

Law plays catch-up on child soldier issue
The Courier-Mail 25 September 2007 at 25 col 1

Think local for global justice
The Courier-Mail 13 July 2007 at 30 col 2

Commission must compromise for sake of world’s whales
The Canberra Times 28 May 2007 at 17 col 1

Justice on trial
The Courier-Mail 7 November 2006 at 21 col 1

Is it Iraqi justice – or revenge?
The Canberra Times 7 November 2006 at 9 col 1

Saddam trial underlines need to take tough stand on genocide
The Canberra Times 29 August 2006 at 11 col 1

Management a better option than stalemate
The Canberra Times 8 June 2006 at 11 col 1

Milosevic will not cheat the verdict of historians
The Canberra Times 14 March 2006 at 11 col 1

Rule of law should not be applied selectively
The Canberra Times 23 February 2006 at 15 col 1

Going wrong on rights
The Age 21 February 2006 at 11 col 1

Commercial whaling will return, like it or not
The Canberra Times 22 June 2005 at 17 col 1

Harpoons will keep on flying
The Australian 20 June 2005 at 15 col 6

Corby case a lesson
The Courier-Mail 25 May 2005 at 19 col 1

Corby case a timely reminder of travel risks
The Canberra Times 25 May 2005 at 17 col 1

Plans for terror court put legal rights at risk
The Age 30 March 2005 at 27 col 7

Alone in the dock
The Australian 29 March 2005 at 11 col 1

No legal short-cuts to containing terrorism
The Canberra Times 24 March 2005 at 19 col 5

All Australians, no matter where, have a right to a fair trial
The Canberra Times 8 March 2005 at 9 col 1

Inaction over Darfur Inexcusable
The Canberra Times 11 February 2005 at 15 col 1

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