Alison Duxbury joined the Law School in 2001. She holds bachelor degrees in Arts and Laws (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Pegasus Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar. Alison's PhD thesis explores the role of human rights and democracy in determining the participation of states in international organisations. Following her undergraduate degrees, Alison worked at Blake Dawson Waldron and was admitted to practice in 1994. Prior to her appointment at Melbourne, Alison worked at the London office of Clifford Chance and Monash University.
Alison is a member of the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee (Victorian Division), the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative based in Delhi, Accra and London. In 2007-2008 she was Convenor of the University's Human Rights Forum. In 2000, Alison was a Dame Lillian Penson Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London, and in 2004 and 2006 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. In first semester 2009 she taught International Institutions and International Humanitarian Law at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London, a joint venture between 11 global law schools. Alison has undertaken advice work in the areas of international law and human rights, and has published in Australian and overseas law journals in these fields. She has recent publications in the Singapore Yearbook of International Law (on regional institutions in Asia) and the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (the report of the Australian correspondent). She is currently working on a book on the participation of states in international organisations to be published by Cambridge University Press.
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Convenor, University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum
Advisory Board, Melbourne Journal of International Law
Member of the Knowledge Transfer Committee
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Member of the Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (based in Delhi, Accra and London)
Member of the International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee, Australian Red Cross (Victorian Division)
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International law
Member of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law
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