John Tobin has a combined commerce/law degree with honours from the University of Melbourne and an LLM with distinction from the University of London specialising in human rights law. Since 2001 he has worked in the Law Faculty at the University of Melbourne where he is a Senior Lecturer and has designed and taught several subjects including Human Rights Litigation and Advocacy, International Human Rights Law, International Law, and International Law and Children's Rights. He also co-supervises the Graduate International Legal Internship. He has been a Visiting Professor at the American Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, in the Law School at New York University. John has published numerous reports and articles on human rights and provided human rights training and advice as a consultant and on a pro bono basis on numerous occasions to organisations such as UNICEF, the Victorian Law Reform Commissions, the Equal Opportunity Commission, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre, NGOs, statutory bodies, Government Departments and community groups. He is a Director of Childwise, a leading NGO which campaigns against the sexual exploitation of children in the Asia Pacific, an Advisory Board member of the Melbourne Journal of International Law, an Advisory Committee member and occasional chair of the Human Rights Legal Resource Centre and a member of the Steering Committee for the Human Rights Forum, an interdisciplinary committee at the University of Melbourne. He has also worked in numerous capacities as a solicitor including as a commercial lawyer, legal aid lawyer and legal officer with the Department of Justice. He is currently working on a comprehensive commentary to the Convention on the Rights of the Child with Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007.
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