Dr Jennifer Beard is a barrister as well as an academic. In addition to holding a senior lectureship at Melbourne University, Jennifer has been a visiting fellow at the University of British Columbia Law School in Canada where she taught a PhD Seminar on Legal Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law; a teacher of International Law, Trade and Development in the LLM Programme in the Department of International Law and Human Rights at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica; and a visiting fellow at the University of Lund Law School in Sweden where she works in collaboration with Professor Gregor Noll on an analysis of the RHD processes of the UNHCR.
Jennifer teaches property law, international law and international law and development at either a graduate or undergraduate level. Jennifer undertakes research and writing in the fields of international law, law and development and critical legal theory and ethics. She has published a book called The Political Economy of Desire: International Law, Development and the Nation State (Cavendish-Routledge 2007). She has two further books due to be published in 2008: one is a text co-edited with Dr Andrew Mitchell on Public International Law; the other is a critical text on Law and Development (co-authored with Sundhya Pahuja). At the Bar, Jennifer's practice areas include public law, statutory interpretation, policy formulation and public interest litigation (see http://www.mcnaught.com.au).
