Helen Durham is a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School and Strategic Adviser, International Law for Australian Red Cross. She has a Doctorate of Juridical Science from The University of Melbourne. Her studies involved research at New York University, the UN and the ICTY in the Hague for which she was a recipicent of a Evans Grawemeyer Scholarship and a Queens Trust Fellowship.
Before joining The University of Melbourne, Helen was Regional Legal Adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This position involved assisting Governments in the Pacific region ratify and implement international humanitarian law (IHL) treaties and she continues to provide advice to the ICRC in this regard. During her time with ICRC Helen has undertaken short field missions in places such Burma and Aceh. She was part of the ICRC delegation at the negotiations for the International Criminal Court in New York and Rome.
Helen also spent five years as National Manager of IHL for Australian Red Cross; worked as a program Manager at Asialink and practiced as a solicitor for a few years at the law firm Holding Redlich.
Her major research interests are in the area of international public law and include international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Helen teaches 'Women, War and Peacebuilding' and 'International Criminal Law' in the LLM program and she is also engaged in research on the legal framework for the international deployment of Australian Federal Police.
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