Emeritus Professor Andrea Durbach
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听BA. LL.B (University of Cape Town)
听DipLaw (Solicitors' Admission Board), University of Sydney
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Andrea Durbach is Professor and was听Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre (now Institute) in听黑料网大事记 Law from 2004-2017.
Born and educated in South Africa, she practised as a political trial lawyer and human rights advocate, representing victims and opponents of apartheid laws. After leaving South Africa, Andrea initially worked as a solicitor at Freehills听Hollingdale and Page in Sydney before joining the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) as Head of Legal Practice, subsequently becoming PIAC's Executive Director.听Andrea has held senior positions in the human rights field, including as Deputy Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2011-2012) and as a consultant to the Australian Defence Abuse Response Taskforce to develop a framework to address the needs of Defence Force victims of gender-based violence and to prevent harmful conduct. She is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian听Academy of Law and in 2013, she was听awarded the听Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Law Award for her promotion and advancement of human rights in Australia through the practice of law.
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- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
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ARC Discovery Grant (DP140102274), Combating sexual violence against women post-conflict through 鈥榯ransformative鈥 reparations: problems and prospects (with Louise Chappell and Sarah Williams) $375,000 (2014-2016)
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The Caledonia Foundation grant to fund Strengthening Australian university responses to sexual assault and harassment project $150,000 (2015)
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Australian Human Rights Commission/Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade grant to develop educational resource on LGBTI rights for 16 African members of the听Commonwealth Forum of National Human Rights Institutions $30,000 (2013-2014)
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Law School Workshop Support Scheme grant, Law and Poverty in Australia: 40 years after the Sackville Report (with Brendan Edgeworth and Vicki Sentas) $10,000 (2014)
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UNESCO Australian National Commission Grants Scheme, Intersecting Heritage and Human Rights Workshop听and resultant publication (with Lucas Lixinski) $4,840 (2013-2014)
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ARC Linkage Grant (LP0776639): Building Human Rights in the Region through Horizontal Transnational Networks: the Role of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (with Professor Andrew Byrnes) $215,000 from ARC, and $75,000 from the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions) (2007-2010)
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University of New South Wales/Goldstar: Structural, Social and Behavioural Influences on Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Impact Mitigation in Australia (Andrea Durbach, Michael Humphrey, Niamh Stephenson, Heather Worth, Anthony Zwi, Daniel Tarantola) $30,000.00听(2007-2009)
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黑料网大事记 Law Faculty Award for Impact and Engagement (2017)
Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Law Award for the promotion and advancement of human rights in Australia through the practice of law (2013)
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Books
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Andrea Durbach, Upington, Allen & Unwin, Sydney (1999)听(published in South Africa by David Phillip, Cape Town 1999 and in America as A Common Purpose, Continuum, New York, 2002)听听Short-listed for the Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award, 1999
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Andrea Durbach (ed), Law and Poverty in Australia 鈥 40 Years after the Poverty Commission, (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2017) (co-edited with Brendan Edgeworth and Vicki Sentas)
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Andrea Durbach (ed), Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017) (co-edited with Lucas Lixinski)
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Book chapters
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Andrea Durbach, Towards Reparative Transformation: Revisiting the Impact of Violence against Women in a Post-TRC South Africa, in Ros Dixon and Theunis Roux (eds), Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution鈥檚 Local and International Influence, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 174-198听
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Andrea Durbach and Rosemary Grey, Grounds for concern: an Australian perspective on responses to sexual assault and harassment in university settings in Sundari Anitha and Ruth Lewis (eds), Gender based violence in university communities 鈥 Policy, prevention and educational initiative, Policy Press, 2018, 83-104
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Andrea Durbach, 鈥楤etween the Idea and the Reality鈥 Securing Access to Justice in an Environment of Declining Points of Entry, in Brendan Edgeworth, Andrea Durbach, Vicki Sentas (eds), Law and Poverty in Australia 鈥 40 Years after the Poverty Commission, The Federation Press, 2017, 214-230
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Andrea Durbach, Cultural Heritage as Transformation: a study of four sites from post-apartheid South Africa, in Andrea Durbach and Lucas Lixinski (eds), Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses, Hart Publishing, 2017, 205-226
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Andrea Durbach, Human rights commissions in times of trouble and transition: the case of the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal, in Hitoshi Nasu and Ben Saul (eds), Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building, (London: Routledge, 2011), 209-234
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Andrea Durbach, The Right to Legal Aid in Social Rights Litigation听in Malcolm Langford (ed), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 59-71
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Andrea Durbach, Conscientious participation: working the law back to its bones听in Rosemary Hunter and Mary Keyes (eds), Changing Law 鈥 Rights, Regulation and Reconciliation, Aldershot: Ashgate - Law, Justice and Power series (2005) 155-178
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Journal articles
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Andrea Durbach and Lucy Geddes, 鈥To shape our own lives and our own world鈥: exploring women鈥檚 hearings as reparative mechanisms for victims of sexual violence post-conflict, (2017) 21(9) International Journal of Human Rights 1261-1280
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Andrea Durbach, Louise Chappell, Sarah Williams, Foreword: Special Issue on Transformative Reparations for Sexual Violence Post-conflict: Prospects and Problems (2017) 21 (9) International Journal of Human Rights, 1185-1192
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Andrea Durbach and Louise Chappell, Notes from the field: 鈥淣othing about us, without us, is for us鈥: Victims and the International Criminal Justice System (in conversation with Maxine Marcus, International Crimes Prosecutor and Investigator and Expert in Transformative Justice for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence) (2017) 21 (9) International Journal of Human Rights, 1337-1346
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Andrea Durbach, 鈥An essential intervention鈥: Civil society responses to redressing and preventing violence against women in post-apartheid South Africa (2016) Acta Juridica 218-240; (republished as a chapter in Sarah Williams and Hannah Woolaver (eds), Civil Society and International Criminal Justice in Africa 鈥 Challenges and Opportunities, (Juta, Cape Town, 2016)
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Andrea Durbach, Towards Reparative Transformation: Revisiting the Impact of Violence against Women in a Post-TRC South Africa, (2016) 10 International Journal of Transitional Justice 366-387
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Andrea Durbach, Of trials, reparation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa: the making of 鈥楢 Common Purpose鈥 (2015) 60(2) New York Law School Law Review 409-431
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