Ben Saul
Lecturer in Law, University of New South Wales (Australia); Researcher, Australian Centre for Human Rights
BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Syd) DPhil (Oxon), Ben Saul taught international law at Oxford University, lectured at the Refugee Studies Centre, and trained foreign diplomats in international law.
He has also been a legal expert for the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinians; has conducted human rights training of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal for UNHCR; monitored election violence in Sri Lanka for the ICJ; and assisted the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
Admitted as a lawyer in Australia, he was a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission; Chairperson of the NSW Attorney-General’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee; member of the NSW Premier’s Youth Advisory Council; and worked briefly in the Criminal Law Review Division of the NSW Attorney-General’s Department.
His research interests include public international law, particularly terrorism, international criminal law, humanitarian law, use of force, human rights, refugee law, United Nations law, electoral law; and criminal law.
He is co-author of Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia (with Mary Crock, Federation Press, Sydney, 2002; 2nd edition in 2005), and has published widely in international law journals.
Spoken languages
English
Written languages
English
Expert publications
- 07/02/2006 - Defining "Terrorism" to Protect Human Rights
