Rate My Professor Jackie Mapulanga

Dr Jackie Mapulanga is a Lecturer in Curtin Law School at Curtin University, part of the Faculty of Business and Law. With more than 20 years of experience in legal academia and practice, she has held positions at Queensland University of Technology and Southern Cross University before joining Curtin. She teaches courses including Consumer and Competition Law, Health Safety and Environmental Law, Human Rights Law, and Law Society and Justice, for which she developed unit content. Her research interests encompass sustainable development, human rights—particularly economic, social, and cultural rights—public international law, health, international economic law, industrial law, family law, migration, food and sustainability, and gender-based violence in African contexts. Dr Mapulanga serves as the Western Australia Convenor for Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and is a member of Australasian Law Academics. She convened the inaugural Curtin Law School Human Rights Symposium in 2019 and has hosted panel discussions, such as one on human rights for future generations on Human Rights Day.

Dr Mapulanga's scholarly contributions include key publications such as 'Fungicide Resistance Management in West Australia's Wheatbelt' (Scientific Data, 2025, co-authored with Toto Olita, Billy Sung, Anjana Sharma, Zhanglong Cao, and Mark Gibberd); 'Asylum Seeker Children in Nauru: Australia's International Human Rights Obligations and Operational Challenges' (International Journal of Refugee Law, 2019, with Susanna Dechent and Sharmin Tania); 'Zambian Pentecostalism, Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights of Victims' (chapter in Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism, 2020, with Maureen Mapulanga Chikoya); 'The Ethical and Legal Conundrum: Should a Mother Owe a Duty of Care to her Unborn Child?' (2013, with Christina Do); and 'Examining Australia's Compliance to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Problems and Potential' (Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, 2009). Her work on Google Scholar has garnered 125 citations, reflecting impact in human rights, international law, and related fields. She contributes to editorial boards and supervises higher degree by research students.