Rate My Professor Julie Debeljak

Julie Debeljak has been an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Law at Monash University since 2013, following progressive roles as Senior Lecturer (2007-2012), Lecturer (2002-2006), and Assistant Lecturer (1996-2001). She currently serves as Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and as Deputy Director (Research) of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, having previously been its foundational Deputy Director from 2000 to 2020. Debeljak holds a PhD in Law from Monash University, completed in 2004 with a thesis on comparative domestic human rights protection, an LLM (International) from the University of Cambridge (1997-1998), and a B.Ec/LLB (Hons). Throughout her nearly three-decade career at Monash, she teaches courses including LAW2111 Constitutional Law and LAW5304 Overview of International Human Rights Law, and accepts PhD supervision.

Debeljak researches international human rights law, comparative human rights law, domestic human rights institutions and laws, constitutional law, public law, human trafficking, human rights in closed environments, rights of indigenous peoples, and access to civil justice and human rights. She has co-edited the collections Law Making and Human Rights with Laura Grenfell, and Human Rights in Closed Environments with Bronwyn Naylor and Anita Mackay, and co-authored Transnational Crime and Human Rights: Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion with Susan Kneebone. Key publications include 'A new aged care act for Australia? Examining the Royal Commission’s proposal for human rights inclusive legislation' (2023, University of New South Wales Law Journal, with Anita Mackay and Laura Grenfell), 'Human rights accountability for systems of ill-treatment in residential aged care' (2022, Monash University Law Review, with Laura Grenfell and Anita M. Mackay), 'Of parole and public emergencies: why the Victorian charter override provision should be repealed' (2022, University of New South Wales Law Journal), and 'Re-charting the Victorian Charter of Human Rights: advancing enforcement in human rights legislation' and 'Re-charting the Victorian Charter of Human Rights: advancing equality in human rights legislation' (both 2024 chapters in The Feminist Legislation Project). She has been awarded two Australian Research Council Linkage grants on human trafficking responses (2006-2009) and human rights in closed environments (2009-2012), and a 25 Year Service Award. Debeljak has made 21 submissions to parliamentary and public inquiries, conducted human rights capacity building for governmental bodies, judiciary, NGOs, and private sector, and her scholarship is referenced extensively in reports such as the Inquiry into Australia's Human Rights Framework.