Please welcome the New Faculty of Law Members In 2023
The Faculty of Law welcomed 5 new scholars in 2023 and we’ve got 2 more starting in Jan 2024.
Professor Andrew Choo
Professor Andrew Choo (starting 8 Jan 2024) joins us from the City Law School in London where he has been a Professor of Law since 2012 and is also the immediate past Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise). Professor Choo has held professorships of law at Brunel University and the University of Warwick. His research interests include evidence and procedure, especially criminal evidence. His published work has been cited in judgments in the decisions of various appellate courts, including the House of Lords, the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, the Supreme Court of Canada, the High Court of Australia, the New Zealand Supreme Court and the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Andrew is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn
Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn joins us from the University of Cambridge, where she has been Professor of Child and Family Law in the Faculty of Law, and a Director of the Cambridge Family Law Centre. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of International Studies and a Diploma of Languages (Spanish). She then obtained a BCL (with distinction) from Oxford University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her primary research interests are in children’s rights, comparative law, and international human rights law.
Associate Professor Samantha Currie
Associate Professor Samantha Currie was a Reader at the University of Liverpool. She led a Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre project on access to legal advice and representation for survivors of modern slavery (2020-21). In January 2021, she took up a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in order to conduct a socio-legal investigation into the role of lawyers who represent victims of trafficking. Her areas of expertise include: trafficking in human beings; legal responses to modern slavery; migration and its impact on family life; EU law on free movement of persons; and gender and migration and the cross-border posting of workers.
Associate Professor Calvin Ho
Associate Professor Calvin Ho (starting 8 Jan 2024) was trained in law at the National University of Singapore and the University of Cambridge, and he holds a doctorate in juridical science from Cornell University (New York). He qualified as Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, as Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK). He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Economic Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Master of Science in Financial Economics at SOAS University of London. He has published extensively on law and bioethics on matters relating to emerging health technologies (including Artificial Intelligence) and global health law and ethics.
Associate Professor Cheng-Yun (‘CY’) Tsang
Associate Professor Cheng-Yun (‘CY’) Tsang joins us from the National Chengchi University of Taiwan (NCCU). He teaches FinTech and the Law, Banking Law, and Governance of Global Finance at NCCU. CY has served as a Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow with UNSW Law and was a member of UNSW Law’s Digital Financial Services Research Team. He also serves on the Board of Directors at the National Credit Card Center in Taiwan. CY received his SJD and LLM from Duke University School of Law, and his MBA from National Taiwan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Duke University School of Law.
Dr Elizabeth Sheargold
Dr Elizabeth Sheargold has been a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong since 2019. Prior to that, she held roles at Melbourne Law School (2013-2019), was a Legal Advisor at the Iran - United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague (2016-2017) and was Associate Director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School (2012-2013). Her research is in the field of international economic law, with a focus on how the rules of the WTO and international investment agreements impact on the ability of states to regulate for the protection of the environment and public health.
Scott Walker
Scott Walker completed his LLB(Hons) with Monash University in 2022. His Honours thesis was a critical analysis of the international human rights law compatibility of compulsory mental health treatment. Scott joined the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law as a researcher in 2023 having previously been a Research Assistant at the Centre, and involved in a number of research projects at Eleos Justice. Scott has been working on a number of parliamentary and UN submissions on dimensions of Human Rights law, including the implementation of the UNDRIP, the Voice to Parliament, and key economic and social rights, and he has been instrumental in coordinating the Centre’s relationships with lead institutions such as the Australian Human Rights Commission.