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Author: Joanna Kyriakakis

Joanna is a Senior Lecturer at the Monash Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of corporate accountability, international criminal law, animal law, human rights, transitional justice, and legal theory.

Joanna is a Senior Lecturer at the Monash Faculty of Law and a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of corporate accountability, international criminal law, animal law, human rights, transitional justice, and legal theory.

Another chimpanzee personhood claim fails, but there’s hope yet

Published August 4, 2015August 17, 2015 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Nonhuman Rights
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The 2015 Human Rights Report – The International Criminal Court’s Africa Problem

Published May 18, 2015May 15, 2015 by Joanna Kyriakakis in International Criminal Court, Kenya, Sudan
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The Debate about having a debate about a business and human rights treaty

Published February 17, 2015 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Corporations and human rights
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Rights and the non-human animal

Published January 22, 2015January 22, 2015 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Freedom from arbitrary detention, Nonhuman Rights
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2014 Castan Human Rights Report: Corporations now less accountable

Published April 30, 2014June 2, 2014 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Australia, Corporations and human rights, United States
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Too big to be sued? US Supreme Court further limits corporate human rights litigation

Published February 3, 2014 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Corporations and human rights, United States
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Shell Has No Case to Answer on Nigeria

Published April 26, 2013 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Corporations and human rights, United States
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Torture Inc: how far do corporate interests stretch when human rights are at stake?

Published October 12, 2012 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Corporations and human rights, United States
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Lessons from the Chamberlain case: the human cost of wrongful conviction

Published June 19, 2012 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Criminal law, Death penalty, Right to a fair trial
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Pirates Incorporated: The US Supreme Court to decide if corporations are liable under the Alien Tort Statute

Published March 5, 2012March 6, 2012 by Joanna Kyriakakis in Corporations and human rights, United States
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