Andrew Byrnes Author & Editor

Andrew Byrnes is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW), where he served as Chair of the Australian Human Rights Centre based in the UNSW Law School from 2005–17. He teaches and writes in the fields of public international law, human rights, and international criminal/humanitarian law. He serves on the Board of the Diplomacy Training Program and was President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law from 2009 to 2013. From November 2012 until September 2014 he was external legal adviser to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. Gabrielle Simm is Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales Law School. She is the author of Sex in Peace Operations (Cambridge, 2013) and has research interests in international law, refugee and migration law. Prior to becoming an academic, she was an international lawyer in the Australian government, a diplomat in Southeast Asia, and a refugee lawyer in Melbourne.