Associate Professor Amanda Alexander

Associate Professor Amanda Alexander

Associate Professor

Amanda Alexander is an Associate Professor in the Thomas More Law School. She is an expert in international humanitarian law, international criminal law, legal theory and law and literature. Her research focuses on the history of the law of armed conflict and its transformation into international humanitarian law. It has been published in leading Australian and international journals, including the European Journal of International Law and the Melbourne Journal of International Law.

Amanda is an editor and Secretary at the Australian Feminist Law Journal, and co-convenor of the History and Theory of International Law Interest Group in the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. She was a visiting early career fellow at the Laureate Program in International law at the University of Melbourne.

Amanda was awarded her PhD from the Australian National University for her thesis on the history of the civilian in international law. She has a Master of Laws in Legal Theory and History from the University of London, which she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake, and a BA(Hons)/LLB from the University of New South Wales.