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MS AMANDA JANE WHITING



Contact Details

Organization: Law
Position: LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/staff/Amanda%20Whiting
Work: +61 3 834 44157
Room: 0717
Level: 07
Building: Law Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Human Rights and Civil Society in South East Asia Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Fiji, Philippines
Legal History Gender England

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1981
Graduate Diploma in Education University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1988
Graduate Diploma University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1995
Bachelor of Laws University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2001
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 17-Dec-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
"The Media and ASEAN Transitions: Defamation Law, Journalism and Public Debate in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Desecularising Malaysian law?
    Year: 2008
    Book: Examining Practice, Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Mixed Blessings: Laws, Religions, and Women's Rights in the Asia Pacific Region
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Book Chapters

  • In the Shadow of Developmentalism: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia at the Intersection of state and Civil Society Priorities
    Year: 2006
    Book: Human Rights and Development: Law, Policy and Governance
    Publisher: LexisNexis
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  • Situating the Issues, Framing the Analysis
    Year: 2006
    Book: Mixed Blessings: Laws, Religions, and Women's Rights in the Asia-Pacfic Region
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Some women can shift it well enough: A legal context for understanding the women petitioners of the seventeenth-century English revolution
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Feminist Law Journal
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 77-100
    Publisher: Australian Feminist Law Foundation
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Situating Suhakam: Human rights debates and Malaysia's National Human Rights Commission
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Stanford Journal of International Law
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 59-98
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