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PROF TIM MCCORMACK



Contact Details

Organization: Law
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/staff/Tim%20McCormack
Work: +61 3 8344 6595
Fax: +61 3 8344 0054
Room: 0944
Level: 09
Building: Law Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, Arms Control and Disarmament, National Implementation of International Law Australia, Netherlands

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Laws University of Tasmania
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Law Institute of Victoria President's Award for Oustanding Pro Bono Service 10-Nov-2005
Other (Award) University of Tasmania Oustanding Graduate Award 20-Mar-2003
Medal Australian Red Cross Volunteer Medal for Oustanding Voluntary Service 20-Nov-2001

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
AUSTRALIA'S POST-WORLD WARII CRIMES TRIALS OF JAPANESE DEFENDANTS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 09/10/2002
International Operations and the Australian Federal Police: Devising a legal framework Chief Investigator AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 04/05/2007
Australia's Post World War II War Crimes Trials: A systemic and comprehensive Law Reports Series Chief Investigator AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE,
AUST WAR MEMORIAL,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

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 2009

Book Chapters

  • Aerial bombardment of civilians: The current international legal framework
    Year: 2009
    Book: Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History
    Publisher: The New Press(New York)
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • The legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising influence or institutionalised vengeance?
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Book Chapters

  • Cluster munitions, proportionality and the foreseeability of civilian damage
    Year: 2008
    Book: Law at War: The Law as it Was and the Law as it Should Be
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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  • Contributions of the Nuremberg Trial to the subsequent development of international law
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising Influence or Institutionalised Vengeance?
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Journal Articles

  • Learning the lessons of the Milosevic trial
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 65-85
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Sir Ninian Stephen: A Tribute
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Miegunyah Press (Melbourne UP)(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • International peace envoy
    Year: 2007
    Book: Sir Ninian Stephen: A Tribute
    Publisher: Miegunyah Press (Melbourne UP)(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • David Hicks and the charade of Guantánamo Bay
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Melbourne Journal of International Law
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 273-291
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • An Australian perspective on the ICRC customary international humanitarian law study
    Year: 2006
    Book: The Law of War in the 21st Century: Weaponry and the Use of Force
    Publisher: Naval War College(Newport, Rhode Island)
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  • Self-Defence in International Criminal Law
    Year: 2006
    Book: The dynamics of International Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Sir Richar May
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Journal Articles

  • Australia in Correspondents reports
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 453-461
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  • National Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Conflict and Security Law
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 93-118
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Reports

  • International humanitarian law and explosive remnants of war: Report on states parties' responses to the questionnaire
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • The ICC Statute and Commonwealth States: Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: The prosecution of international crimes: A practical guide to prosecuting ICC crimes in Commonwealth States
    Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat(London)
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  • The use of force
    Year: 2005
    Book: Public international law: An Australian perspective
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Australia in Correspondents reports
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 431-440
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  • Sixty years from Nuremberg: What progress for international criminial justice?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 1-18
    Publisher: Armed Forces Law Associaton of NZ(Christchurch)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • General obligations under the biological weapons convention: Key provisions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Biological Weapons Convention Regional Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Biological Weapons Convention Regional Workshop
    Page numbers: 26-32
    Publisher: Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Crimes against humanity
    Year: 2004
    Book: The permanent international criminal court: Legal and policy issues
    Publisher: Hart Publishing(Oxford)
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  • The importance of effective multilateral enforcement of international humanitarian law
    Year: 2004
    Book: Making the voice of humanity heard: Essays on humanitarian assistance and international humanitarian law in honour of HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
    Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers(Leiden)
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Journal Articles

  • Australia in Correspondents reports
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 440-447
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Australia's legislation for implementation of the Rome Statute
    Year: 2003
    Book: National legislation incorporating international crimes
    Publisher: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag GmbH(Berlin)
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  • International and regional action with regard to conflicts in multicultural societies
    Year: 2003
    Book: Federalism in a changing world - Learning from each other
    Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press(Montreal)
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  • Reply to Louise Arbour
    Year: 2003
    Book: The Rule of Law
    Publisher: Federation Press(Sydney)
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  • Their atrocities and our misdemeanours: The reticence of states to try their 'own nationals' for international crimes
    Year: 2003
    Book: Justice for crimes against humanity
    Publisher: Hart Publishing(Portland)
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Journal Articles

  • The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A commentary by Antonio Cassese, Paolo Gaeta and John R W Jones (eds)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Melbourne Journal of International Law
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 341-
    Publisher: University of Melbourne Law Faculty(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Australia in Correspondents reports
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 414-419
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  • Book review: How does law protect in War?: Cases, documents and teaching materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Netherlands International Law Review
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 291-294
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Major Reference Works

  • :'War Crimes' in World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: CQ Press(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • A Century of War and Peace: Asia Pacific Perspectives on the Centenary of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Kluwer Law International(The Hague)
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Journal Articles

  • Legal Aspects of Australia's Involvement in the International Force in East Timor.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Review of the Red Cross
    Volume: 83
    Issue: 841
    Page numbers: 101-139
    Publisher: International Committee for the Red Cross(Geneva)
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