Macquarie Law School
PhD Candidates
Gregory Pemberton
Biography
I graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1976, with first-class honours, BA in History and Government. I completed a second BA. at the University of Sydney in 1982 adding Philosophy and Economics. After I left the army I was awarded a PhD at the University of Sydney in international relations. I started but did not finish a LLB at the Australian National University where I was awarded the prize for International Law. I worked on the Official History of the Southeast Asian Conflicts during which time I had top-secret access to all relevant government records.
Thesis Title
At this stage the thesis title is' The First International Counter Terrorist Law'
Thesis overview
My thesis is about the development of the first international law against terrorism and for the creation of an international criminal court to try accused terrorists. Apart from using the internal records of the Legal Secretariat of the League of Nations in Geneva I have gathered the internal records of nearly 60 countries on the conference. The thesis is about the development of law, municipal and international, especially the problems involved.
Supervisors
Pricipal Supervisor: Prof. Rafiqul Islam (Department of Law)
Associate Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Klein (Department of Law)
Recent Publications
The man who saw the future: Vespasian V. Pella--Aggression, terrorism and the Creation of International criminal Court', Romanian Journal of International Law, No. 6, June 2008, pp. 203-222.
Presentations at conferences
Presentation of the above paper at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, October 2007