Name:		DEBORAH CASS
	Lionel Murphy Postgraduate Scholar
		Year: 1992	Overseas scholarship
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Biographical Notes:	Deborah Z Cass teaches constitutional law and international trade law at the Australian National University. Deborah holds an LLB (1989) from Melbourne University, an LLM from Harvard University (1995) and is currently a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School. Her thesis examines the constitutionalisation of international trade law. She is also currently involved in a joint project with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade investigating China's accession to the World Trade Organisation. Deborah, a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, was a recipient of the European Community Visitors Program Scholarship (1993) and the Caltex National Woman Graduate of the Year (1993). From September 2000 she will teach international economic law at the London School of Economics.
Publications:	Books Australian Constitutional Law: Materials and Commentary, 6th edition, Butterworths (1999) (with Peter Hanks) (973pgs). Supplement to Hanks, P. Australian Constitutional Law, 5th edition, Butterworths, (1994). Refereed articles "Traversing the Divide: International and Constitutional Law in Australia", 20 Adelaide Law Review,73-82 (1998). "Navigating the Newstream: Recent Critical Legal Scholarship in International Law" 65 Nordic Journal of International Law 341-381 (1996) "Representation/s of Women: Towards a Feminist Analysis of the Australian Constitutional System" 17 Adelaide Law Review 3-48 (1995) (with Kim Rubenstein). "Through the Looking Glass: The High Court of Australia and the Right to Political Speech" 4 Public Law Review 229-247 (1993). "The Word to Save Maastricht? The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Division of Powers in the European Community" 29 Common Market Law Review 1107-1136 (1992). "Rethinking Self-Determination: A Critical Analysis of Current International Law Theories" 18 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 21-40 (1992) "A Quiet Revolution: The Exclusive Economic Zone and Foreign Fishing Access in the Pacific" 16 Melbourne University Law Review 83-102 (1987).  Book Chapters "Rethinking excise - Towards a New Analytical Approach to s90 of the Constitution", in Coper, M and Williams G (eds) Lionel Murphy: Influential or Merely Prescient, Federation Press, 19-43 (1997). "From Federation Forward: The Representation of Women in the Australian Constitutional System" in Helen Irving, A Woman’s Constitution? Hale and Iremonger, Australia, 108-126 (1996) (with Kim Rubenstein). "The Right to Political Speech in Australia" in T. Campbell and W. Sadurski (eds.) Freedom of Communication: Essays in Applied Legal Philosophy Dartmouth Publications U.K. 179-198 (1994)  Published Conference Proceedings "The Constitutionalization of the Law of Self Determination" American Society of International Law – Proceedings of the 92^nd Annual Meeting, Washington, (1998). "Regional Power-Sharing: Lessons for International Law from the European Community" 19 International Law News 4 (1993). "Subsidiarity and the European Community" Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting, Canberra Australia (1993). Book reviews Extradition: Australian Law and Procedure, E.P. Aughterson, 208 European Journal of International Law, 208 (1997). To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia’s Constitution, Helen Irving, 26 Federal Law Review, 409-413 (1998). Modern Law of Self-Determination, C. Tomuschat 8 Harvard Human Rights Journal 293-299 (1995) Casenotes and comments. R. v. Hakopian 16 Criminal Law Journal 200-204 (1992) R. v. Hakopian 1 Feminist Legal Studies 203-208 (1993). Current Developments: Asia 2 Public Law Review 145-147 (1991) Other publications "Constitutional Debate puts the High Court in the dock", The Age (7 November 1997. "Sexual exploitation in trading" 17 Alternative Law Journal (1992). "Playground Imperialists: England, Australia and New Zealand and the Battle for Nauru's Phosphate" Pacific Islands Monthly (Oct. 1988). "An Interview with author Frank Moorhouse" The Age Newspaper (Feb. 1987) (with James Button). "A Measured Breakfast" (fiction) The Australian Literary Supplement (Apr. 1985). SELECTED PAPERS (1996-1999) "The Constitutionalization of the Law of Self Determination" American Society of International Law 92^nd Annual Meeting, Washington USA, April 1998. "Swallowing the Rule: A Response to Tom Campbell’s Legal Ethical Positivism", Judicial Activism Workshop, Canberra, Australia, July 1998. Chair, China and the World Trade Organisation, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, Canberra, Australia, 30 May 1997. "The Last Bastion: Does One Woman on the High Court Equal ‘Gender Balance’", The Women’s Constitutional Convention, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia 29-30 January 1998. Chair, Panel on Development, Feminist Interventions in International Law, University of Melbourne, 30 September 1996. "If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller", New Approaches to International Law, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 1996. "Does Gender Have a Place in Australian Constitutional Law", Labour Lawyers Conference, Canberra, Australia, October 1996. "Rethinking s 90", Justice Lionel Murphy: Influential or Merely Prescient, Canberra, Australia, October 1996. Trade and Development: Effects on Women (chair panel), Feminist Interventions in International Law, University of Melbourne, September 1996. Women into Politics (seminar reporter), Parliament House , September 1996. European Studies (guest lecture), European Studies course, October 1996. "The Role of History as Theory in Constitutional Law Teaching", Constitutional Law Teaching Workshop, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia, February 1996. MEDIA I have been asked to comment in a number of major daily newspapers and national broadcasting programs on a range of legal issues including: Radio National Australian Broadcasting Corporation,– constitutional power over the Australian territories c. May 1998. The Law Report, Australian Broadcasting Corporation,– gender balance on the High Court of Australia, Feb. 3 1998. The Media Report Australian Broadcasting Corporation, - Theophanous and the implied freedom of political communication, March 1997. The Australian Newspaper - Constitutional role of the High Court, March 1997. The Australian Newspaper - Lionel Murphy conference, October 1996. The Australian Newspaper - Crean Targets Sexism in Law, April 6 1994. Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Gender Bias in Legal Education, March 23 1994. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Late Night Live - Is There a Constitutional Right to Free Political Speech? October1993. Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Nauru and Australia at the International Court of Justice, 1991. The Boston Globe; Australian Broadcasting Corporation; The Age Newspaper; Australian Associated Press; TCN Channel 9 - Hakopian and the standard of consent in cases concerning rape of sex workers, March 1991.