We are postgraduate students at the Melbourne Law School of the University of Melbourne, in Australia. We are members of the Postgraduate Law Students’ Association (PLSA) and are affiliated with the Institute of International Law and the Humanities.

Olivia Barr graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Laws (Dist.) and a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) before graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Laws. Olivia has worked in law reform, as a government solicitor and for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Her doctoral thesis contemplates issues surrounding Aboriginal sovereignty from various critical perspectives, including critical legal geography and (post)colonialism.

Luis Eslava completed his undergraduate law degree at Universidad Externado de Colombia and a Master of Law and Development at the Melbourne Law School. Luis is interested in issues of Global Governance, from the perspective of critical Third World subjects. In the last few years, Luis has published various articles in Colombian and international journals, including ‘Occupation Law: (Mis)Use and Consequences in Iraq’ in Contexto and a review of ‘Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development’ for Feminist Legal Studies. Luis completed his Master Thesis on the de-nationalization of the development project in Colombia in 2007 under the supervision of Dr Jennifer Beard, and this project is currently being expanded into a doctoral research project.

Yoriko Otomo has worked in several government and non-government environmental organisations, and has contributed to publications relating to sustainable development, environmental law and humanitarian issues. Her doctoral thesis seeks to develop asemiology of law through a poststructural feminist analysis of key texts within the law of occupation and international economic law.