Associate Professor Sam Garkawe BSc(Melb) LLB(Monash) LLM(Lond) Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Attorney-at-Law (California) Sam is an Associate Professor at the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, NSW. Sam completed his Law Degree at Monash University, Melbourne, and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He has been employed in a number of legal environments, including private practice, legal aid, as a research solicitor for the Victorian parliament, and has been an academic since 1991. He further holds a Masters of Law from London University, and is also admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in California. His research interests are in the fields of international and national criminal justice, victimology, human rights, terrorism and the law, restorative justice and international law. He presently teaches human rights, victimology, criminal law & procedure, international law and international criminal justice at Southern Cross University. Sam has also taught post-graduate courses at the Criminology Department of Melbourne University and at the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Institute Of Human Rights And Criminal Justice Studies, at Technikon SA, Florida, Johannesburg, South Africa (2001), and a Visiting Professor at Hamline University School Of Law, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (2001), Whittier School of Law, California, USA (2004) and City University of Hong Kong (2006). Research interests: Victims of Crime and Victimology, International and national Criminal Justice, International and national Human Rights (particularly Criminal Justice, terrorism and reparation issues), International Law, Restorative Justice.
Journal articles
Review essay: Colin Tatz, 'With intent to destroy: reflecting on genocide', Current Issues in Criminal Justice (2005)
Professor Colin Tatz has been one ofthe most prominent scholars in the field of the...
Revisiting the scope of victimology - how broad a discipline should it be?, International Review of Victimology (2004)
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a suitable model to enhance the role and rights of the victims of gross violations of human rights?, Melbourne University Law Review (2003)
Victims and the International Criminal Court: three major issues, International Criminal Law Review (2003)
Books
Indigenous human rights (with Loretta Kelly and Warwick Fisher), School of Law and Justice Papers (2001)
Indigenous Human Rights is an edited selection of proceedings of the Australian Indigenous Human Rights...