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Assoc Prof Tina Dolgopol

Phone: +61 8 82013880
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Location: Law Commerce (229)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Associate Professor Tina Dolgopol has published in the fields of human rights, children's rights and women in armed conflict. From 1997 to 2000 Ms Dolgopol participated in the work of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice to improve the gender provisions in the Statute establishing the International Criminal Court as well as the Rules of Procedure and the Elements of Crime Annexes to the Statute.  During December 2000 she was one of the Chief Prosecutors for the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal held in Tokyo.  She is on the Advisory Council of the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, an organisation that seeks to ensure that the workings of the International Criminal Court encompass the rights and concerns of women.  Ms Dolgopol is a co-author of the Law Society of South Australia's submission to the Human Rights Consultation.

Qualifications

Juris Doctor, May 1977, Cum Laude, State University of New York at Buffalo; Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, June 1973, Major: History, State University of New York at Buffalo

Honours, awards and grants

1998 Flinders University of South Australia Equal Opportunity Award

Key responsibilities

Administrating Human Rights Internship Programme

Teaching

Teaching interests

International Human Rights Law, Women's Rights and International Law, Women's Rights and International Criminal Justice, Torts

Topic Coordinator:

  • LLAW 2211 Torts 2
  • LLAW 3251 International Protection of Human Rights
  • LLAW 3266 Women's Rights and the International Protection of Human Rights
  • LLAW 9502 International Human Rights

Topic Lecturer:

  • LLAW 1223 Torts 1
  • LLAW 9500A Relationship between International Law and International Relations
  • LLAW 9500B Contemporary Issues in International Law

Research and consultancy

Research interests

Women's rights in the context of Armed Conflict and Peace Building, women's rights and international criminal justice, the domestic application of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, and equality and the rule of law.

Postgraduate research supervision

The operation of the UN system for the protection of Human Rights, women's rights, children's rights, peacebuilding and conflict resolution.

Publications

Book chapters

Dolgopol, U., 2011. Knowledge and Responsibility: The Ongoing Consequences of Failing to Give Sufficient Attention to the Crimes against the Comfort Women in the Tokyo Trial. In Beyond Victor's Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited. Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 243-262.

Dolgopol, U., 2006. Redressing partial justice - a possible role for civil society. In The Challenge of Conflict: International Law Responds. Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 475-497.

Dolgopol, U. & Mcgregor, S., 2001. A human rights framework for children, young people and their families. In Children on the Agenda. St. Leonards, NSW: Prospect, pp. 41-64.

Refereed journal articles

Dolgopol, U., 2006. Women and peace building: what we can learn from the Arusha Peace Agreement. Australian Feminist Studies, 21(50), 257-273.

Dolgopol, U., 2003. The judgement of the Tokyo Women's Tribunal. Alternative Law Journal, 28(5), 242-249.

Journal articles

Dolgopol, U., 2003. Human rights of women - international instruments and African experiences by W Benedek et al (Book Review). Australian Feminist Studies, 18(40), 114-115.

Other public research outputs

Dolgopol, U., 2008. Truth commissions and procedural fairness (Book Review). Australian Yearbook of International law, 27, 265-268.

Dolgopol, U., 2001. Civil Society's Response to Injustice - The Tokyo Womens Tribunal.

Professional and community engagement

Member, Human Rights Committee, Law Society of South Australia
Member, Children and the Law Committee, Law Society of South Australia

Expertise for media contact

  • War Crimes comfort women
  • Women and Armed Conflict
  • Human Rights international
  • International Criminal Court
  • Children's Rights
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Child Protection

Subject/s

  • Child Abuse
  • Children/Youth
  • Human Rights
  • Justice
  • Law
  • War
  • Women


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