Rate My Professor Alison Duxbury

Professor Alison Duxbury is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. A Melbourne Law School alumna, she earned her BA/LLB (Hons) in 1993 and PhD in 2008 from the University of Melbourne and an LLM from the University of Cambridge as a Pegasus Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar. She was part of the University of Melbourne team that won the world championship in the Jessup International Moot Court Competition in 1993. Before joining Melbourne Law School, she practiced law at Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and the London office of Clifford Chance, and held an academic position at Monash University. Within Melbourne Law School, she has served as Deputy Dean and Interim Dean, demonstrating her leadership in legal education. She previously chaired the International Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and was Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law. Alison has been a Visiting Fellow at prestigious institutions, including All Souls College and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford (2023-2024), the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge, the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. She has also taught at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London and Auckland Law School.