Professor Sarah Louise Joseph is an Australian human rights scholar. Joseph is currently the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, a position she has held since 2005.^[1] Joseph is internationally recognized for her work on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

She is an internationally renowned legal academic and commentator, specialising in the areas of human rights and constitutional law.^[2] She has published a number of books including Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Hart 2004), co-authoring The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (OUP, 2nd ed, 2004), Federal Constitutional Law:a contemporary view (Thompson, 2nd ed, 2006), and A Handbook on the Individual Complaints Procedures of the UN (OMCT, 2006).^[3]

She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from Sydney University, a Master of Laws from Cambridge University and a PhD from Monash University.^[1] In 2008, she was selected to participate in the Australia 2020 Summit.

Joseph was inducted into Monash University Golden Key Society as an Honorary Member in 2009

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