Adjunct Lecturer – University of Sydney, NSW

Dr Alison Pert lectures in International Law and the Use of Armed Force at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral thesis on Australia’s record as a good international citizen was published by Federation Press in 2014. After her Bar exams in London Alison spent five years in Papua New Guinea working in the Eastern Highlands Provincial Government. She returned to the UK to undertake a Master’s Degree at University College, London, specialising in international law. On moving to Canberra she worked in the Attorney-General’s Department, working in constitutional, international, and international trade law areas. She then spent several years in private practice, mainly in commercial litigation, maintaining her interest in international law and lecturing in international trade law at ANU. In Sydney she worked in corporate and commercial law at the Commonwealth Bank. She has lectured at the University of Sydney in international law since 2003 and has also lectured in International Law and the Use of Armed Force at Monash University.