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Dr Emma Nyhan Dr Emma Nyhan is an interdisciplinary scholar of law and society, whose work bridges international law, legal and social anthropology, and post-colonial studies. Before joining RegNet in September 2021, Emma was a research fellow on the Australian Research Council-funded project ‘The Potential and Limits of International Adjudication: Australia and the International Court of Justice’, led by Professor Hilary Charlesworth (now judge of the International Court of Justice) and Professor Margaret Young at Melbourne Law School. Her research spans two substantive fields. The first concerns the practice of global human rights law, focussing on how global human rights law regulates the identity of the Bedouin in Israel. Her second field concerns the operations of international dispute settlement, focusing on how states engage with international courts and tribunals. Emma’s research has been published in leading journals of law and society, international law,
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global human rights law and transnational law. In December 2021, Emma’s article ‘Translating Global Indigeneity into the Bedouin Vernacular’ was published in Transnational Legal Theory. In the same month, her article ‘A Latent Encounter with the International Court of Justice: How Australia and Japan Settled a Pearl Fisheries Dispute’ was published in Melbourne Journal of International Law. Since arriving at RegNet, Emma has been working on her book, Desert-Dwellers of International Law: How the Bedouin in Israel Became Indigenous in International Law, in progress to be published in Cambridge University Press. This socio-legal study reconstructs how the global category of indigeneity came to be applied to the Bedouin in Israel.
