Professor Jacqueline Peel and Professor Shiri Krebs have been appointed as DFAT's Visiting Legal Fellows for 2024-2025.
The Visiting Legal Fellow Program encourages greater dialogue between the department and academia, including emerging international legal issues.
The Department looks forward to engaging with Professor Peel and Professor Krebs over the next two years.
Professor Jacqueline Peel
Professor Peel is a Professor of Law and Director of Melbourne Climate Futures at Melbourne University, researching and working on climate change and environmental law. She has held visiting scholar positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, and recently directed the Centre for Studies and Research Program on Climate Change and International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law.
Professor Peel has contributed to multiple important questions of environmental law and policy for organisations including UNEP, the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme, and ClientEarth, on issues including strategic litigation and the role of science in implementation of international environmental law.
Professor Shiri Krebs
Professor Krebs is a Professor of Law at Deakin University. She is also the co-lead of the Law and Policy Theme at the Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and an affiliated scholar at Stanford University Center for International Security and cooperation, and Chair of the international Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict.
Professor Krebs adopts a behavioural approach to international law focusing on the intersection of law, science, and technology. She is currently researching the effects of predictive and visual technologies on decision making in a military context. Professor Krebs is also an expert on legal fact-finding and evidence in international law.
