Fanny Thornton
Professor
Law& Justice
University of Canberra
Australia
Biography
My research interests are varied and include public international law, international human rights law, international refugee law, international environmental law, state responsibility, forced migration, climate change and human displacement. I focus in particular on international legal frameworks relevant to human displacement in the climate change context. I am influenced by justice theory and rights theory in developing non-protection based legal approaches to responding to displacement in that context. I furthermore have research interests in the area of litigation and compensation in response to the damaging impacts of climate change, particularly as this evolves in the cross-border sense.
Research Interest
Areas of Research Interest Refugee Law Human Rights Law International Law Climate Change Law & Regulation Migration Research Theories / Models of Interest Legal Theory Critical Legal Theory Justice Theory Jurisprudence New Approaches to International Law Research Methods of Interest Legal Research Methods Law Reform Methods Interdisciplinary Methods Socio-Legal Methods
Publications
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Fanny Thornton, 'Compensatory Justice for Climate Change Displacement under International Law – Fault-Based and No-Fault Approaches' (2013) 6 Irish Yearbook of International Law 25;
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Hedda Ransen-Cooper, Carol Farbotko, Karen McNamara and Fanny Thornton, 'Being(s) Framed: The Means and Ends of Framing Environmental Migrants' (Forthcoming 2015) Global Environmental Change;
