Catherine Renshaw lectures, researches and publishes about human rights and democracy in the Asia Pacific region.  With Professor Ben Saul, she is editor of ‘Human Rights in Asia and the Pacific’, Routledge, 2014. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and an editor of the Journal of South Asian Law. Between 2008 and 2010, Catherine was Director of an Australian Research Council project based at the Australian Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales.  She now teaches Public Law, Criminal Law and Procedure and International Human Rights Law at the Thomas More Academy of Law at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. Catherine completed her law degree at the University of New South Wales, her Master of Laws at the University of Sydney and her PhD at the University of Sydney. In 2011 and 2013 she carried out fieldwork in Myanmar as part of her doctoral research.  She is admitted to practice as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.
 
THEUNIS ROUX is Professor of Law and Associate Dean (Research) at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.  Before relocating to Australia in January 2009, he was (for four years) the founding director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), an independent research centre based on Constitution Hill, Johannesburg.  His main research interest is in comparative constitutional law, focusing on the politics of judicial review in new democracies.  His book on the first South African Constitutional Court (The Politics of Principle) was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2013.  He is a former Secretary-General of the International Association of Constitutional Law, and was previously co-editor of the leading commentary on South African constitutional law, Stuart Woolman et al Constitutional Law of South Africa.  In addition to his academic work, Theunis has acted as a consultant to the South African government and UN Habitat in the areas of land restitution, land tenure reform and regulation impact analysis.