Dr Imogen Saunders
Research interests
General International Law
International Trade Law
The Law of the Sea
International Space Law
Technology and International Law
Biography
Dr Imogen Saunders completed her undergraduate degrees in law and science at the University of Western Australia, and was awarded her PhD from the Australian National University in 2013.
Imogen teaches and researches in public international law. Her publications include works on general principles of law as a source of international law, as well as the status of artificial islands in international law. She has convened the International Trade Law LLB/JD elective at the ANU College of Law since 2012. Imogen also teaches in the LLM program, and has taught the International Law of World Trade and the Public International Law units.
Imogen is currently the Director of Mooting and Student Competitions at the ANU College of Law. She has been the Faculty Advisor for the ANU Phillip C Jessup Moot Competition team several times, and has judged in the Australian rounds of the Jessup competition. She has also coached student teams in other international competitions including the IASLA Space Law Moot Competition and the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot.
Researcher's projects
Imogen is currently working on projects on territory and artificial islands in international law and research on diversity of national systems as represented in the International Court of Justie.
Publications
- Saunders, I 2019, 'Artificial Islands and Territory in International Law', Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 643-684.
- Saunders, I 2019, 'The limits of the natural state doctrine: rocks, islands and artificial intervention in a changing world', in Donald Rothwell & David Letts (ed.), Law of the Sea in South East Asia: Environmental, Navigational and Security Challenges, Routledge, London.
- Saunders, I & Rothwell, D 2017, 'FORUM - Is TTP 2.0 good to go?'.
- Saunders, I 2016, 'The South China Sea Award, Artificial Islands and Territory', Australian Year Book of International Law, vol. 34, pp. 31-39.
- Saunders, I 2015, 'General principles of law and a source-based approach to the regulation of international security institutions', in H Nasu, K Rubenstein (ed.), Legal Perspectives on Security Institutions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 123-140.
- Saunders, I 2014, 'International disaster relief law and article 38(1)(c) of the statute of the international court of justice: the forgotten source of international law', in David D. Caron, Michael J. Kelly, Anastasia Telesetsky (ed.), The International Law of Disaster Relief, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, p. 424.
