Ms Rebecca LaForgia

Rebecca LaForgia is a senior lecturer in law in the Law School at University of South Australia. Rebecca brings academic experience in the area of international law, international trade law and constitutional law. She has recently delivered papers at several international conferences on the role international trade law plays in cultural exchange and within transnational crime.

Rebecca has a first class honours degree from Adelaide University and a first class masters degree from Cambridge University. She is currently undertaking a PhD in the area of international trade law.

• Her main research interest is in the export of normative ideas, such as democracy and transparency, through United States bilateral free trade agreements. This research forms the basis of her PhD which she is currently undertaking.
• Rebecca also has research interests in constitutional law and was invited to appear before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee on the issue of migration. This submission become the basis for two articles (one co-authored).

LaForgia R (with Marinella Marmo), ‘Inclusive National Governance and Trafficked Women in Australia: Otherness and Local Demand’ (2008) Asian Journal of Criminology 173-191.

LaForgia R, ‘The Administration of Transparency Under the Labour Chapter of United States Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: Is the United States Creating a Glass House?’ (2008) 1 Global Studies Journal 47.

Rebecca LaForgia “Sowing seeds for transparency (You reap what you sow: Lessons from the Australian Wheat Board on the need for business to advocate for transparent Free Trade Agreements)” (2006) 2 Monash Business Review 25.

Bryan Mercurio and Rebecca LaForgia “Expanding Democracy: Why Australia Should Negotiate for Open and Transparent Dispute Settlement in its Free Trade Agreements” (2005) 6 Melbourne Journal of International Law 485 (international journal 16,000 words).

Rebecca LaForgia “Subverting the Rule of Law” (2006) 10 Southern Cross University Law Review 201

Rebecca LaForgia and Martin Flynn ‘ Australia’s Pacific Solution to Asylum Seekers’ (2002) LAWASIA Journal 31. (refereed journal)

Rebecca LaForgia “ Attorney General , Chief Law Officer of the Crown : But where is the law ?” ( 2003 ) 28 Alt Law Journal 163 (refereed journal)

Robert McCorquodale and Rebecca LaForgia ‘ Taking off the Blindfolds, Torture and the Responsibility of Non- State Actors’ (2001) 1 The Human Rights Review 189. (article 12,000 words, international journal)

Cummings, Blockland and LaForgia, ‘Lessons from the Stolen Generation Litigation’ (1997) 19 Adelaide Law Review 25.

Rebecca LaForgia, ‘Truth but still waiting for justice, the Stolen Children’ (1997) 22 Alternative Law Journal 192.

Rebecca LaForgia, ‘ When money doesn’t matter ’ (1998) 23 Alternative Law Journal 164. (This article concerned the international human rights implications of mining at Jabiluka.)

Rebecca LaForgia, ‘The Bush Talks’ (1999) 22 Alternative Law Journal 24.

Rebecca LaForgia, ‘ Banning Anti-Personnel Mines Lessons to be Learnt from the Ottawa Convention’ (1999) 39 International Law News 9.

Rebecca LaForgia “Australia’s policy in relation to dispute mechanisms in bilateral trade treaties” Department of Foreign Affairs Inquiry into Australia and ASEAN Trade Negotiations 2005.

Submission accepted and oral evidence and written submission cited in the Report into the Inquiry into the Migration Legislation Amendment (Further Border Protection Measures) Bill 2002 October 2002.

Invited to appear before the Australian Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry August 2002

Rebecca LaForgia and Martin Flynn “Joint Submission Australian Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Migration Legislation Amendment (Further Border Protection Measures) Bill” 2002

Rebecca LaForgia, ‘International Human Rights in Context by Steiner H and Alston P’ (1996) 3 Australian Journal of Human Rights 174.(book review)

Rebecca LaForgia ‘Take it Personally’ (2002) 27 Alternative Law Journal 149.

Rebecca LaForgia “ Child Asylum Seekers Living in Limbo” ( 2003) 28 Alternative Law Journal 100