Biography
Tamsin Phillipa Paige is a Senior Lecturer with Deakin Law School and periodically consults for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in relation to Maritime Crime. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, using qualitative sociological methods to analyse international law. She also does law and literature research using popular fiction to understand social perceptions of the law. Her work has examined (among other things) Somali piracy, UN Security Council decision making, and conflict based sexual violence. In a former life, she was a French trained, fine dining pâtissier.
Read more on Tamsin's profileResearch interests
My overarching research interest is the application and impact of the law in society, using Qualitiative Research Methods. To date this work has taken a focus on International Security Law and Transnational Organised Crime (in particular Maritime Crime). I also have an interest in the way in which pop culture representations of law shape and reflect how society views and understands concepts of law and justice and their place in society.
Teaching interests
International Law (with a focus on IHL and Security)
Sociolegal Theory
Ethics
Qualitative Methods
Law and Literature
Queer Theory
Units taught
MLL235 Legal Practice and Ethics
MLJ720 Legal Practice, Ethics, and Policy
Knowledge areas
International Law (with a focus on Armed Conflict and Security), Transnational Organised Crime, Sociology of Law, Qualitative Research Methods, Law and Society, Queer Theory
Awards
Endeavour Scholar (2015 Selection Round)
Publications
Pirates of the Cyber Seas: Are State-Sponsored Hackers Modern-Day Privateers?
Josephine Dwan, Tamsin Paige, Rob McLaughlin
(2022), Vol. 4, pp. 49-62, Law, Technology and Humans, Brisbane, Qld., C1
The Bear and the Dragon Pragmatism and State-centric International Law in the un Security Council
T Paige
(2021), Vol. 90, pp. 446-470, Nordic Journal of International Law, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1
Wilfully Blind: the Security Council's Response to Genocide in Rwanda
Tamsin Paige
(2020), Vol. 22, pp. 136-147, Journal of International Peacekeeping, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1
T Paige
(2020), Vol. 33, pp. 119-140, Law and literature, Abingdon, Eng., C1
T Paige, J Stagg
(2020), Vol. 29, pp. 468-492, Griffith Law Review, C1
Tamsin Paige
(2019), Leiden, The Netherlands, A1
The maintenance of international peace and security heteronormativity
T Paige
(2017), pp. 91-109, Queering international law : possibilities, alliances, complicities, risks, London, Eng., B1-1
The impact and effectiveness of UNCLOS on counter-piracy operations
T Paige
(2017), Vol. 22, pp. 97-123, Journal of conflict and security law, Oxford, Eng., C1-1
Rob McLaughlin, Tamsin Paige
(2016), Vol. 12, pp. 82-119, Journal of international law and international relations, Toronto, Ont., C1-1
How building prisons in Somalia promoted the rule of law throughout East Africa
T Paige
(2016), pp. 1-9, Global Rule of Law Exchange Practice Notes, London, Eng., A6-1
Piracy and universal jurisdiction
T Paige
(2013), Vol. 12, pp. 131-154, Macquarie law journal, [Sydney, N.S.W.], C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
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Supervisions
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