Dr Jaz Dawson

Graduated in 2019

Project Description

Since the late 1980s, many norms relating to the recognition of sexual orientation-based rights have come to be accepted and institutionalised at the international level. One of these, based on developments in multiple jurisdictions since the late 1980s, has been the institutionalisation of the norm of sexual orientation-based claims to asylum. This has been accompanied by an ever-growing series of procedural norms relating to assessing sexual orientation-based claims in the refugee status determination process. At the same time, constructivist international relations scholars have been developing theory on norm institutionalisation and implementation. Scholars such as Amitav Acharya have explored how norms can be adapted when they reach the regional level, developing the notion of ‘norm localisation’. More recently, constructivist scholars Alexander Betts and Phil Orchard have argued that the institutionalisation of international norms ‘ultimately only [has] significance insofar as they translate into practice’.  They have, therefore, brought their analysis on norm institutionalisation and implementation processes down to the domestic level.

Supervisors

Professor Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School 
Professor Sarah Maddison, School of Social and Political Sciences