Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 3159
f: +61 2 9514 3400
e: Roberto.Buonamano@uts.edu.au
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CM05B.02.10
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› History and Theory of Human Rights
› International Human Rights Law
› International Humanitarian Law
› Legal and Political Philosophies
› European Legal History
Current Teaching
78016 International Humanitarian Law
76007 Human Rights
78151 Human Rights Law
70120 Legal Method and Research
Academic Profile
Roberto Buonamano joined the Faculty of Law in 2004. He previously worked as an immigration solicitor, tenancy advocate, legal researcher and casual lecturer in various law schools.
He completed his doctoral studies in 2006 through the University of New South Wales, Sydney with a dissertation titled A Genealogy of Subjective Rights. A modified version was subsequently published as a monograph.
Current Research Activities
Research towards a monograph on the notion of the state of exception and its relationship to the rule of law.
Research in the history of ideas relating to the doctrine of ragion di stato and its influence on the emergence of the modern state form.
Recent Grants, Publications and Conference Papers
Rights and Subjectivity: A Pre-History of Human Rights. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
'Humanity and Inhumanity: State Power and the Force of Law in the Prescription of Juridical Norms', in ed. John T. Parry, Evil, Law and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence, Amsterdam & New York: Editions Rodopi, 2006.
Conference paper presented at 1st Global Conference Evil, Law and the State, Mansfield College, Oxford UK, 14-17 July 2004.