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Haemala Thanasegaran

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Haemala Thanasegaran

Dr

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8065-778X

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20012025

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Biography

Haemala Thanasegaran is a comparative law and socio-legal academic with the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash Australia. She holds an LL.B (Hons) London, LL.M (Malaya), Ph.D (Monash), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (Monash), Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Supervision accreditation (Monash) and is called to the Malaysian Bar.

Haemala has extensive experience teaching contract law, business and commercial law and international trade law with both the Law and Business and Economics Faculties with numerous Pro-Vice Chancellor's awards and Dean's commendations for teaching excellence. She is currently the chief investigator for a grant involving a study into the impact of Ethics education in business and commercial law. 

Her research monograph published by Springer is on comparative insurance and takaful law reform and journal publications and research interests are primarily on contracts, insurance and takaful, legal culture, comparative law reform and ethics, with the most recent book chapter published by Springer on the role of insurance in addressing modern slavery.

Haemala is currently involved in a major contract law project being undertaken by the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies' (Malaysia hub) via her involvement as a member of the Working Group on Bailments for the Review and Reform of Contract Law in Malaysia under the authority of the Malaysian Prime Minister's Department's Legal Affairs Division.

She also has non-academic commercial publications (family/self-help genre) with Hayhouse and MPH Publishing on motherhood (with maternal and emotional wellbeing at heart) and is a motivational speaker working with refugee women in Melbourne.

Haemala is interested in supervising HDR students in areas relating to contracts, consumer protection, insurance/takaful, ethics (in education, business) and comparative/socio-legal law reform.

External positions

Faculty of Law - Sessional Academic, Monash University

1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2024

Senior Lecturer, Monash University Malaysia

1 Jan 2010 → 20 Jan 2015

Lecturer, Monash University Malaysia

1 Jan 2001 → 31 Dec 2009

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  6. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  8. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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