Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Ronli Sifris is a Senior Lecturer in Monash University’s Faculty of Law, a Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, and Co-Convener of the Law, Health and Wellbeing Group. She completed a LLM as a Hauser Scholar at NYU School of Law and a PhD at Monash University. Her research focus is on the intersection of reproductive health / rights and the law at both the international and domestic level. As such, she has published extensively on issues such as abortion, involuntary sterilisation and surrogacy.
Her book, Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture (Routledge, 2014) was launched by the then Hon Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Marilyn Warren AC and has been the subject of favourable book reviews. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, Ronli has Co-Edited two special issues of high quality journals; an issue of the Griffith Law Review focusing on “Gender, Health and the Law” and an issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine focusing on “Commercial Surrogacy – What Role of Law”.
Further, in an effort to influence real legal change she has made submissions to a number of different Parliamentary Inquiries / Law Reform Commission Inquiries and has been cited / extensively quoted in the resulting reports. Most recently, she achieved significant research impact when the High Court of Australia accepted her application to appear as “amicus curiae” to assist in its deliberations on a recent constitutional challenge.
You can find her on Twitter @RonliSifris and some of her papers on SSRN at http://ssrn.com/author=1444937.
Areas of Expertise
Reproductive Rights
Transitional Justice
Health Law
International Law
Human Rights
Research area keywords
- human rights
- reproductive rights
- gender
- transitional justice
- international law
Network
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Research Output
Intersectionality, transitional justice, and the case of internally displaced Moro women in the Philippines
Sifris, R. & Tanyag, M., May 2019, In : Human Rights Quarterly. 41, 2, p. 399-420 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Parentage, surrogacy and the perplexing state of Australian law: a missed opportunity
Sifris, R. & Sifris, A., 2019, In : Journal of Law and Medicine. 27, 2, p. 369-386 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Anti-abortion protest and the effectiveness of Victoria's safe access zones: an analysis
Sifris, R. & Penovic, T., 2018, In : Monash University Law Review. 44, 2, p. 317-340 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Book Review of The Public Law of Gender: From the Local to the Global
Sifris, R., 2018, In : The Denning Law Journal. 30, 2, p. 197-206 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other › peer-review
Open Access
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Expanding the feminisation dimension of international law: targeted anti-abortion protest as violence against women
Penovic, T. & Sifris, R., 2018, In : Cambridge International Law Journal. 7, 2, p. 241-267 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
2012 Faculty Commendation Certificate in recognition of contribution to “Transitional Justice” which achieved a SETU survey score of 4.92 for “Overall Satisfaction” out of a possible 5
Ronli Sifris (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
2013 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher
Ronli Sifris (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
2014 Faculty Certificate of Recognition for one of the top 5 units (out of over 100) to demonstrate significant improvement in student satisfaction for “LAW3200 – Constitutional Law”
Ronli Sifris (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
2014 Faculty Certificate of Recognition for SETU Survey results for “Principles of Constitutional Law” in the top 20 units offered by the Law Faculty in 2014.
Ronli Sifris (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
2014 Letter of Congratulations from Prof Darrell Evans, Vice-Provost Learning and Teaching, for unit evaluations ranked in the top 7.2% of the university for “Principles of Constitutional Law”.
Ronli Sifris (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
Submission to the Abortion Legislation Committee (NZ) regarding the Abortion Legislation Bill
Tania Penovic (Contributor), Ronli Sifris (Contributor), Caroline Henckels (Contributor)13 Sep 2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Submission the South Australian Law Reform Institute, Abortion: A Review of South Australian Law and Practice on behalf od Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Ronli Sifris (Contributor), Tania Penovic (Contributor)16 May 2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Submission to Government of Western Australia, Safe Access Zones: Proposal for Reform in WA on behalf of Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Tania Penovic (Contributor), Ronli Sifris (Contributor)16 May 2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
Oral testimony elaborating on our submission to the committee (authored with Dr Caroline Henckels)
Tania Penovic (Speaker), Ronli Sifris (Speaker)29 Oct 2019
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries
The Possibilities and Limits of Protest
Tania Penovic (Invited speaker), Ronli Sifris (Invited speaker)20 Aug 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press / Media
‘High Court delivers landmark ruling validating abortion clinic ‘safe access zones’ The Conversation, 12 April 2019
Caroline Henckels, Ronli Sifris & Tania Penovic
12/04/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
As the High Court challenge to abortion clinic ‘safe access zones’ begins, there is much at stake’ The Conversation, 9 October 2018
Tania Penovic, Caroline Henckels & Ronli Sifris
9/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
High Court case: do anti-abortion protest laws limit free speech?
Tania Penovic, Ronli Sifris & Caroline Henckels
8/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Blogs
High Court challenge
Tania Penovic, Ronli Sifris & Caroline Henckels
31/05/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
Court convicts woman for anti-abortion protest
16/10/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Blogs