Joo-Cheong Tham is a Senior Lecturer at the Law Faculty and has taught at the law schools of Victoria University and La Trobe University.
His key research areas are the regulation of non-standard work, anti-terrorism laws and political finance law. He has published over 25 book chapters and refereed articles. His research has also been published in print and online media with Joo-Cheong having written more than 30 opinion pieces. He has also given evidence to parliamentary inquiries into terrorism laws and political finance law.
He is currently working on three separate areas. The first focuses on the role of political parties in the protection of rights and will result in a chapter in a book edited by Tom Campbell, Keith Ewing and Adam Tomkins and the second deals with the legal protection of temporary migrant work. In the area of political finance, Joo-Cheong is writing a book on Australian political finance law that will be published by UNSW Press in 2010. He is also currently editing two books, both of which will be published in 2010: one to be published by Routledge is devoted to international perspectives on political finance while the other, which has the working title, 'Electoral Regulation and Prospects for Australian Democracy', will be published by Melbourne University Press. Joo-Cheong graduated with a LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne in 1998 and completed an LLM in 2003 with the same university. He was granted a doctorate of laws by the University of Melbourne on the basis of his thesis that examined the legal precariousness of casual employment. In 2007-2008, he was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Law School, King's College, University of London. He was also the Rydon Fellow for Australian Politics and History at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, University of London in 2008.
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