Professor John Tobin

Francine V McNiff Chair in International Human Rights Law, Melbourne Law School
Australia

Professor John Tobin holds the Francine V McNiff Chair in International Human Rights Law at Melbourne Law School where he is the Director of the Human Rights Program and teaches numerous courses on human rights and children’s rights. He is a member of the Victorian Children’s Council, the Chief Examiner for the Law Institute of Victoria’s Child Law Specialisation Scheme and a member of the Independent Panel of Experts which will review Taiwan’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in November 2022. He is also the editor of the award-winning book, ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary’ which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

October 2022

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