Professor Jennifer Balint

Professor Jennifer Balint is the Head of School, Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne. She came to the University of Melbourne in 2002 to establish the Socio-Legal Studies program in Criminology. Her research expertise is in the area of state crime, genocide and access to justice, with a focus on the constitutive function of law in societies and transitional justice. She co-established the Minutes of Evidence project, a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, education experts, performance artists, community members, government and community organisations that aims to spark public conversations about structural justice and how understanding the relationship between the colonial past and the present can bring about just futures.

Professor Balint has been a visiting fellow at International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, a research fellow at the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University, Chicago, a visiting scholar at the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University and an invited scholar to the University of Leuven. She has a BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) from Macquarie University, and a PhD from the Law Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Profesor Jennifer Balint adalah Head of School, Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Dia bergabung dengan University of Melbourne pada tahun 2002 untuk mendirikan program Socio-Legal Studies in Criminology. Fokus penelitiannya adalah di bidang kejahatan negara, genosida, dan akses terhadap keadilan, dengan fokus pada fungsi konstitutif hukum dalam masyarakat dan keadilan transisi. Dia ikut mendirikan proyek Minutes of Evidence, sebuah kolaborasi antara peneliti indigenous dan non-indigineous, pakar pendidikan, seniman, anggota masyarakat, pemerintah dan organisasi masyarakat yang bertujuan untuk memicu percakapan publik tentang keadilan struktural dan bagaimana pemahaman terhadap hubungan kolonial masa lalu dan masa kini dapat menghasilkan masa depan yang lebih berkeadilan.

Profesor Balint pernah menjadi peneliti tamu di International State Crime Initiative di Queen Mary University of London, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, research fellow di International Human Rights Law Institute di DePaul University, Chicago, visiting scholar di Center for International and Public Law di Australian National University, dan invited scholar di University of Leuven. Dia memiliki gelar BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) dari Macquarie University, dan gelar PhD dari Law Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.