Associate ProfessorRayner Thwaites

BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Melbourne) LLM SJD (Tor)

Rayner Thwaites' research is on the implications of having, or lacking, citizenship status; the interstices between domestic and international law; and comparative public law. He is currently working on his second Australian Research Council (ARC) project, ‘Citizenship and Belonging in Australian Law and History’, with Elisa Arcioni and Helen Irving. Recent publications in the Modern Law Review and Federal Law Review have focused on proof of citizenship. With the current ARC project, his chapter ‘Citizenship and Immigration’ in the Cambridge Legal History of Australia and forthcoming projects, he is increasingly working in legal history. His work on the implications of lacking citizenship status builds on his 2014 comparative law monograph with Hart Publishing on the vulnerability of non-citizens to indefinite detention. He has served as an expert witness to parliamentary committees and statutory bodies on citizenship matters, in particular powers of citizenship deprivation, on multiple occasions.