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Professor Kerstin Braun is a faculty member at the School of Law and Justice, University of Southern Queensland. Her research spans criminal law, comparative law, and human rights law, with a focus on voluntary assisted dying, victim participation rights, and gender-related legal frameworks.
- LLM and PhD from the University of Queensland
- Teaching since 2014: Criminal Law (LAW 1121/5121) and Legal Writing (LAW 1112/51121)
- Administrative role: Associate Head (Research) since 2017
Her research explores intersections of criminal law and human rights, including international case studies on assisted dying laws, gender-based violence, and procedural reforms in Queensland and Germany. She contributes to debates on secularism, forensic evidence admissibility, and prosecutorial guidelines.
Recent publications (2024-2020) focus on assisted dying legislation, double jeopardy reforms, and victim rights in Australia/Germany. Collaborative works with scholars like Anthony Gray examine conscientious objection and discrimination law.
Professor Braun supervises doctoral research on jury selection and bail reforms. Her work is affiliated with the Centre for Health Research at UniSQ, combining empirical analysis and normative legal theory.
