Anita Mackay

Dr Anita Mackay has been researching the compliance of Australian prisons with Australia’s international human rights law obligations since 2011. She has been an academic at La Trobe Law School (La Trobe University, Melbourne) since 2016 and is currently a senior lecturer. Dr Mackay was a research assistant on the ‘Applying Human Rights in Closed Environments: A Strategic Framework for Compliance’ Australian Research Council Linkage project (2011-2014) and co-edited Human Rights in Closed Environments with Professor Bronwyn Naylor and Associate Professor Julie Debeljak (2014). Prior to 2011, Dr Mackay worked as a senior legal officer in a variety of government policy areas, including family law and access to justice.

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