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I am a PhD Candidate at Melbourne Law School, where my research examines the intersections of international disaster law, humanitarian governance, legal theory, and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). My work explores how international law shapes disaster governance, political subjectivity, and historical memory, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific.

My doctoral research develops the concept of Oblivion to examine how humanitarian legality can recognise suffering while simultaneously obscuring the historical conditions through which disaster risk is produced. Drawing on legal theory, postcolonial scholarship, and humanitarian studies, I investigate how law constructs vulnerability, responsibility, and justice beyond conventional understandings of disaster response.

Alongside my doctoral research, I have published on international disaster law, disaster governance, bushfire law, environmental regulation, and humanitarian governance. My work has appeared in journals and edited collections, and I regularly engage with academic, professional, and policy audiences through teaching, invited lectures, and collaborative research.

Before commencing my doctoral studies, I worked as a transnational legal advisor, an experience that continues to inform my interest in the relationship between legal institutions, governance, and social justice.

My broader research interests include:

• International Disaster Law

• Humanitarian Governance

• Legal Theory

• Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)

• Disaster Jurisprudence

• Feminist International Law

• Law and Political Subjectivity

• Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific