Shannon Maree Torrens is an international and human rights lawyer and late stage PhD candidate (international criminal law) from the University of Sydney Law School. She is admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. Sha...More
Shannon Maree Torrens is an international and human rights lawyer and late stage PhD candidate (international criminal law) from the University of Sydney Law School. She is admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. Shannon has previously worked at the international criminal courts for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Cambodia. She has also served as a legal advisor for the Marshall Islands Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. Shannon has workd on issues of climate change with the diplomatic advisory group Independent Diplomat (ID), advising the Marshall Islands on climate change issues and their representation in the UNFCCC process. In this capacity she advised Tony de Brum, the former Foreign Minister (and Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his work on climate change) of the Marshall Islands. In other experiences Shannon has worked with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the World Food Programme (WFP). She has also worked with the Australian Embassies to Italy and the Holy See (the Vatican). Shannon has also worked in human rights issues with Redfern Legal Centre in Sydney and has spent time working in the Wik remote Aboriginal community in far north Cape York, Australia on issues of native title. Shannon has worked as an editorial advisor for the Cambodia Law and Policy Journal and has served on the Board of the University of Sydney Law School. Shannon has lectured, published and presented papers in the areas of human rights, international criminal law and human rights internationally.
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