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DrYvonne Breitwieser-Faria

Lecturer

Curtin Law School

BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH IMPACT

Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria is a lecturer with half a decade experience teaching and coordinating public international law and criminal law subjects. She is currently also the Director of Learning and Teaching for the Curtin Law School.

 

Yvonne is an external Fellow of the University of Queensland's Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, a committee member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law's International Peace and Security Interest Group, and is on the editorial team of the ANZSIL Perspectives.

 

She holds a Magistra iuris with specialisation in international legal practice and language and an LLM from the University of Vienna, and a PhD from the University of Queensland.

CURTIN UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

  • Director of Learning and Teaching
    Curtin University, Curtin Law School, Perth, Australia3 Feb 2025 - present
  • Lecturer
    Curtin University, Curtin Law School, Perth, Australia1 Jul 2024 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Casual Academic
    The University of Queensland, TC Beirne Law School, Brisbane, Australia1 Aug 2019 - 30 Jun 2024

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Sentence Planning Adviser / Sentence Planning Coordinator
    Queensland Corrective Services, Brisbane, Australia2 Oct 2017 - 31 Mar 2019
  • Legal Career Development Coordinator
    Queensland Law Society, Brisbane, Australia1 Feb 2016 - 4 Aug 2017
  • Project Manager and Research Consultant
    P/S/R Institute, Vienna, Austria1 Jul 2014 - 30 Apr 2015

DEGREES

  • PhD
    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia2023
  • Master of Laws
    University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria2015
  • Magistra iuris
    University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria2014

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
    Carson Australasia, Brisbane, Australia2016

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • German
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can read and write

ROLE

  • Staff

SUPERVISOR LEVEL

  • Level 2 (Co-Supervisor): Provides supporting supervision and subject-matter expertise alongside the primary supervisor.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • 4803 - International and comparative law
  • 4804 - Law in context
  • 4807 - Public law

DEPARTMENT

  • Curtin Law School