Melanie O'Brien

Melanie O'Brien
EducationBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, doctorate, master's degree 
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Employer
Position heldPresident of IAGS (since 2021)

Melanie O'Brien is a legal scholar specialising in relations between sexual and gender-based violence against women, atrocities such as genocide and international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Since 2022 or earlier she has been an associate professor at the University of Western Australia. O'Brien has been the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars from 2021–2025.