Joanna Jarose

Joanna Jarose

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

Adelaide Law School

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Joanna is an HDR candidate within the Adelaide Law School. Her PhD project examines the potential strengthening of civilian protections in the customary Law of Naval Warfare since the late 1970s, due to the informal transposition of the limitations applied solely to conflict affecting land targets by Section I, Part IV of Additional Protocol I.

Joanna graduated from the honours degree of Bachelor of Laws in December 2023, with first class honours and a University Medal. She was the recipient of numerous undergraduate prizes, including the Angas Parsons Prize for most meritorious honours graduate and the Stow Medal. Her honours thesis, which examined the inchoate protective potential of the largely-disregarded Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, was published in the July 2024 issue of the American Journal of International Law.

She has been a researcher for the Research Unit on Military Law and Ethics since September 2021, with involvement in numerous projects spanning the whole range of that unit's focus interests. Her work for RUMLAE has covered areas including international humanitarian law, the law of naval warfare, space law, cyber and influence operations, current and historical Australian military law, and protection of cultural and environmental objects during armed conflict. She was co-rapporteur for the State consultation process for the draft Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations, held in the Hague in June 2022.

Joanna has also taught at the Adelaide Law School since commencing her PhD. Her roles have included course coordinator and sole instructor for Introduction to Australian Law, assistant course coordinator and lecturer in Statutory Interpretation, seminar leader in International Law, and provision of numerous guest lectures in undergraduate and postgraduate international law subjects.

Joanna's PhD project examines the potential development of the customary Law of Naval Warfare due to the rise of Additional Protocol I civilian protections in the land context. The bulk of targeting limitations and civilian protections are provided in Section I of Part IV of Additional Protocol I. However, despite specification within Art 49(3) of Additional Protocol I that such protections would not apply to ship-to-ship or ship-to-air warfare, a clear delineation of this kind has not been maintained either by academic projects (such as the San Remo Manual) or by States. Joanna seeks to examine how the customary Law of Naval Warfare has changed since the late 1970s and, in particular, the impact this has on the exercise of belligerent rights such as visit and search.

 

Commonwealth RTP Scholarship and Zelling-Gray Supplementary Scholarship - 2024

Semester 2, 2024: Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Introduction to Australian Law; Seminar leader for International Law; Sessional Lecturer for AI & Technology: Legal and Security Issues, and Cyber Security and Cyber Conflict Law 

Winter 2024: Assistant Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Statutory Interpretation

Semester 1, 2024: Course Coordinator and Lecturer for Introduction to Australian Law; Sessional Lecturer for the Law of Naval Warfare, LTM-3 Operations Law, and International Humanitarian Law & Advocacy - semester 1, 2024

Full year, 2023: International Student Support Tutor

  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2024 - 2025 Secretary SA Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee South Australian Red Cross Australia

  • Offices Held
    Date Office Name Institution Country
    2024 - ongoing Associate Editor Adelaide Law Review Australia
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