LIONEL MURPHY POSTGRADUATE SCHOLAR
Name:
Malcolm LANGFORD
Year:
2000
Scholarship:
Overseas
Malcolm Langford - Introduction
Malcolm is a human rights lawyer and Senior Legal Officer at
the Centre on Housing Rights and Eviction (COHRE), an
international human rights organisation based in Geneva. He is
also European Research Associate at the Australian Human
Rights Centre (University of NSW) and Senior Research
Associate at the University of Mannheim in Germany. With the
support of the Lionel Murphy Foundation, Malcolm completed a
Master in Comparative, European and International Law at the
European University Institute in Italy in 2001.
Malcolm regularly carries out litigation and advocacy projects
on social rights in many regions of the world in collaboration
with local organisations. He advises various UN agencies on
human rights and developments issues and frequently lectures
and teaches on economic, social and cultural rights. He has
helped pioneer the development of new international legal
standards, for example General Comment No. 15 on the Right to Water, issued by
the UN
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the adoption of
guidelines to
prevent forced evictions at the national level. He has published forty articles and
books on human
rights, economics and law with a major book, Social Rights Jurisprudence, to be
published by
Cambridge University Press in late 2006.
Previously, he has worked for the Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity
Commission,
World Vision Australia and a private law firm, and was the inaugural coordinator of
the
Australian Human Rights Information Centre. Malcolm’s spent his youth in
Bougainville, Papua
New Guinea and later in Sydney where he obtained degrees in economics (with
University Medal)
and law at the University of New South Wales. He also spent a significant time
working with
church and community-based groups in Sydney and Melbourne on housing issues.
Malcolm currently lives in Berlin with his partner and their one-year old daughter. He
also plays
in a Berlin-based funk rock band, The Frenzy, which started during his time at the
European
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University Institute. He will be based in Oslo, Norway, from 1 January 2007. He can
be contacted
at malcolm.langford@gmail.com
Publications
Books
Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and
Comparative
Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). (Edited book and wrote 3
chapters)
Current Issues in Litigation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Workshop
Proceedings
(with Bret Thiele and John Squires) (Sydney: University of NSW Press, 2005) (Edited
book and
wrote 2 chapters).
Other monographs
with Bruce Porter and Aoife Nolan, ‘The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights:
An Updated
Appraisal’ (Belfast: Committee on the Administration of Justice, 2006).
with Aoife Nolan, Litigating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Legal Practitioners
Dossier
(Revised), Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions, Geneva, forthcoming 2006)
pp.300.
with Virginia Roaf and Ashfaq Khalfan, Indicators for the Right to Water: Concept
Paper (Berlin:
Heinrich Boell Foundation, Bread for the World and Centre on Housing Rights and
Evictions,
2005).
Litigating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Achievements, Challenges and
Strategies
(Geneva: Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions, 2003), pp.184.
with Ashfaq Khalfan, Carolina Fairstein and Hayley Jones, The Right to Water:
National and
International Standards (Geneva: Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions, 2003)
pp.120.
Articles in Books and Journals
‘Expectation of Plenty: Response to Stephen Tully’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human
Rights, Vol.
26, No. 3 (2006).
‘Ambition that overleaps itself? A Response to Stephen Tully’s ‘Critique’ of the
General Comment
on the Right to Water’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 26, No. 3
(2006).
‘The Right to Water in National Law: A Review’, in Eibe Riedel (ed.) The Human
Right to Water
(Berlin: Berliner WissenschaftsVerlag, 2006), p. 115-126.
‘The Right to Social Security and Implications for Law, Policy and Practice’ in Eibe
Riedel (ed.)
Right to Social Security (Berlin: Berliner WissenschaftsVerlag, forthcoming 2006).
with Ashfaq Khalfan, ‘El derecho humano al agua’ in El derecho humano al agua en
México,
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Centroamérica y en el Caribe – Visiones versus Realidades (Berlin: Heinrich Boell
Foundation,
2006)
‘The UN Concept of the Right to Water: New Paradigm for Old Problems?’
International Journal
of Water Resources Development, Vol. 21, No. 2, June (2005) pp. 273-282.
with Anton Kok, ‘Right to Water’, in Matthew Chaskalson, Janet Kentridge, Jonathan
Klaaren.
Gilbert Marcus, Derek Spitz and Stuart Woolman (eds.), Constitutional Law of South
Africa, 2nd
Ed. (Pretoria: Juta and Centre for Human Rights, 2005), pp. 56B-1-28.
with Anton Kok, ‘Right to Water in the South African Constitution’ in Danie Brand and
Christoph Heyns (eds.), Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa, 2nd Ed., (Pretoria:
Pretoria
University Law Press, 2005), pp. 191-208, available at
http://www.chr.up.ac.za/centre_publications/socio/book/Chapter%206-Water.pdf
‘Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’, Right to Food Journal, Winter
2003.
with J Delaney, ‘Nonsense upon Stilts: East Timor and the International Court of
Justice’
Australian Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3 (1996), pp. 141-151.
‘Best Practice Disability Employment Policy’ Eden Network, February 2000.
‘Judge Darius, Dworkin and Fish: In the Lion's Den of Interpretation’, Australasian
Law
Students Academic Journal (1995) pp. 55-66.
Wukandi: Youth Initiatives for Indigenous Reconciliation in Australia, forthcoming
World
Vision Publication, London 2001.
‘Access to Records in NSW’ in The Stolen Generation: A Legal Issues Paper for
Lawyers and
Other Advisers, Public Interest Law Clearing House Inc, 1997, 64-78.
‘The Gender Wage Gap in the 1990's’ Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 34 (1995),
pp. 62-85.
Working Papers
with Jean du Plessis, ‘Dignity in the Rubble? Forced Evictions and Human Rights
Law’, available
at www.cohre.org/kenya
with Scott Leckie ‘The Right to Housing and the European Convention on Human
Rights’,
Discussion Paper, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Geneva (forthcoming).
‘International Accountability for Forced Evictions? The Case of Zimbabwe’,
Discussion Paper
No.3/2006, COHRE Africa Programme, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions,
Geneva
(forthcoming September 2006).
with Leticia Osorio, Opiata Odindo and Birte Scholz, Land Policy and Grassroots
Participation,
Discussion Paper No.2/2006, COHRE Africa Programme, Centre on Housing Rights
and
Evictions, Geneva (forthcoming October 2006).
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The World Market for Desiccated Coconut: A Philippines Perspective, Research
Report No. 5,
Australian Centre for Agricultural Research, Centre for Applied Economic Research,
University of
NSW, 1994.
Shorter Articles
with Monika Lueke, ‘A place to call home? Migrants and Housing Rights’, Habitat
Debate, Vol. 12,
No. 3 (2006).
with Bret Thiele, ‘‘The Right to Return, Resettlement and Restitution after the
Tsunami disaster’,
LST Review, Vol. 16, No. 218, December 2005, pp. 15-21.
‘The Right to Return and Resettlement after the Tsunami disaster’ Disaster Brief, Vol.
2, No.2
(2005), available at www.disasterwatch.net/FOCUS/COHRE.htm.
‘Judging Social Rights, Human Rights Tribune, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2005), available at
http://www.hri.ca/tribune/onlineissue/V11-3-2005/Social_Rights.html
‘Gathering Steam? A Review of Recent Cases from the European Committee on
Social Rights’, 2
Housing & ESC Rights Law Quarterly 2 (2005) 3-4, available at
www.cohre.org/litigation
with Ashfaq Khalfan, ‘Human Right to Water’, The Optimist, Winter, 2005.
Malcolm Langford, Statement by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions on the
Right to
Social Security, Geneva, January 2005, available at
http://www.escrnet.org/GeneralDocs/COHRE%20Oral%20Statement_Social%20Security.pdf
‘Right to Water and Sanitation’ in Human Rights Reference Handbook (UN University
for Peace,
Costa Rica, 2004)
‘The Question of Resources’, 1 Housing & ESC Rights Law Quarterly, Vol. 3 (2004),
pp. 1-4,
available at www.cohre.org/litigation
‘Slum-Dwellers Rights to Life & Property: Öneryildiz v Turkey’, Housing & ESC Rights
Case Law
Update, Issue 1, May 2003, available at www.cohre.org/litigation
‘The Right to Food in Australia’, Human Rights Defender, Vol. 8, (December 1999).
‘Pride, Prejudice and Persistence: the Gender Wage Gap’, Values (Summer 1996/7),
pp. 1-3.
‘Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’ (1996) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander News,
Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
‘Economic Dimensions of Human Rights Workshop’ Human Rights Defender, Vol. 5
(March
1996), p. 15.
‘East Timor - The World Court Mumbles’ Human Rights Defender, Vol. 4 (August
1995).
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