Advisory Committee
Alison Battisson
Alison is a human rights lawyer specialising in unlawful detention. Alison founded Human. Rights for All, which represents refugees, stateless and indigenous people in immigration prisons on a pro bono basis.
Alison has also worked as a corporate lawyer for top tier firms in Australia, the UK and Indonesia, as well as with various volunteer organisations in Zimbabwe, Australia and the UK.
Alison has a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from the University of Sydney, a Bachelors of Asian Studies and Arts from the Australian National University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Law from the University of London and a Masters of Law (Human Rights and Social Justice) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
X: @HumanRights4A
www.hr4a.com.au
dr. dara conduit
Dara Conduit is a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C.
In addition to conducting research on authoritarianism, autocratic technology-use and hostage diplomacy in Iran and Syria, Dara was one of the leaders of the Australian campaign to bring Kylie Moore-Gilbert home from Iran.
She brings with her a wealth of campaign experience as well as subject-matter expertise on the Middle East and hostage diplomacy.
X: @daraconduit
sara kowal
Sara Kowal began her career practising criminal law and has extensive experience in the defence of complex prosecutions. She also has a Masters Degree in Public Policy & Management.
Sara is the Vice-President of Capital Punishment Justice Project (formerly Reprieve Australia), an Australian NGO with the single aim to abolish the death penalty worldwide.
In 2018, CPJP partnered with the Monash Law faculty to create Eleos Justice, which carries out research, teaching and advocacy on the right to life. As Deputy Director of Eleos Justice, Sara runs the Eleos Anti-Death Penalty Clinic, working with law students and international partners on capital defence casework and advocacy.
Since November 2019, Sara has been an Executive Committee member of the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN). She also sits on a number of sub-committees of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
X: @sarakowal
www.cpjp.org.au
Dan Mori
Lieutenant Colonel USMC (Retired) Dan Mori is the founder of the not-for-profit Australians Detained Abroad, which provides support to Australian families who have loved ones detained overseas.
After graduating from the Western New England School of Law in 1994 Dan had a long career serving as a defence counsel, Military Justice Officer and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Marine Corps.
In 2003 Dan was appointed by the U.S Department of Defence to represent Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.
In 2007 he was awarded an honorary membership of the Australian Bar Association in recognition of his work defending Hicks and in 2009 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and made a senior military judge.
Dan has lived in Melbourne and was appointed a special senior fellow at the Monash University Faculty of Law.
www.australiansdetainedabroad.org