Alternative Approached to Justice: Are Victims Better Off?
27 September, 2007


Sam Garkawe
Associate Professor, Southern Cross University NSW

Sam is an Associate Professor at the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, NSW. Sam completed his Law Degree at Monash University, Melbourne, and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He has been employed in a number of legal environments, including private practice, legal aid, as a research solicitor for the Victorian parliament, and has been an academic since 1991. He further holds a Masters of Law from London University, and is also admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in California.

His research interests are in the fields of international and national criminal justice, victimology, human rights, terrorism and the law, restorative justice and international law. He presently teaches human rights, victimology, criminal law & procedure, international law and international criminal justice at Southern Cross University.

Sam has also taught post-graduate courses at the Criminology Department of Melbourne University and at the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Institute Of Human Rights And Criminal Justice Studies, at Technikon SA, Florida, Johannesburg, South Africa (2001), and a Visiting Professor at Hamline University School Of Law, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (2001), Whittier School of Law, California, USA (2004) and City University of Hong Kong (2006).


Sam Garkawe CV