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CONTACT DETAILS
CEPMLP
The University of Dundee
Carnegie Building
Dundee DD1 4HN
Room 2.03
Telephone: +44 (0)1382 388875
Fax: +44 (0)1382 385854
Contact Email: j.l.southalan@dundee.ac.uk
John joined the Centre in September 2007 as the Rio Tinto Research/Teaching Fellow. His main work is in the Centre's International Mining Programme.
John is an Australian lawyer and worked in private practice for over 6 years in areas including occupational health and safety in the resources sector, commercial disputes between gas & mining companies, and general commercial litigation. Since 1998, John has mainly worked in relation to human rights and rule of law issues. He worked from 1998-2000 in Thailand, through the Australian Volunteers program, with NGOs and has done continuing work with a Burmese NGO since then including research & writing and also law and human rights training on the Thai-Burma border. John worked for over 5 years with an NGO and Australia's human rights commission in relation to indigenous land rights. This included considerable input into industry and governmental reviews about mining and indigenous rights, and also involvement in the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development process.
Research
Research interests include resources agreements, corporate responsibility, and governance and rule of law issues.
