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Dr Narrelle Morris is a Senior Lecturer at the Curtin Law School. She was a Research Fellow in the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the Melbourne Law School from 2009-13, where she was the principal legal researcher on the Australia Research Council-funded Linkage project Australia’s Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series. This project is supported by the Australian War Memorial and Defence Legal and aims to provide a comprehensive and systematic examination and analysis of the Australian war crimes trials of the Japanese in the post-World War II period.

Her current research project, funded by an Australia Research Council DECRA Award in December 2013, is on the Australian war crimes investigator and jurist Sir William Flood Webb.

Her book Japan-bashing: Anti-Japanism since the 1980s was published by Routledge in 2010. She is also a co-editor and contributing author to Georgina Fitzpatrick, Timothy McCormack and Narrelle Morris (eds), Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2016. Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51 was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Prize in Australian History in 2017.

Her most recent book is Japanese War Crimes in the Pacific: Australia’s Investigations and Prosecutions, Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2019, https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/research-guides/japanese-war-crimes-pacific-australias-investigations-and-prosecutions.

Recent Publications

• Narrelle Morris, ‘Australian Representatives to the UNWCC, 1943-1948’, Journal of the History of International Law, accepted 22 July 2020, forthcoming 2021.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘A “City Left Without News”: The 1944 Press Censorship Controversy in Sydney’, in Catherine Bond (ed) Law and War, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021, pp. 110-41.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘Constructing the Historical Legacy of the IMTFE: Reassessing Perceptions of President William Webb’, in Viviane E. Dittrich, Kerstin von Lingen, Philipp Osten, and Jolana Makraiová (eds.), The Tokyo Tribunal – Perspectives on Law, History, and Memory, Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2020, pp. 275-99.
• Narrelle Morris, Japanese War Crimes in the Pacific: Australia’s Investigations and Prosecutions, Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2019, http://guides.naa.gov.au/jpn/index.aspx.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘Accessing the Archives of Australian War Crimes Trials after World War II’, in Ann Genovese, Trish Luker and Kim Rubenstein (eds), The Court as Archive: Rethinking the Institutional Role of Federal Superior Courts of Record, Canberra: ANU E Press, 2019, pp. 145-64, https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/court-archive.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘From Morotai to Manus: The Australian War Crimes Trials of the Japanese, 1945-1951 and the Australian Legal Profession’, Australian Law Journal, vol. 93, no. 6, June 2019, pp. 484-98.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘Sir William Webb and Beyond: Australia and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East’, in Kerstin von Lingen (ed), Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 44-64.
• Narrelle Morris and Aden Knaap, ‘When Institutional Design is Flawed: Problems of Cooperation at the United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1943-48’, European Journal of International Law, vol. 28, no. 2, July 2017, pp. 513-34.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘“Gross inefficiency and criminal negligence”: The Services Reconnaissance Department in Timor 1943-45 and the Darwin War Crimes Trials in 1946’, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 31, no. 2, February 2017, pp. 179-94.
• Georgina Fitzpatrick, Timothy McCormack and Narrelle Morris (eds), Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2016.
• Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris, ‘The Australian War Crimes Trials, 1945-51’, in Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris (eds), Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2016, pp. 5-26.
• Narrelle Morris, ‘The Australian War Criminals Compounds at Rabaul and on Manus Island, 1945-53’, in Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris (eds), Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2016, pp. 689-731.
• Narrelle Morris and Tim McCormack, ‘Were the Australian Trials Fair?’, in Georgina Fitzpatrick, Tim McCormack and Narrelle Morris (eds), Australia’s War Crimes Trials 1945-51, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2016, pp. 781-815.

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Australia

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Australia, Japan

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century

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Diplomacy, Government, Human Rights, Law, Military, World War II