Malcolm Jorgensen
PhD Candidate
malcolm.jorgensen@sydney.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9036 9055
Malcolm Jorgensen commenced his PhD in US Foreign Policy in 2010 under the supervision of Associate Professor Brendon O’Connor and co-supervision of Professor David Weisbrot, AM. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) with majors in Economics and International Relations, each from the University of Queensland. He was awarded First Class Honours for his 2006 thesis examining the constraints international law places on the use of military force, specifically the role international law played in United States foreign policy leading up to the 2003 Iraq War.
He is an academic tutor in undergraduate units of study taught by Professor Geoffrey Garrett and Associate Professor O'Connor. He previously tutored for Associate Professor O’Connor at Griffith University in Brisbane and in International Relations units at the University of Queensland. Following undergraduate studies Malcolm was a Judge's Associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland to Justice P.D.T. Applegarth and Senior Judge N.A. Skoien (Ret.). He was subsequently admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Queensland and of the High Court of Australia and worked as a commercial litigation solicitor.
His research looks at the influence of foreign policy ideology and strategic ideas on U.S. international law policy. The focus is on cases where government legal counsel have disagreed on international law policy in matters of national security. Malcolm has spent the latter half of 2011 in the U.S. conducting archival and interview research for this project.
