
Overview
Background
Andreas Schloenhardt is Professor of Criminal Law in the School of Law at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and Honorary Professor for Foreign and International Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna, Austria. P
Professor Schloenhardt is the convenor of the Transnational Organised Crime programme (https://toc.jura.uni-koeln.de/), a research and learning network with academic staff and students from the University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the University of Cologne (Germany), the University of Ferrara (Italy), and the University of Queensland (Australia). Professor Schloenhardt holds a PhD in Law from The University of Adelaide. Prior to his position at The University of Queensland, he was a lecturer at The University of Adelaide Law School.
Professor Schloenhardt’s principal areas of research include criminal law, organised crime, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, wildlife trafficking, narco-trafficking, terrorism, criminology, and immigration and refugee law. He is the author of many books and journal articles and his work is frequently cited by other scholars, in government reports, and judicial decisions, including the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Austria.
Professor Schloenhardt has held adjunct appointments and visiting professorships at the University of Zurich, the University of St Gallen, the University of Ferrara, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law , The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. In 2011-2012, Professor Schloenhardt was a recipient of a Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Professor Schloenhardt is a member of the Austrian Society of Criminal Law and Criminology and he has worked extensively with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Council of Europe, the Global Initiative against Transnational Crime, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and a range of law enforcement agencies in Australia and Asia.
Availability
- Professor Andreas Schloenhardt is:
- Available for supervision
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
Research interests
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Smuggling of migrants, irregular migration, trafficking in persons
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Trafficking in fauna and flora: illegal trade in wildlife, animal parts and plants
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Organised Crime
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Immigration and Refugee Law
Research impacts
Professor Andreas Schloenhardt research work has shaped international and domestic laws and policies relating to organised crime, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, and other areas of criminal law. He has been instrumental in developing interpretative tools, assessment guides, best practice guidelines and drafted national laws on these and other topics. This includes, inter alia, the Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Assessment Guide for the Criminal Justice Response to Smuggling of Migrants, and the Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytical Toolkit. Professor Schloenhardt has developed a range of model laws for the United Nations and several Member States and worked closely with Australian Government agencies in the development and critical review of anti-organised crime legislation. His work has been cited in judicial decisions, including by the High Court of Australia, and he is frequent commentator in the Austrian, Australian, and Swiss news media.
Works
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2011
Conference Publication
Banning the Bikers: Organised Crime Offence in Australia
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2011). Banning the Bikers: Organised Crime Offence in Australia. Queensland Bar Association Annual COnference, Gold Coast, Qld, March 5, 2011.
2010
Journal Article
Honeymoon from hell: Human trafficking and domestic servitude in Australia
Schloenhardt, Andreas and Jolly, Jarrod (2010). Honeymoon from hell: Human trafficking and domestic servitude in Australia. Sydney Law Review, 32 (4), 671-692.
2010
Other Outputs
Wildlife and forest crime assessment toolkit
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Wildlife and forest crime assessment toolkit. Vienna, Austria: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); ICPO-INTERPOL; CITES Secretariat; World Bank.
2010
Conference Publication
Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities. State Legal Educators Conference, Queensland Law Society, Brisbane, August 27, 2010.
2010
Conference Publication
Mafias & Motorbikes: New Organised Crime Offences in Australia
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Mafias & Motorbikes: New Organised Crime Offences in Australia. AFP Serious & Organised Crime Symposium, Brisbane, May 13, 2010.
2010
Conference Publication
Slavery or Salvation? Unskilled Labour Migration into Queensland
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Slavery or Salvation? Unskilled Labour Migration into Queensland. Research Week, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, September 20, 2010.
2010
Journal Article
Reflections on R v Dobie
Schloenhardt, Andreas and O'Shea, Joseph (2010). Reflections on R v Dobie. Criminal Law Journal, 34 (6), 400-407.
2010
Conference Publication
Comparative Perspectives on Combating Human Trafficking
Schloenhardt, Andreas and Jonathan Todres (2010). Comparative Perspectives on Combating Human Trafficking. Conference, Georgia State University; Center for Law, Health, and Society, Atlanta, GA, February 23, 2010.
2010
Book
Palermo in the Pacific: Organised crime offences in the Asia Pacific region
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Palermo in the Pacific: Organised crime offences in the Asia Pacific region. Boston, Mass, U.S.A.: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004180451.i-430
2010
Conference Publication
Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities. Conference, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA, February 22, 2010.
2010
Journal Article
Palermo in the Pacific: Organized Crime Offenses in the Asia Pacific Region
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Palermo in the Pacific: Organized Crime Offenses in the Asia Pacific Region. Global Consortium on Security Transformation Working Papers, Working Paper No 8, 37-37.
2010
Conference Publication
Organised Crime Offences in the Asia Pacific Region
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Organised Crime Offences in the Asia Pacific Region. Global Consortium for Security Transformation, Organised Crime Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, September 16, 2010.
2010
Conference Publication
Mafias and Motorbikes: New Organised Crime Offences in Australia
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Mafias and Motorbikes: New Organised Crime Offences in Australia. Spring Seminar Series, University of Wollongong, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, Wollongong, September 1, 2010.
2010
Journal Article
Mission unaccomplished: Japan’s anti-Bôryoku-Dan law
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2010). Mission unaccomplished: Japan’s anti-Bôryoku-Dan law. Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, 15 (29), 123-136.
2009
Conference Publication
Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2009). Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities. Global Health and Human Rights, Seattle, WA, 111.
2009
Conference Publication
Palermo in the Pacific: Organised Crime Offences in the Asia Pacific Region
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2009). Palermo in the Pacific: Organised Crime Offences in the Asia Pacific Region. UNODC Report Launch, Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand, Bangkok, August 31, 2009.
2009
Journal Article
Trafficking in persons in Australia: Myths and realities
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2009). Trafficking in persons in Australia: Myths and realities. Global Crime, 10 (3), 224-247. doi: 10.1080/17440570903079931
2009
Other Outputs
Corruption in the forestry, wildlife, and fisheries sectors of Tanzania: an assessment of investigative and prosecutorial capacities
Schloenhardt, Andreas and Jarrod, Jolly (2009). Corruption in the forestry, wildlife, and fisheries sectors of Tanzania: an assessment of investigative and prosecutorial capacities. Vienna, Austria: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
2009
Conference Publication
Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2009). Trafficking in Persons in Australia: Myths and Realities. m/a, Townsville Legal Community Centre, February 4, 2009.
2009
Conference Publication
Happy Birthday Brothels! Ten Years of Prostitution Regulation in Queensland
Schloenhardt, Andreas (2009). Happy Birthday Brothels! Ten Years of Prostitution Regulation in Queensland. UQ Research Week 2009, Brisbane, Sep 21, 2009.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Available projects
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Crimes against the Environment in International Criminal Law
In 2023, the Council of Europe started to draft a new convention ‘to protect the environment through criminal law’. Similar initiatives have been debated in the United Nations systems and by academic experts. Research on this topic can examine the new Council of Europe Convention in detail or look more broadly at existing or emerging international frameworks to criminalise crime against the environment.
For further information please contact Professor Andreas Schloenhardt, e: a.schloenhardt@uq.edu.au.
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Crimes against Cultural Property in International Criminal Law
In 2017, the Council of Europe adopted a new Convention on Offences relating to Cultural Property. In addition, there is patchwork of other international frameworks that, directly or indirectly, address this crime type. Research on this topic can examine the new Council of Europe Convention in detail or look more broadly at existing or emerging international frameworks to criminalise offences relating to cultural property.
For further information please contact Professor Andreas Schloenhardt, e: a.schloenhardt@uq.edu.au.
Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
The Smuggling of Unaccompanied Minors: International Law and Domestic Contexts
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Billings
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Indonesia's Criminal Justice Response to the Smuggling of Migrants
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Melissa Curley
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
From Retribution to Reintegration? Drug Courts in Australia
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Child Death, Neglect & Criminal Responsibility: The (In)adequacy of the Law of Homicide in Australia in Cases of Child Fatality Resulting from Parental Neglect
Associate Advisor
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Accountability in Extraterritoriality: Principles, Means and Ends
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Anthony Cassimatis
Media
Enquiries
Contact Professor Andreas Schloenhardt directly for media enquiries about:
- Criminal law
- Criminology
- Detention of refugees and law
- Drug trafficking
- Human rights law
- Immigration law
- International criminal law
- Law - criminal
- Law - human rights
- Law - immigration
- Law - international criminal
- Law - refugee
- Organised crime
- Refugee law
- Terrorism
- Trafficking - drugs
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