Anita Mackay

About

Dr Anita Mackay is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT School of Law. RESEARCH Anita's research interests are varied, but the unifying theme is how law (particularly human rights law) may be used as a tool to protect vulnerable and marginalised members of the community. For example: 1) the protection afforded to people in prison by international human rights law (Anita's recent book 'A Children's Rights Assessment of Juvenile Detention in Australia' (Routledge, 2025) is about human rights compliance in Australian youth detention: https://bit.ly/4eveJgY) (she also published a book in 2020 about adult prisons) and 2) the protection of vulnerable witnesses during criminal trials and Royal Commissions. Anita has an interest in how law reform processes, such as Parliamentary Committees and Royal Commissi