Human Rights Law Essay Prize

The Human Rights Law Association received a large number of high quality entries for the 2025 Human Rights Law Essay Prize. 

The judging panel comprised the Honourable Richard Refshauge, Saul Holt KC and Dr Bruce Chen. They emphasised they were all impressed with the quality of the essays, that the essays were a pleasure to read and that choosing between them was extremely difficult. 

Georgia Pinney Gvozdic from the University of Melbourne was selected as the winner with her essay "Can Rights Based Climate Litigation Protect Country". 

The judging panel also gave honourable mentions to Ashleigh Edgar from Bond University and Noah Grubb from the University of Melbourne.

Congratulations to the winner and honourable mentions.  Our admiration goes to all the entrants who took the time to prepare and submit such high quality contributions to the discipline of human rights in Australia and New Zealand. Thank you to Saul Holt KC for donating the essay prize for 2025.