Allanah Colley

Allanah Colley (she/her) is a PhD Candidate with the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW). She researches primarily in the areas of gender and sexuality law, criminal law, international criminal law and access to justice.

Allanah is from Aotearoa New Zealand and has a BA/LLB(Hons) from the University of Auckland and an LLM from New York University. Allanah has worked in legal practice since 2017, as a Judges’ Clerk/Associate at the New Zealand High Court in Wellington, an Assistant Crown Counsel in the Criminal Team at the New Zealand Crown Law Office, and a Senior Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law. Allanah moved overseas in 2021 and has subsequently worked at the Infected Blood Inquiry in the United Kingdom and at the King’s County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. While completing her PhD, Allanah continues her role as an International Consultant with the United Nations Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Allanah co-founded the New Zealand Women’s Law Journal – Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ngā Wāhine, the only academic publication dedicated to gender justice scholarship in Aotearoa New Zealand. She was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal in 2017 and 2018, and remains a Trustee of the Journal.