Mai Sato

Associate Professor, Law Resources mai.sato@monash.edu

Biography

Mai is the inaugural director of Eleos Justice and her academic focus is on the death penalty. She is a social scientist by training and has led and worked on projects on the death penalty in Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. Her research topics include the death penalty, war on drugs, extra-judicial killings, miscarriages of justice, policing, and international human rights law.

articles

Human rights violations and the death penalty

Many countries that have not yet abolished the death penalty flout their international obligation to limit it to only the most serious crimes.

Politics and society

Exterior shot of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea building

Death penalty again becomes a real prospect in Papua New Guinea

While most other Pacific nations take strong abolitionist stances on the death penalty, PNG is moving in the opposite direction – despite not having executed any prisoners since 1954.

Politics and society