Dr Emma Buxton-Namisnyk is a Lecturer in the School of Law, Society and Criminology in the UNSW Faculty of Law. She completed her DPhil as a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2022. Emma researches at the intersection of criminology and international human rights law, with a particular emphasis on domestic and family violence and sexual violence responses (including policing and specialist service responses), state responsibilities and intersecting rights. Emma also has a strong interest in legal and criminological theory and comparative human rights law.

Before commencing in UNSW Faculty of Law, Emma worked extensively in the fields of domestic violence death review, coronial law and First Nations justice. Emma worked in the Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor Indigenous UNSW from 2020-2021 and as a member of the Indigenous Law Centre. She was the inaugural Research Analyst on the NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team from 2012-2021 and a senior researcher on the Family is Culture Review into Aboriginal Children in Out-of-Home Care in 2018-2019. Emma has also worked as a tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Sackville AO QC at the NSW Court of Appeal, as an associate at Baker & McKenzie Sydney and as an international clerk in Bangkok.