Dr. Svetlana Tyulkina is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Justice (School of Global and Public Law) and a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She joined the Faculty in 2011 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge, based at the Centre.

Before joining UNSW, Svetlana completed her PhD at Central European University, where her doctoral thesis, Militant Democracy, examined the regulation of undemocratic political movements. Her research focuses on comparative counter-terrorism and constitutional law, and she has published widely and presented at numerous Australian and international conferences on these topics. Her book, Militant Democracy – Undemocratic Political Parties and Beyond, was published by Routledge in January 2015.

Svetlana is also Co-Director of the Public Law Teaching Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a member of the Legal Education Research Group at the Law Schools Global League. In addition to teaching across various public law courses, she researches and publishes on legal education, with a particular focus on oral competencies, the pedagogy of vulnerability, and the role of AI in the law curriculum.