She is also a member of the International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee (Vic Division) and the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Alison has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. Alison's major research interests are in the fields of international institutional law, human rights law and international humanitarian law. She is the author of the book, The Participation of States in International Organisations: The Role of Human Rights and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2011).