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THE EDITORS
Mary Crock has worked in the area of immigration and refugee law since
1985. She is Professor of Public Law in the University of Sydney’s Law
School. Co-founder in 1989 of the specialist community legal service now
known as Refugee Legal in Melbourne, Victoria, she has been recognized
as an Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law since 1994. She has served
on a variety of national, state and NGO bodies relating to immigration,
refugees, disability and child protection. She has written extensively on
issues related to immigration and refugee law, authoring 13 books and
over 75 book chapters and refereed articles. Mary has had a research
focus on the laws, policies and practices involving migrant children since
2004, working with Jacqueline Bhabha on the three-country ‘Seeking
Asylum Alone’ Project and later on the Australian-based ‘Small Mercies,
Big Futures’ Project. Her most recent book (with L. Smith-Khan, B. Saul
and R.C. McCallum) is The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities:
Forgotten and Invisible? (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).
Lenni B. Benson is a Professor of Law at New York Law School. In 2012,
she founded the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit organization that has
aided over 1,500 unaccompanied youth by recruiting and mentoring pro
bono counsel. She is a member of several national task forces on the needs
of migrant youth, and has been a speaker for the federal government
at national trainings. In 2012 she completed, with Russell Wheeler, a
study of the immigration courts for the Administrative Conference of the
United States. She has won many honors and served in leadership posi-
tions related to her work in immigration law. Her book Immigration and
Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies (with L.A. Curcio, V.M. Jeffers
and S.W. Yale-Loehr) was published in 2013 and is updated annually.
CONTRIBUTORS
Edwin Odhiambo Abuya is Associate Professor in Law at the University of
Nairobi who lectures in Legal Research and Human Rights. His research
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focuses on forced migrants, statelessness, persons with disabilities and
issues around access to information. His publications include a 2010
report on statelessness for Kenya’s National Commission on Human
Rights and UNHCR.
Farrin R. Anello is a Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties
Union of New Jersey, where she conducts litigation and advocacy to
advance the rights of immigrants, Muslim Americans, and members of
other vulnerable communities. She has taught at various law schools
across the United States, and has supervised law students on a wide variety
of immigration matters.
Timnah Baker (BA/LLB Monash and LLM Boston) is a researcher at
the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School and
Ph.D candidate Sydney Law School. From 2009–2017 she was based at
Harvard University as visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs and Research Associate for the International Policy
and Law Analysis (IMPALA) Project.
Syd Bolton is a children’s human rights lawyer (solicitor, non-practising),
former legal and policy officer including for Coram Children’s Legal
Centre; The Children’s Legal Centre; Medical Foundation for the Care
of Victims of Torture; Islington Law Centre, Wilford Monro Solicitors.
He has conducted strategic litigation on children’s rights, spoken about
and delivered training on the rights of children, in particular, refugee,
asylum-seeking and migrant children, both nationally and internationally,
and was an adviser to the Children’s Commissioner for England. He is
co-convenor with Catriona Jarvis of ‘The Last Rights Project’ which calls
for the development of new frameworks to deal with missing and dead
refugees and migrants.
Kate Bones is a migration lawyer working at Refugee Legal, a specialist
community legal centre in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked previ-
ously as research assistant to Professor Mary Crock and Professor Ben
Saul at the University of Sydney, and in the Civil Justice Program at
Victoria Legal Aid.
Carmelo Danisi is a Research fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, and
Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Bologna,
Forlì campus. He has been Endeavour Research Fellow at the Australian
National University, College of Law, and is involved in the ERC SOGICA
project. His research interests include human rights, especially with regard
to the European system of protection, non-discrimination, migration and
refugee law.
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Daniel Ghezelbash is a senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School. His
research focuses on comparative law with a particular interest in refugee
and immigration law. He has a particular interest in the diffusion of
restrictive asylum-seeker policies across jurisdictions. He is a practising
refugee and immigration lawyer and the founder and director of the
Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic.
pamela goldberg is a recognized expert in international refugee, human
rights and protection law and policy and has written and spoken widely
on these issues. She has been in the forefront of developing law and policy
for refugee claims of women and gender-based violence.
Carlos Holguín is General Counsel with the Centre for Human Rights
and Constitutional Law Foundation. He has over 30 years of legal
experience and has litigated multiple class actions on behalf of immigrants
and refugees. He currently serves as lead counsel for over 35 faith-based
groups and human rights organizations in a petition to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States
challenging a joint program of the United States and Mexico to interdict
and summarily deport persons, including thousands of children and fami-
lies, fleeing rampant violence in Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’:
Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Catriona Jarvis is a former judge of the United Kingdom Upper Tribunal
(Immigration and Asylum Chamber), who retired in 2013 with 21 years’
experience as a judge in the fields of immigration, asylum and human rights
law. She has extensive experience working internationally on refugee rights,
especially in relation to women and children, including publications and
training work with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the
European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and other organizations.
She is a Trustee and former Chair of the Board of Prisoners of Conscience
Appeal Fund; a Trustee and former Chair of the Inderpal Rahal Memorial
Trust; Chair of the Unaccompanied Migrant Children’s Court Steering
Group and member and former Rapporteur of The International Association
of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ, now IARMJ). She is Co-convenor with Syd
Bolton of ‘The Last Rights Project’ and author of ‘In Potters’ Fields’ which
addresses issues around missing and dead refugees and migrants.
Kavita Kapur is an international human rights and immigration lawyer,
focusing on asylum and refugee protection and migrants’ rights. She has
previously been involved with UNHCR operations in the Dominican
Republic, Haiti, Malaysia and the United States, and has volunteered in
detention centres in Greece. She has been involved in litigation on behalf
of migrants’ rights, both in the United States and internationally.
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Mary Anne Kenny is an Associate Professor at the School of Law at
Murdoch University, Perth Western Australia. She teaches and researches
in the area of refugee and immigration law. She is an adjunct Associate
Professor in the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University.
She is a member of the Australian Government’s Minister of Immigration
Advisory Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention (MCASD).
Joseph Lelliott holds an LLB(Hons)/BA from the University of
Queensland. He is a doctoral candidate, undertaking a thesis examining
the smuggling of unaccompanied minors. He has served as a consultant
to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and is
particularly interested in the intersections between migrant smuggling,
human trafficking and international human rights law.
Maryanne Loughry is a Sister of Mercy and a psychologist and has worked
in refugee work with the Jesuit Refugee Service since 1988. Dr Loughry is
a visiting research scholar at the School of Social Work, Boston College, a
Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford,
and a member of the Australian Government’s Minister of Immigration
Advisory Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention (MCASD).
Arezo Malakooti is an Australian trained lawyer, independent migration
researcher and an adviser to IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis
Centre in Berlin. She is an expert on the migratory movements from North
Africa to Europe and across the Mediterranean and assists European gov-
ernments in designing and evaluating migration policies and programs.
Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Director of Migration Research at
Altai Consulting.
Hannah Martin completed her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Bachelor
of Laws (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 2012. She has worked as
a research assistant to Professor Mary Crock and Emeritus Professor
Ron McCallum, AO. She now works as a solicitor, and is an Honorary
Research Affiliate at the Sydney Law School.
Isabel Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice at City University of New York. Dr Martinez is also
the Director of the Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project that
focuses on providing academic, social and legal support to recently arrived
immigrant minors. Her book, Becoming Transnational Youth Workers:
Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and
Social Mobility is forthcoming.
Gerald L. Neuman is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International,
Foreign and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. From 2011 to
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2014, he was a Member of the Human Rights Committee, the monitor-
ing body created by the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights.
Agnes Olusese is a humanitarian actor working with refugee and other
displaced populations in East Africa around issues of protection, child
protection, trafficking and rule of law as it affects displaced popula-
tions. She has a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher, Tufts
University, a second Master’s from Yale University and Bachelor of Law
from University of Nairobi.
Shamm Petros is a former refugee from Eritrea who has designed pro-
grams in economic development, education and protection for refugees
and displaced populations across the Middle East and East Africa. She is
currently a Master’s Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania studying
Counseling and Mental Health Services.
Geraldine Sadoway is a lawyer and law professor in Canada specializing in
refugee law and international human rights. She is co-author of Canadian
Human Rights Law and Commentary (3rd edn, 2016) and is a Director of
the International and Transnational Law Intensive Program at Osgoode
Hall Law School.
Andreas Schloenhardt is Professor of Criminal Law at the University
of Queensland in Brisbane and Professorial Research Fellow in the
Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of
Vienna. He serves as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) and the Council of Europe. Andreas is a Visiting
Professor at the University of Zurich and the University of St Gallen.
Savitri Taylor is an Associate Professor in the La Trobe Law School,
Melbourne. Her main area of research is international, regional and
Australian refugee law and asylum policy. Her current research project,
funded by the Australian Research Council, is entitled ‘Protecting Non-
citizens: An Australian Legal and Political History, 1945–89’.
Claire R. Thomas is an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School where
she directs the Asylum Clinic. She is the former director of training at
the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit that aids unaccompanied minors.
She was recently a Visiting Scholar at the New School’s Zolberg Institute
on Migration and Mobility. As a practising attorney she has represented
many young people and asylum-seekers, including those held in detention.
David B. Thronson is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for
Experiential Education at the Michigan State University College of Law.
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His research focuses on the intersection of family law and immigration
law, with particular emphasis on the impact of immigration law on
children.
Gillian Triggs is the former President of the Australian Human Rights
Commission. She was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Challis Professor
of International Law at the University of Sydney from 2007 to 2012 and
Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
from 2005 to 2007. She is a former Barrister and a former Governor of the
College of Law. Her focus at the Commission was on the implementation
in Australian law of the human rights treaties to which Australia is a
party. She is the author of many books and papers on international law,
including International Law: Contemporary Principles and Practices (2nd
edn, 2011).
Kasey Tyler uses her qualifications in law and child protection to promote
the rights of vulnerable children, both in Australia and internationally.
Kasey is a member of three emergency humanitarian rosters and has been
a Child Protection Officer for UNICEF Pacific and the United Nations
Mission in South Sudan.
Kathryn (Kate) E. van Doore is an international children’s rights lawyer
and an academic at Griffith Law School, Australia. Kathryn currently
researches the intersections of children’s rights, human trafficking and
modern slavery in international law. She was the recipient of the 2017
Anti-Slavery Freedom Award recognizing her significant contribution to
this area.
Shelly Whitman is the Executive Director of the Romeo Dallaire Child
Soldiers Initiative located at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is a
Professor in International Development and Political Science. Shelly has
published on issues related to children and armed conflict. Key appoint-
ments have included working on the peace process in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, as a professor at the University of Botswana, and
as a consultant to UNICEF, New York.
Phoebe Yule is a graduate from Sydney Law School and former
research associate for Professor Mary Crock at the University of
Sydney. She works as a solicitor and migration agent in Sydney, deliver-
ing legal advice to asylum-seekers as part of a government-funded legal
service.
Mimi Zou is the Career Development Fellow in Chinese Commercial
Law at the University of Oxford. She has previously taught at Columbia,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oxford, Utrecht University and
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Sydney University. Dr Zou has been a consultant at the International
Labour Organization since 2007. She received her law degree from
Sydney Law School and her doctorate from Oxford where she was a
Commonwealth Scholar.
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