Staff Directory Jane McAdam
Associate Professor Director of International Law Programs Director of International Refugee and Migration Law Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law BA (Hons) Syd; LLB (Hons) Syd; DPhil Oxon
Contact Details Telephone:  +61 2 9385 2210 Email:  j.mcadam@unsw.edu.au Office:  Law Building 342

Dr Jane McAdam is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW. She is also the Director of International Law Programs, the Director of International Moots, and the Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. She is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, and has also been the Director of Oxford’s International Summer School in Forced Migration. She previously taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, and at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, where she obtained her doctorate.

Jane is the author of Complementary Protection in International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007); co-author with Guy S Goodwin-Gill of the University of Oxford of the third edition of The Refugee in International Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007); and the editor of Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2008). She is currently working on two new books: a monograph entitled Climate-Induced Displacement and International Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming 2011), and an edited collection entitled Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Hart Publishing, Oxford, forthcoming 2010).

Jane currently holds two Australian Research Council Discovery Grants. The first is a three-year grant entitled ‘Weathering Uncertainty: Climate Change “Refugees” and International Law’, which supports Jane’s research on climate-induced displacement. More information about that project can be found here: http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/projects_partners/projects/irml/index.asp. The second is a four-year grant on ‘Immigration Restriction and the Racial State, c. 1880 to the Present’, which examines the history of medico legal border control in the Asia Pacific region. This grant is held in conjunction with two historians, Associate Professor Alison Bashford at Sydney University and Dr Sunil Amrith at the University of London.

Jane has also been awarded a grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council International Opportunities Fund for a collaborative project with Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (Oxford), Professor Geoff Gilbert (Essex), Professor Kate Jastram (Berkeley) and Professor James Simeon (York University, Toronto). The research project is entitled `War Crimes and Refugee Status: The Application and Interpretation of International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law to the Adjudication of Refugee Status in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand`.

Jane is the Associate Rapporteur of the Convention Refugee Status and Subsidiary Protection Working Party for the International Association of Refugee Law Judges. She is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Law Association (Australian Branch); a Member of International Law Association (World) International Teaching Committee; Vice-President of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service in Sydney; on the Steering Committee of Green Cross Australia’s ‘Sea-Level Rise: A People’s Assembly’; and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre. Jane has worked on a variety of projects with UNHCR, the European Union, Green Cross Australia, the Czech–Helsinki Committee, Amnesty International, the Refugee Council of Australia, and the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian International Law Journal, a former General Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and a former member of the Editorial Board of the Sydney Law Review.