Jane McAdam
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About/Bio
Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, where she leads the Evacuations Research Hub. She holds a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship and is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and an Honorary Associate of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Professor McAdam publishes widely in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on mobility in the context of climate change and disasters. Professor McAdam has been leading the Kaldor Centre’s work on the toolkit and thanks the Open Society Foundations for its generous support.
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How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters
It was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an important body of case law and guidance has developed that shows clearly how, in the right factual scenario, people could indeed be…
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How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters
It was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an important body of case law and guidance has developed that shows clearly how, in the right factual scenario, people could indeed be…