Jane McAdam

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Jane McAdam

AO FASSA
Born
Jane Alexandra McAdam

1974 (age 49–50)
Australia
Nationality Australian
OccupationLegal scholar
Employer University of NSW

Jane Alexandra McAdam AO FASSA (born 1974) is an Australian legal scholar, and expert in climate change and refugees. She is a Scientia Professor at the University of NSW, and is the inaugural Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2021 for “distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change”.

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Career

McAdam is the centre director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law [1] (UNSW) and a Scientia Professor of Law. [2] She holds or has held positions external to her current role, as a Senior Fellow at both The Brookings Institution, in the United States, and at the University of Oxford, as well as the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, and Refugee Law Initiative, London. [3] [4] [5]

She works on issues surrounding the human rights and legal issues around asylum seekers and refugees from climate change and climate disasters, including flooding, rising sea levels, rising temperatures and bushfires, as well as international travel around Covid restrictions. [6]

Specifically, McAdam's research focusses on the policy and legal responses that occur due to the impacts of climate change, and in particular, relocation that may be required due to climate change. [4] McAdam has commented on the consequences of a warming planet, and the impact on people forced to move on account of disasters and climate change, raising the question 'where will they go'? [7] [8] Over the course of her career she has won a number of international prizes for her work on human rights, including for research on climate change and forced migration. [9] She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law. [3]

Media

McAdam has contributed to the media on issues such as refugees, [10] and the suite of climate change issues that negatively impact people, including fires, floods, and rising water levels. For example she wrote about the Australian's displaced due to bushfires, where the 2019-2020 Black Summer January fires saw 65,000 displaced from their homes, [11] These bushfires lead to 35 deaths, burned 18.6 million ha, and destroyed over 5,900 buildings and 2,799 homes.

McAdam also has provided commentary around the policy of restrictions on people returning home to Australia in 2020-2021 following Covid-19 and the legal issues surrounding government restrictions. [12] McAdam has also written about the cost, legal and ethical issues of keeping refugees on Nauru and Manus Island. [2] She wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald around a decision, by the UN Human Rights Committee who decided that climate refugees cannot be forced to return to their homes. [13]

McAdam has contributed to The Conversation extensively, writing and providing commentary around refugee children, [14] Manus island, and the policies around asylum seekers. [15] She has also conduced fact checking for The Conversation around publicly made claims surrounding climate refugee numbers and estimates. [16] [17] [18] [19]

Select publications

As of December 2021, McAdam has an H number of over 30, and over 6,000 citations from her work, according to Google Scholar. [20]

Prizes and awards

Related Research Articles

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References

  1. ↑ "Kaldor Centre |". www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 Newsbot, T. B. S. (26 November 2021). "$385m contract to an $8 company: Yet more Nauru corruption emerges". The Big Smoke. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Contributors Articles | The Interpreter". www.lowyinstitute.org. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Professor Jane McAdam | Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)". www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong". Asylum Insight. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "Refugee advocate awarded prestigious international human rights prize". ABC Radio National. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "One person is displaced every second by our warming planet. Where will they go?". SBS News. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  8. ↑ Perkins, Miki (13 November 2021). "Island nations rise up as their homelands start to sink". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  9. ↑ McCutchan, Ellen (25 July 2017). "Australian professor wins prestigious human rights prize". The City Journal. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "Protecting people who lose their homes to climate change". www.lowyinstitute.org. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  11. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam. "Millions of people were evacuated during disasters last year – another rising cost of climate change". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  12. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam; Jefferies, Regina. "Why the latest travel caps look like an arbitrary restriction on Australians' right to come home". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  13. ↑ McAdam, Jane (20 January 2020). "Climate refugees cannot be forced back home". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  14. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam. "Offshore processing centres are no place for asylum seeker children". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  15. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam. "Manus Island: the end does not justify the means". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  16. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam. "FactCheck Q&A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  17. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam. "How do we deal with the prospect of increased climate migration?". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  18. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam; Church, John. "Rising seas will displace millions of people – and Australia must be ready". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  19. ↑ AO, Jane McAdam; Jefferies, Regina. "Who's being allowed to leave Australia during COVID? FOI data show it is murky and arbitrary". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  20. ↑ "Jane McAdam". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  21. ↑ Goodwin-Gill, Guy S.; McAdam, Jane (2021). The Refugee in International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-880856-5.
  22. ↑ "Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs". www.newsouthbooks.com.au. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  23. ↑ McAdam, Jane (23 February 2012). Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law. OUP Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-958708-7.
  24. ↑ Mcadam, Jane (1 March 2011). "Swimming against the Tide: Why a Climate Change Displacement Treaty is Not the Answer". International Journal of Refugee Law. 23 (1): 2–27. doi:10.1093/ijrl/eeq045. ISSN   0953-8186.
  25. ↑ "2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Jane McAdam". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  26. ↑ "Jane McAdam". www.rsc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  27. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Professor Jane McAdam AO FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
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