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THE REFUGEES CONVENTION 50 YEARS ON

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

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Paris Aristotle AM is the Director of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, a position he has held since the organisations establishment in 1987. In 2002, Paris was appointed as a part-time Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission. Paris has also held several positions on government advisory bodies in the settlement and human services fields. He currently holds positions on the federal governments Refugee Resettlement Advisory Council and the Immigration Detention Advisory Group. Paris has been a member of a number of official delegations to the UNHCR Executive Committee and most recently, a member of the UNHCR Executive Committee on Resettlement and Integration. Paris was recently made a Member of the Order of Australia for his work with refugees, in particular survivors of torture.

Mary Crock is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney, teaching administrative law, refugee and migration law and other public law subjects. She is the author of Immigration and Refugee Law in Australia (Sydney, Federation Press, 1998); co-author with Ben Saul of Future Seekers: Refugees and the Law in Australia (Sydney, Federation Press, 2002); and editor of Protection or Punishment: The Detention of Asylum Seekers in Australia (Sydney, Federation Press, 1993). Mary acted as advisor to Senators involved in the inquiry into Australias Refugee and Humanitarian Program conducted by the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, which published a report in 2000 entitled, A Sanctuary Under Review. In 2000, she assisted in the preparation of a report by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission on the Immigration Detention Centre at Curtin, WA. As well as holding other positions she is Chair of the Nationality and Residence Committee, International Law Section, Law Council of Australia and trustee of the Australian Sanctuary and Settlement Fund.

Liz Curran lectures in Law at La Trobe University and operates the Clinical Legal Education Program in West Heidelberg. She is a former Executive Director of the Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace, and also served as the Co-chair of Justice for Asylum Seekers, providing written and oral commentary on public policy responses in the national media. She has also held a position as a Law Reform Officer and Spokesperson on behalf of the Federation of Community Legal Centres. Liz holds a Masters of Law from the University of Melbourne specialising in human rights.

Donald Galloway is Professor of Law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of Immigration Law (Canada, Irwin Law, 1997) in the Essentials of Canadian Law series, and various articles on immigration, citizenship and equality. In 1998 he took three years leave of absence to serve as a member of the refugee division of the Immigration and Refugee Board. In 1999 he coordinated efforts in Prince George, British Columbia, to provide hearings to 600 boat arrivals from China. Currently, he is the Director of the Akitsiraq Law School, a program operated by the University of Victoria, in Iqaluit, Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, which provides legal training and education to Inuit students.

Matthew J. Gibney is University Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugees Studies Centre, University of Oxford and Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has completed a MPhil and PhD at Cambridge University and has taught politics at Monash, Cambridge and Harvard Universities. His research interests focus upon the evolution and future of asylum in Western states, the ethical and political issues raised by deportation, and the relationship between forced migration and the modern state. His books include, Globalizing Rights (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2002) and The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Responses to Refugees, which will be published by Cambridge University in 2003. Other recent publications include: Between Control and Humanitarianism: Temporary Protection in Contemporary Europe, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (Spring 2000) and Liberal Democratic States and Responsibilities to Refugees, American Political Science Review (March 1999).

Jose Alvin C Gonzaga is currently a Legal Officer with the UNHCR, Canberra, Australia. Prior to this he has held numerous positions in the UNHCR, including Legal Consultant in the Philippines (1990) and Indonesia (199193), and has been involved in refugee status determination. In 1993, he was posted as a Field/Protection Officer in Tuzla and Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between 1998 and 2000 he was sent on missions to Thailand, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and East Timor, assisting projects such as the Emergency Evacuation Program of the Kosovar Albanian refugees and the supervision of East Timorese displaced persons until after the popular consultation.

Rodger Haines QC was one of the three original appointees to the New Zealand Refugee Status Appeals Authority when it was set up in 1991. He currently serves as Deputy Chairperson and has written many of its principal decisions. Since 1993 he has lectured in immigration and refugee law at the Faculty of Law, Auckland University. Other teaching appointments include co-teaching a paper in comparative asylum law with Professor James C Hathaway at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor in the fall term, 2000.

Michael Head is Coordinator of the Community Law Program at the University of Western Sydney where he also teaches immigration and refugee law. He writes for the World Socialist Web Site on international refugee issues. He has published articles on democratic rights, global citizenship and legislation passed to provide Safe Haven visas for Kosovar and Timor refugees.

Robert Illingworth is presently Assistant Secretary to the Onshore Protection Branch of the Refugee and Humanitarian Division, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved with the development of policy relating to refugee issues and refugee status determinations. He was previously a policy advisor in the Prime Ministers Department dealing with immigration issues and has been involved with protection visa arrangements since their introduction in 1993.

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