Publications

Michelle Foster. , The Evidence Act and Pre-trial Procedures: the Implications of R v Young (1999) Criminal Law News , 6(6) 56-60

Michelle Foster. , Sentencing for Multiple Offences: The Impact of Pearce v R on Sentencing in NSW (1999) Criminal Law News , 6(4) 37-40

Michelle Foster. , Causation in context: Interpreting the nexus clause in the refugee convention (2002) Michigan Journal of International Law , 23 265-340

J.C. Hathaway and M. Foster. , Internal protection/relocation/flight alternative as an aspect of refugee status determination (2003) Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection eds. E. Feller, V. Turk, F. Nicholson Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , pp. 357-471

R. Haines, J. Hathaway and M. Foster. , Claims to Refugee Status Based on Voluntary but Protected Actions (2003) International Journal of Refugee Law , 15 430-443

J. Hathaway and M. Foster. , Membership of a Particular Social Group (2003) International Journal of Refugee Law , 15 477-491

J. Hathaway and M. Foster. , The Causal Connection ("Nexus") to a Convention Ground (2003) International Journal of Refugee Law , 15 461-476

P. Mathew, J. Hathaway and M. Foster. , The Role of State Protection in Refugee Analysis (2003) International Journal of Refugee Law , 15 444-460

Kneebone, S. , Women Within the Refugee Construct: Exclusionary inclusion' in 'Policy and Practice - The Australian Experience (2005) International Journal of Refugee Law , 17(1) 7-42

F. Abbott, F. Breining-Kaufmann, C. Cottier, T. Foster, M and Fischer, T. (eds), (2006) International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor , xvi + 383 pp

C. Breining-Kaufmann and M. Foster. , Introduction (2006) International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues, in F. Abbott, C. Breining-Kaufmann, T. Cottier, M. Foster, T. Fischer (eds) University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor , pp 3-18

Michelle Foster. , Membership in the Australian Community: Singh v The Commonwealth and its Consequences for Australian Citizenship Law (2006) Federal Law Review , 34 161-183

Foster, M. , (2007) International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation Cambridge University Press , hardback xlvii + 387 pp , reprinted in paperback 2009

Michelle Foster. , Protection elsewhere: The legal implications of requiring refugees to seek protection in another state (2007) Michigan Journal of International Law , 28 223-286 , Reprinted in James C. Hathaway (ed), Human Rights and Refugee Law (Edward Elgar 2013)

Michelle Foster. , Responsibility sharing or shifting? "Safe" third countries and international law (2008) Refuge , 25 64-78

Anna Dorevitch and Michelle Foster. , Obstacles on the road to protection: Assessing the treatment of sex-trafficking victims under Australia's migration and refugee law (2008) The Melbourne Journal of International Law , 9 1-46

McSherry, B and Kneebone, S. , Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration: Moving Victims Across the Border of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights (2008) International Journal of Human Rights , 12(1) 67-87

Kneebone (ed), (2009) Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives Cambridge University Press United Kingdom

Michelle Foster. , Refugee Law (2009) I. Freckelton SC and H. Selby (eds), Appealing to the Future: Michael Kirby and His Legacy Thomson Reuters, Sydney , pp. 685-719

Michelle Foster. , "An Alien by the Barest of Threads": The Legality of the Deportation of Long-Term Residents from Australia (2009) Melbourne University Law Review , 33(2) 483-541

Michelle Foster. , Non-refoulement on the basis of Socio-Economic Deprivation: The Scope of Complementary Protection in International Human Rights Law (2009) Part II New Zealand Law Review , 257-310 , Reprinted in Mary Crock (ed), Refugees and Rights (Routledge 2015)

Kneebone, S. , The Refugee-Trafficking Nexus: Making Good (The) Connections (2010) Refugee Survey Quarterly , 29(1) 137-160

Kneebone, S and O'Sullivan, M. , Article 1 C (Definition of the Term 'Refugee'/Definition du Terme 'Refuie') (2011) A Zimmerman (ed), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol Oxford University Press, United Kingdom , 481-535

Michelle Foster and J. Pobjoy. , A failed case of legal exceptionalism? Refugee status determination in Australia's 'excised' territory (2011) International Journal of Refugee Law , 23 583-631

Cheryl Saunders and Michelle Foster. , Australia (2012) D. Halberstam, M. Reimann, J. Sanchez Cordero (ed), Federalismand Legal Unification: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems International Academy of Comparative Law , 66-76

Michelle Foster. , The Implications of the Failed 'Malaysian Solution': The Australian High Court and Refugee Responsibility Sharing at International Law (2012) The Melbourne Journal of International Law , 13 395-423

Michelle Foster and Jonathan Klaaren. , Asylum and Refugees (2013) Mark Tushnet, Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Saunders (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law Routledge , 415-425

Hathaway, J and Foster, M. , (2014) The Law of Refugee Status Cambridge University Press United Kingdom

Kneebone, S. Stevens, D and Baldassar, L. (eds), (2014) Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities Routledge United Kingdom

Michelle Foster. , Why We Are Not There Yet: The Particular Challenge of "Particular Social Group" (2014) Efrat Arbel, Catherine Dauvergne, and Jenni Millbank (eds), Gender Equality in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre Routledge , 17-45

Cheryl Saunders and Michelle Foster. , The Australian Federation: A Story of the Centralization of Power (2014) D. Halberstam and M. Reimann (eds), Federalism and Legal Unification: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems Springer , 87-102

Kneebone, S. , Transnational Labour Migrants: Whose Responsibility? (2014) K Rubenstein, K Nolan, M Nolan and F Jenkins (eds),�Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom , 426-450

Kneebone, S. , Human Trafficking and Refugee Women (2014) E Arbel, C Dauvergne and J Millbank (eds),�Gender Equality in Refugee Law: Are We There Yet? Routledge, United Kingdom , 197-219

Kneebone, S. , ASEAN and the Conceptualisation of Refugee Protection (2014) A Abass and F Ippolito (eds),�Regional Approaches to the Protection of Asylum Seekers: An International Legal Perspective Ashgate, United Kingdom , 295-323

McGee, Thomas. , The Stateless Kurds of Syria: Ethnic Identity and National I.D. (2014) Tilburg Law Review , 19 171-181

Kneebone, S. , The Bali Process and Global Refugee Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region (2014) Journal of Refugee Studies , 27(4) 596-618

Rijken, C. van Waas, L. Gramatikov, M and Brennan, D , (2015) The Nexus between Statelessness and Human Trafficking: The example of Thailand Wolf Legal Publishers

Silverstein, J. , (2015) Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century New York: Berghahn Books

Cathryn Costello and Michelle Foster. , Non-refoulement as Custom and Jus Cogens? Putting the Prohibition to the Test (2016) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2015: Jus Cogens: Quo Vadis? Springer

Michelle Foster. , Economic Migrant or Person in Need of Protection? Socio-Economic Rights and Persecution in International Refugee Law (2016) Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory Brill

Jordana Silverstein. , "I am responsible": Histories of the Intersection of the Guardianship of Unaccompanied Child Refugees and the Australian Border (2016) Cultural Studies Review , 22, no. 2: 65-89

Foster, M, McAdam, J and Wadley, D. , Part One: the Protection of Statelessness Persons in Australian law - The Rationale for a Statelessness Determination Procedure (2016) Melbourne University Law Review , 40 456-505

Foster, M, McAdam, J and Wadley, D. , Part Two: The Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness in Australia - An Ongoing Challenge (2016) Melbourne University Law Review , 40 401-455

Foster, M and Lambert, H. , Statelessness as a Human Rights Issue: A Concept Whose Time Has Come (2016) International Journal of Refugee Law , 28(4) 564-584

Christoph Sperfeldt. , A Boat Without Anchors: Cambodia's Vietnamese Minority Still Looking for its Place in Society (2016) Asia Pacific Human Rights Information Centre Blog

Kneebone, S (ed), (2017) Comparative Regional Protection Frameworks for Refugees Routledge United Kindgom

Jordana Silverstein. , "The beneficent and legal godfather": A History of the Guardianship of Unaccompanied Immigrant and Refugee Children, 1946-1975 (2017) History of the Family , 22, no. 4: 446-465

Christoph Sperfeldt. , Cambodia (2018) Olivier Vonk (ed),�Nationality Law in the Eastern Hemisphere: Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in Asian Perspective Wolf Legal Publishers , 91-115

Michelle Foster. , The Separation of Judicial Power (2018) Saunders, C. & Stone, A. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of The Australian Constitution Oxford University Press United Kingdom , pp. 672-695

Albarazi, Z, Brennan, D and van Waas, L. , Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws: Human Rights Pathways to Gender Neutrality (2018) Niamh Reilly (ed) International Human Rights of Women Springer

Foster, M and Lambert, H , (2019) International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons Oxford University Press United Kingdom

Adrienne Anderson, Michelle Foster, Hèlëne Lambert, & Jane McAdam. , Imminence in Refugee and Human Rights Law: A Misplaced Notion for International Protection (2019) International and Comparative Law Quarterly , vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 111-140

Jordana Silverstein. , "Because we all love your country": Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children, Australian Policy-makers, and the Building of National Sentiment (2019) Australian Journal of Politics and History , 65, no.4 532-548

Jordana Silverstein. , "I'm skeptical of foreigners": Making space for discomfort in an oral history interview (2019) Oral History Australia , no. 41 12-21

Brennan, D. , Statelessness and the Feminist Toolbox: Another Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution? (2019) Tilburg Law Review , 24(2)

McGee, Thomas. , Experiences of Stateless Kurds and Palestinian Refugees from Syria Seeking Protection in Europe From Syria to Europe (2019) Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) & European Statelessness Network (ENS) & ASKV Refugee Support

Thomas McGee. , Stateless Syrians in Europe: Navigating the "Knowledge Gap" (2019) ENS Blog

Christoph Sperfeldt. , A crisis of citizenship in India is risking mass statelessness (2019) Pursuit

Sara Dehm and Jordana Silverstein. , Film as an Anti-Asylum Technique: International Law, Borders and the Gendering of Refugee Subjectivities (2020) Griffith Law Review , 29, no. 3: 425-450

Jordana Silverstein. , Refugee children, boats, and drownings: A history of an Australian ?humanitarian (2020) History Australia , 17, no. 4: 728-742

McGee, Thomas. , Recognising Stateless Refugees (2020) Forced Migration Review , 45-47

McGee, Thomas. , Born of ISIS Genocide: Risk of Statelessness and Stigmatised Nationality Acquisition for Children of Yezidi Survivors (2020) Rowaq Arabi journal

McGee, Thomas. , "Rainbow Statelessness" - Between Sexual Citizenship and Legal Theory: Exploring the Statelessness-LGBTIQ+ Nexus (2020) Statelessness and Citizenship Review , 2(1)

Sperfeldt, Christoph. , Minorities and Statelessness: Social Exclusion and Citizenship in Cambodia (2020) International Journal on Minority and Group Rights , 27(1) 94-120

Michelle Foster and Kirsty Gover. , Determining Membership: Aboriginality and Alienage in the Australian High Court (2020) Public Law Review , 31 (2)

Adrienne Anderson, Michelle Foster, Hèlëne Lambert, & Jane McAdam. , A Well-founded Fear of Being Persecuted ... But When? (2020) Sydney Law Review� , 42(2) 155-180

McGee, Thomas and Albarazi, Zahra. , Eight years of Displacement: Syria's Statelessness still Unidentified (2020) Oxford�Monitor of Forced Migration , 8(2) 39-43

Brennan, D. , Feminist Foresight in Statelessness: Century-Old Citizenship Equality Campaigns (2020) Statelessness and Citizenship Review , 2(1)

Silverstein, Jordana. , Anna H�jkov�, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (2020) New York: Oxford University Press , p. 376 , Gender & History, no. 1 (March 2022): 305-307

McGee, Thomas. , Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf�by Noora Lori (2020) Statelessness and Citizenship Review , 2(2) 355-360

McGee, Thomas. , Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights Refuge�by Lindsey N. Kingston (2020) Canada's Journal on Refugees , 36)1) 109-111

McGee, Thomas. , We Can't Say We Didn't Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity by Sophie McNeill (2020) Australian Book Review

Brennan, Deirdre and McGee, Thomas , Critical Statelessness Studies Introduction: Taking a "Critical" Approach to Statelessness. (2020) Critical Statelessness Studies Blog

Brennan, Deirdre and McGee, Thomas , Risks of "Covidisation" in Statelessness Work? (2020) ENS Blog

Brennan, Deirdre. , 1930s Campaigns and the Black Uniform of Discrimination (2020) Equal Nationality Rights Blog

Thomas McGee. , The COVID-19 Crisis and New Agency for Stateless Bidoon in Kuwait (2020) LSE Middle East Centre Blog

McGee, Thomas and Albarazi, Zahra , Statelessness among Syria?s displaced: Still unidentified (2020) ENS Blog

Costello, C. Foster, M and McAdam, J. (eds), (2021) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law OUP Oxford , lxxviii+ 1258 pages

Silverstein, J and Stevens, R. (eds), (2021) Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance Canberra: ANU Press

Foster, Michelle and Roberts, Jade. , Manufacturing Foreigners: The law and politics of transforming citizens into migrants' (2021) Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration Edward Elgar Publishing

Silverstein, Jordana. , "His happy go lucky attitude is infectious": Australian Imaginings of Unaccompanied Child Refugees, 1970s-1980s (2021) Jordana Silverstein and Rachel Stevens (eds),�Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance Canberra: ANU Press , pp. 71-88

Sperfeldt, C and Razali, RM. , Statelessness in ASEAN: Causes and Responses to a Protracted Problem (2021) K Tan, D Cohen and A Nababan (eds), Human Rights and ASEAN: Indonesian and International Perspectives World Scientific , 183-210.

Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam. , Introducing a Scholarly Field (2021) C. Costello, M. Foster and J. McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law OUP

Adrienne Anderson and Michelle Foster. , A Feminist Appraisal of International Refugee Law (2021) C. Costello, M. Foster and J. McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law OUP

Michelle Foster and Anna Hood. , Refugee Regimes: Oceania (2021) C. Costello, M. Foster and J. McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law OUP

Brennan, D, Murray, N and Petrozziello A. , Multiply marginalized: Applying Intersectionality to Understand Lived Experiences of Statelessness in Europe (2021) T Bloom and L Kingston Global Governance and Statelessness Manchester University Press

Michelle Foster, Hannah Gordon, Hèlëne Lambert and Jane McAdam , "Time" in Refugee Status Determination in Australia and the United Kingdom: a Clear and Present Danger from Armed Conflict? (2021) International Journal of Refugee Law

Cathryn Costello and Michelle Foster , Race Discrimination Effaced at the International Court of Justice (2021) AJIL Unbound , 115, 339-344

Michelle Foster and Timnah Baker , Racial Discrimination in Nationality laws: A Doctrinal Blind Spot of International Law? (2021) Columbia Journal on Race and Law , 83-146

McGee, Thomas. , Citizenship stripping as alternative border control: Syrian counter-perspectives (2021) Routed Magazine

Foster, Michelle, Lambert, Helene & McAdam Jane. , Refugee Protection in the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond: The Capacity and Limits of International Law. (2021) UNSW Law Journal , Vol.44, No.1.

Sperfeldt, Christoph. , Legal identity in the sustainable development agenda: actors, perspectives and trends in an emerging field of research. (2021) International Journal of Human Rights

Sperfeldt, Christoph. , Legal Identity and Statelessness in Southeast Asia (2021) Asia Pacific Issues , 147

Jordana Silverstein. , "Best interests of the child", Australian refugee policy, and the (im)possibilities of international solidarity (2021) Human Rights Review , 22, no. 4: 389-405

Michelle Foster, Lambert, Hèlëne & McAdam, Jane. , Refugee Protection in the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond: the Capacity and Limits of International Law? (2021) UNSW Law Journal , 44(1)�104-125

Silverstein, Jordana. , Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman, Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia (2021) Sydney: NewSouth Publishing , Australian Historical Studies 53, no. 2 (2022): 353-354

Thomas McGee. , Libya: Stateless Tuareg demand rights and inclusion ahead of elections (2021) Middle East Eye

McGee, Thomas and Bahram, Haqqi. , (in French) 'Kurdes syriens : apr�s l�exil, l�apatridie en Europe (2021) Plein Droit

McGee, Thomas and Bahram, Haqqi. , Navigating intersecting statelessness: Syrian Kurds in Europe. (2021) ENS Blog

Brennan, Deirdre. , Caring about Statelessness: Unpacking the "End Statelessness" Campaigns through a Feminist Ethics of Care (2021) Critical Statelessness Studies Blog

Foster, M. , Displacement and Social and Economic Rights (2022) Malcolm Langford and Katharine Young, Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights OUP

Christoph Sperfeldt. , The Perpetual Foreigner: Statelessness among the Vietnamese Minority in Cambodia (2022) Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Thomas McGee & Zahra Albarazi , Addressing statelessness in the MENA region: a new network for mobilisation (2023) Forced Migration Review - Mobilising for rights in the MENA region

Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mari�as, Antje Missbach and Max Walden (eds), (2024) Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia, Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty Berghahn Books

Susan Kneebone, Max Walden, Reyvi Mari�as and Antje Missbach , Introduction: �Humanitarian Responses� to Refugees in Southeast Asia (2024) Susan Kneebone et al (eds),�Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia� Berghahn Books , 1

Bongkot Napaumporn and Susan Kneebone , Asylum and Refugee Protection in Thailand�s History: Between Sovereignty and Humanitarianism (2024) Susan Kneebone et al (eds),�Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia� Berghahn Books , 55

Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mari�as and Max Walden , Conclusion: Sovereignty, Responsibility and Human Rights (2024) Susan Kneebone et al (eds),�Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia� Berghahn Books , 297

Jade Roberts , Statelessness before the ICJ: The Gambia v Myanmar (Case Note) (2024) Statelessness & Citizenship Review , 5(2), 226

Katie Robertson , The Stateless Legal Clinic: Innovative Models for Addressing Unmet Legal Need in Australia through Clinical Legal Education (2024) International Journal of Clinical Legal Education , 31(1), 5-43

Sumedha Choudhury , On the 75th Anniversary: Looking back at the Minority Question in the Making of the UDHR (2024) Third World Approaches to International Law Review

Andrea Immanuel , The right to nationality of the Saharawis and their legal identity documents (2024) Citizenship Studies

Marika Sosnowski and Bart Klem , Legal identity in a looking-glass world: documenting citizens of aspirant states (2024) Citizenship Studies

Thomas McGee , Implications of Legal Identity Documentation issues by the Kurdish-led Self Administration in Northern Syria: Competition and Compromise with the Central State (2024) Citizenship Studies

Jordana Silverstein , Review of Anthea Vogl, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (2024) Crime, Media, Culture�

Marika Sosnowski and Ayman Makarem (with graphic design by Hisham Rifai and photography by Darrian Traynor) , Caught In Between � Legal Identity Documents Issued by the Syrian Opposition (2024) Aljumhuriya

Katie Robertson , Centring the Lived Experience of Stateless People in Legal Education (2024) Critical Statelessness Studies Blog

Christoph Sperfeldt, Bophal Keat, Chanrith Ang & Joseph Maye , Mapping Statelessness in Cambodia: A Review of the Current Context and Conditions (2024) Women Peace Makers/Nationality For All

Katie Robertson , Brian and Dorothy Wilson Churchill Fellowship to investigate best practice models for providing legal education and aid to stateless children (2024) Churchill Trust

Foster, Michelle, Jaclyn Neo, and Christoph Sperfeldt (eds), Statelessness in Asia: Causes, Conditions, and Challenges in Context (2025) Statelessness in Asia

Kneebone, Susan , Gender, Nationality and Statelessness: Marriage Migration to East Asia (2025) Statelessness in Asia

Sperfeldt, Christoph , Statelessness, genocide and mass deportations on trial: observations from the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia (2024) Griffith Law Review

Lambert, Hèlëne, Thomas Gammelthoft-Hansen and Daniel Ghezelbash Special Issue Guest Eds, Special Issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies on �What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda (2024) Journal of Refugee Studies

Foster, Michelle, Jaclyn Neo, and Christoph Sperfeldt (eds), (2025) Statelessness in Asia