Progress for All with Law & Justice will highlight the work of our researchers, Centres and Institutes on the challenges outlined in the Law & Justice 2030 Strategy. This is a great opportunity for the UNSW community to learn more about the impact of our work and about opportunities to collaborate.
The series will have six sessions over two years, each aligned with the challenges in the Law & Justice 2030 Strategy.
This first event will explore the challenge of Human Rights and Displacement with Professor Daniel Ghezelbash, Director of the Kaldor Centre of International Refugee Law and Sarah Dale, Centre Director and Principal Solicitor, at the UNSW Law & Justice affiliated centre, the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS). In a timely conversation on refugee rights and policy in Australia in the week leading up to World Refugee Day, our speakers will unpack:
Sarah Dale is RACS’s Centre Director and Principal Solicitor.
Sarah joined RACS in 2013, following several years helping refugees and people seeking asylum with visa cancellation and civil law issues. As RACS’s first Child Specialist Solicitor, she represented unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Australia, and children detained on Christmas Island and Nauru.
Sarah has contributed her expertise to the UNHCR Expert Roundtable on family reunification in Brussels and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders at York University. She has received various accolades for her refugee rights work, including the Law Society of NSW’s Community Service Award (2023) and Lawyers Weekly’s Migration Partner of the Year (2018).
Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) is a nonprofit providing essential legal support and advocacy for people who have fled persecution to find safety in Australia. We help refugees, people seeking asylum, stateless individuals and those who are displaced. Our vision is of justice and dignity for and with refugees and since 1987, we've helped more than 70,000 people. RACS is proud to be an affiliated centre of UNSW Law & Justice and hosts interns and volunteers from the university.
Daniel Ghezelbash is a Professor and the Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney. He is an internationally recognised scholar of international and comparative refugee and migration law, legal technology and access to justice. His research transcends traditional disciplinary barriers, drawing on law, computing, political science, international relations, behavioural psychology and data science. He is a board member of the Refugee Advice & Casework Service, Wallumatta Legal, and the Access to Justice and Technology Network and a Special Counsel at the National Justice Project. He is also the co-founder and academic lead of the Hear Me Out complaints platform, one of the world’s first direct-to-consumer GenAI-powered legal self-help tools.
The Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Law & Justice is the world's leading research centre dedicated to the study of international refugee law. It undertakes rigorous research on the most pressing displacement issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and around the world. We contribute to public policy by promoting legal, sustainable and humane solutions to forced migration. Through outstanding research and engagement, the Kaldor Centre has become recognised as an intellectual powerhouse with global impact.
Daniel Joyce is Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law & Justice. He is an Associate Professor at UNSW Law & Justice and specialising in international law, media law and human rights. Daniel is an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a Member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law where he leads a project on freedom of expression, social media and online speech. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Human Rights, the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International Law, and the Editorial Review Board of the Queen Mary Human Rights Law Review.
Professor Andrew Lynch is Dean at UNSW Law & Justice. He has previously served as Head of School and Deputy Dean of the Law School. He teaches and researches in the field of Australian constitutional law. His research concentrates on the topics of federalism, judicial dissent, judicial appointments and education, and legal responses to terrorism.
