By Dr Regina Marie Jefferies

Books

Jefferies RM; Chan RL, 2018, Jefferies and Chan's Immigration Simulations: Bridge to Practice, West Academic Publishing, https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1640206035

Book Chapters

Jefferies R, 2025, 'Transnational Legal Process, Cognition, and Context', in van Aaken A; Hirsch M (ed.), International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn, Oxford University Press, pp. 154 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198909293.003.0008

Journal articles

Jefferies R; McAdam J, 2024, 'Locked Down and Locked Out', The Australian Year Book of International Law Online, 42, pp. 39 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660229-04201030

Jefferies R; McAdam J, 2024, 'Locked Down and Locked Out: Australia’s COVID-19 Restrictions on Internal Movement', Australian Year Book of International Law, 42, pp. 39 - 86

Jefferies R; Barratt T; Huang C; Bashford A, 2023, 'Regulating Movement in Pandemic Times', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 20, pp. 633 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10292-1

Jefferies R; McAdam J, 2023, 'Locked In: Australia’s COVID-19 Border Closures and the Right to Leave', Australian Year Book of International Law, 41, pp. 185 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660229-04101002

Wood T; Barbour B; Hammerschmid A; Ioffe Y; Jefferies R, 2023, 'CASE LAW SUMMARIES', International Journal of Refugee Law, 35, pp. 233 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eead021

Jefferies R; McAdam J; Pillai S, 2022, 'Can we still call Australia home? The right to return and the legality of Australia’s COVID-19 travel restrictions', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 27, pp. 211 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2021.1996529

Gleeson M; Wood T; Barbour B; Jeffries R; Moodley R, 2022, 'Case Law Summaries', International Journal of Refugee Law, 34, pp. 82 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeac026

Wood T; Barbour B; Gleeson M; Jefferies R; Moodley R, 2021, 'Kwatra v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCA 58 (4 February 2021)', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW, 33, pp. 497 - 505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeab048

Jefferies R; Ghezelbash D; Hirsch A, 2021, 'ASSESSING REFUGEE PROTECTION CLAIMS AT AUSTRALIAN AIRPORTS: THE GAP BETWEEN LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE', Melbourne University Law Review, 44, pp. 162 - 211

Jefferies R, 2021, 'Bringing externalization home: the International Civil Aviation Organization and ‘entry screening’ in Australia', Globalizations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1989152

Golder B; Hush A; Jefferies R; Johns F; Nolan J, 2021, 'Foreword', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 27, pp. 399 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2022.2039056

Gleeson M; Wood T; Barbour B; Jefferies R; Moodley R, 2021, 'Case Law Summaries', International Journal of Refugee Law, 33, pp. 671 - 681

Barbour B; Gleeson M; Jefferies R; Moodley R, 2020, 'BFH16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2020] FCAFC 54 (31 March 2020)', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW, 32, pp. 507 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeaa026

Jefferies R; Ghezelbash D; Hirsch A, 2020, 'Assessing Refugee Protection Claims at Australian Airports: The Gap Between Law, Policy, and Practice', SSRN Electronic Journal, 44, pp. 162 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3746085

Jefferies R, 2019, 'Data Quality and the Law of Refugee Protection in Australia', Court of Conscience, 13, pp. 63 - 63

Jefferies R, 2019, 'Data Quality and the Law of Refugee Protection in Australia', Court of Conscience, pp. 63 - 67, http://www.unswlawsoc.org/publications/court-of-conscience

Jefferies R, 2019, 'Research Access and Adaptation in the Securitised Field of Australian Refugee and Asylum Law', Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 2019, pp. 49 - 53, https://joxcsls.com/publications/vol-2019/issue-1/research-access-and-adaptation-in-the-securitised-field-of-australian-refugee-and-asylum-law/#_ftn1

Jefferies RM, 2012, 'One of These Things is Not Like the Other: An Analysis of Marriage Under the Immigration and Nationality Act', Law Journal for Social Justice, https://ljsj.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/jefferiesfall2012ljsj.pdf

Jefferies RM, 2006, 'The Supreme Court of Arizona: Its 2004-2005 Decisions', Arizona State Law Journal

Jefferies RM, 2005, 'The Equitable Application of International Law: Revised Principles for a Solution to the Maasai Land Dispute', Arizona State Law Journal

Conference Presentations

Jefferies R, 2021, 'Street-level Bureaucrats in a Transnational Legal Process: Using Social Network Analysis to Visualise “Hidden” Decisions in Australian Asylum Law', presented at Osgoode GLSA Graduate Student Conference 2020-2021, 19 February 2021

Jefferies R, 2020, 'Ethics around researching Forced Migration', presented at Research Methods Workshop, Forced Migration Research Network and Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney, 27 November 2020

Jefferies R; Crisp J; FitzGerald D; Richard AC, 2020, 'Immigration, Asylum, and National Security: A Comparative Perspective', presented at 2020 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium, Miller Center, University of Virginia, 26 October 2020, https://millercenter.org/miller-center-presents/immigration-asylum-and-national-security-comparative-perspective

Jefferies R, 2020, 'Habitus and Transnational Legal Process in Australian Asylum Law', presented at Law and Society Association Annual Conference, 28 May 2020

Jefferies R, 2019, 'Street-level Bureaucrats, Discretion and Data: Pre-Screening Protection Claims at the Border', presented at Kaldor Centre Annual Conference 2019, 26 November 2019

Jefferies RM, 2017, 'The Case for Judicial Enforcement of the Fundamental Obligation of Non-Refoulement in the United States', presented at International Meeting on Law and Society, Mexico City, Mexico, 20 June 2017 - 23 June 2017

Reports

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2024, Ensuring Protection in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Framework for Australia, Policy Brief 15, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/2024-09-policy-brief-15-emergency-protection.pdf

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2023, Submission to the COVID-19 Response Inquiry

Jefferies R; Hager K, 2023, Learning from the Past: Governing Transboundary Nooksack River Flooding, 18, https://cedar.wwu.edu/bpri_publications/133

Jefferies R; Ghezelbash D; Hirsch A, 2020, Assessing Protection Claims at Airports: Developing procedures to meet international and domestic obligations, The Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27960, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/policy-brief-9-airports

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Jefferies R; Martin L, 2020, Australia's airport asylum process explained, Published: 15 September 2020, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG62PR6prYs

Media

McAdam J; Jefferies R; Mulder T, 2025, Australian Citizens in Iran and Israel Are Desperate to Leave. Is the Government Required to Help?, https://theconversation.com/australian-citizens-in-iran-and-israel-are-desperate-to-leave-is-the-government-required-to-help-259272

Jefferies R; McAdam J, 2024, An Australian Framework for Ensuring Protection in Humanitarian Emergencies, https://www.asyluminsight.com/australian-framework-for-ensuring-protection-in-humanitarian-emergencies

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2024, The Pressing Case for a New Emergency Visa to Help People Fleeing Gaza and Other Conflicts, https://theconversation.com/the-pressing-case-for-a-new-emergency-visa-to-help-people-fleeing-gaza-and-other-conflicts-238877

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2024, Dutton, Gaza and Why We Need an Emergency Protection Framework, https://johnmenadue.com/dutton-gaza-and-why-we-need-an-emergency-protection-framework/

Jefferies R, 2022, Accessing Airport Asylum Procedures Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, https://ilareporter.org.au/2022/02/accessing-airport-asylum-procedures-before-and-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

McAdam J; Bashford A; Jefferies R, 2021, Will NSW’s Opening Up to International Travel Lead to Internal Borders Closing Down?, https://johnmenadue.com/will-nsws-opening-up-to-international-travel-lead-to-internal-borders-closing-down/

McAdam J; Jefferies R; Hicks L, 2021, The Federal Government Just Made It Even Harder for Australians Overseas to Come Home. Is This Legal? Or Reasonable?, https://theconversation.com/the-federal-government-just-made-it-even-harder-for-australians-overseas-to-come-home-is-this-legal-or-reasonable-165744

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2021, Hard to See the Reasoning Behind New Rules for Australian Expats, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hard-to-see-the-reasoning-behind-new-rules-for-australian-expats-20210808-p58gwk.html

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2021, Who’s Being Allowed to Leave Australia during COVID? FOI Data Show It Is Murky and Arbitrary, https://theconversation.com/whos-being-allowed-to-leave-australia-during-covid-foi-data-show-it-is-murky-and-arbitrary-163725

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2021, Bring Them Home: Both the Law and Moral Duty Demand We Don’t Leave Australians Stranded in India, https://www.smh.com.au/national/bring-them-home-both-the-law-and-moral-duty-demand-we-don-t-leave-australians-stranded-in-india-20210428-p57n5e.html

Ghezelbash D; Hirsch A; Jefferies R, 2020, With our borders shut, this is the ideal time to overhaul our asylum seeker policies, https://theconversation.com/with-our-borders-shut-this-is-the-ideal-time-to-overhaul-our-asylum-seeker-policies-146016?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

Jefferies R, 2019, US Supreme court has a duty to stop Trump’s travel ban, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/us-supreme-court-has-duty-stop-trump-travel-ban

Jefferies R; Ghezelbash D, 2019, There’s no airport border “crisis”, only management failure of the Home Affairs department, https://theconversation.com/theres-no-airport-border-crisis-only-management-failure-of-the-home-affairs-department-125068

Jefferies R, 2019, “Offshore Processing” in Guatemala: A Deeper Look at the U.S. Asylum Deal, https://www.justsecurity.org/65967/offshore-processing-in-guatemala-a-deeper-look-at-the-u-s-asylum-deal/

Hirsch A; Ghezelbash D; Jefferies R, 2019, We don’t know how many asylum seekers are turned away at Australian airports, https://theconversation.com/we-dont-know-how-many-asylum-seekers-are-turned-away-at-australian-airports-111344

Jefferies R, 2018, Tragedy of Errors: The Solicitor General, the Supreme Court and the Truth, https://www.justsecurity.org/56718/tragedy-errors-solicitor-general-supreme-court-truth/

Preprints

Jefferies R, 2021, Transnational Legal Process: An Evolving Theory and Methodology, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3990378

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