By Professor Daniel Ghezelbash

Books

Crock M; Bones K; Ghezelbash D; Hollands J; Kenny MA, 2020, Children and Young People in Asylum and Refugee Processes Towards Best Practice

Ghezelbash D, 2018, Refuge lost: Asylum law in an interdependent world, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108349031

Book Chapters

Dorostkar K; Ghezelbash D; Bridle M, 2026, 'About Time: data-driven approaches to addressing delays and backlogs in asylum procedures', in A Research Agenda for Refugee Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 118 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781035342464.00016

Ghezelbash D, 2025, 'International refugee law and constitutional interpretation', in Choudhry S; O'Regan C; Bernal-Pulido C (ed.), Constitutional Interpretation, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 448 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800371743.00033

Ghezelbash D; Shachar A, 2025, 'How and Why “Ideas Travel” in Migration Law and Policy', in Cope K; Burch Elias S; Goldenziel J (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Ghezelbash D; Kinchin N, 2025, 'Automated Decision-Making in Australia's Migration System: Risks and Opportunities', in Automation in Governance Theory Practice and Problems, pp. 195 - 220

Ghezelbash D, 2025, 'Refugee Status Determination Procedure', in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 455 - 460, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802204155.00084

Ghezelbash D; Kinchin N, 2025, 'Automated Decision-Making in Australia’s Migration System', in Automation in Governance, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 195 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509984961.ch-010

Ghezelbash D, 2024, 'Refugee Status Determination', in Chetail V (ed.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law

Ghezelbash D, 2022, 'Australia’s boat push-back policy: Hyper-legalism and obfuscation in action', in Refugee Externalisation Policies Responsibility Legitimacy and Accountability, pp. 69 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003167273-6

Crock M; Ghezelbash D; Reich S; Stevens R, 2022, 'Selective Generosity: Migration Law and Policy in Australia', in Law and Migration in a Changing World, Springer Nature, pp. 99 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99508-3_2

Ghezelbash D, 2021, 'Fast-track, accelerated, and expedited asylum procedures as a tool of exclusion', in Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 248 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781789902266.00029

Ghezelbash D, 2018, 'The rise and rise of mandatory immigration detention', in Protecting Migrant Children in Search of Best Practice, pp. 420 - 436

Crock M; Ghezelbash D, 2016, 'Secret immigration business: Policy transfers and the tyranny of deterrence theory', in Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law Theory and Policy, pp. 617 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315613239

Ghezelbash D, 2015, 'Lessons in exclusion: Interdiction and extraterritorial processing of asylum seekers in the United States and Australia', in Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law Current Protection Challenges, pp. 90 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004265585_006

Crock M, 2015, 'Law as an Agent of Social Transformation: Trends in the Legal Regulation of Migration', in Migration Diasporas and Citizenship, pp. 269 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137474957_17

Ghezelbash D, 2015, 'Lessons in Exclusion: Interdiction and Extraterritorial Processing of Asylum Seekers in the United States and Australia', in International Refugee Law Series, pp. 90 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004265585_006

Ghezelbash D; Crock M, 2015, 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind?: The Myths and Realities of Mandatory Immigration Detention', in Global Migration Old Assumptions New Dynamics Volume 1 3, pp. 23 - 45

Crock M; Ghezelbash D, 2013, 'Secret immigration business: Policy transfers and the tyranny of deterrence theory', in Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law Theory and Policy, pp. 617 - 637

Journal articles

Cantor D; Ghezelbash D; Storey H; Tan NF; Abdelhady R; Cernicova-Dragomir T-M; Chotinukul J; Gammeltoft-Hansen T; Skribeland ÖG; Janmyr M; Martinez SML; Moraru M; Reyhani A-N; Vedsted-Hansen J, 2026, 'International Law and the Procedural Standards for Determining Asylum Claims', International Journal of Refugee Law, pp. eeag034, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeag034

Ghezelbash D; Crock M; Bridle M; Dorostkar K, 2026, 'Sensible Tactics or Missed Opportunity? Evaluating the Exceptional Treatment of Migration and Refugee Decisions in the Administrative Review Tribunal Act', Federal Law Review, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/fed.2025.10014

Moon D; Fabig H; Newhouse G; Ghezelbash D, 2025, 'Teaching Legal Design: Lessons from Five Years of Student-Led Innovation in Tech4Justice', Legal Design Journal, 2, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.82305/yeff-by73

Ghezelbash D; Bridle M, 2025, 'Fairness and Efficiency in the Review of Asylum Decisions: Data-Driven Insights and Lessons From Australia’s Failed Fast Track Process', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 44, pp. 252 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdaf002

Ghezelbash D; Burridge A; Kashyap T, 2025, 'Accelerated Asylum Procedures: Comparing International Practice', ASYL, https://asyl.recht.ch/de/artikel/02asyl0125abh/accelerated-asylum-procedures-comparing-international-practice

Ghezelbash D; Dorostkar K, 2024, 'Understanding the politics of refugee law and policy making: Interdisciplinary and empirical approaches', Journal of Refugee Studies, 37, pp. 898 - 914, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead039

Gammeltoft-Hansen T; Ghezelbash D, 2024, 'What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda', Journal of Refugee Studies, 37, pp. 837 - 850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae068

Ghezelbash D; Bridle M; Dorostkar K; Kwan T-KJ, 2024, 'Decoding Justice: A Data-driven Approach to Evaluating and Improving the Administrative Review of Refugee Cases in Australia', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, 31

Viennet C; Ghezelbash D; Hinterberger KF; Urscheler LH, 2023, 'Editorial', International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 7, pp. 107 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2023.129795

Carole V; Ghezelbash D; Hinterberger KF; Heckendorn Urscherler L, 2023, 'Editorial - Special Issue on Comparative Migration Law: Methods, Debates and New Frontiers', International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 7, pp. 107 - 113, https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijmbs&year=2023&vol=7&issue=2

Ghezelbash D, 2023, 'Legal transfers of migration law: the case for an interdisciplinary approach', International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 7, pp. 182 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2023.128602

Ghezelbash D; Dorostkar K; Walsh S, 2022, 'A DATA DRIVEN APPROACH TO EVALUATING AND IMPROVING JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE JUDICIAL REVIEW OF REFUGEE CASES IN AUSTRALIA', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 45, pp. 1085 - 1123

Ghezelbash D, 2022, 'Technology and countersurveillance: holding governments accountable for refugee externalization policies', Globalizations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2051274

Ghezelbash D; Dorostkar K; Walsh S, 2022, 'A Data Driven Approach to Evaluating and Improving Judicial Decision-Making: Statistical Analysis of the Judicial Review of Refugee Cases in Australia', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.53637/tcnq8226

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

Dastyari A; Ghezelbash D, 2021, 'Asylum at sea: The legality of shipboard refugee status determination procedures', International Journal of Refugee Law, 32, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/IJRL/EEZ046

Ghezelbash D; Feith Tan N, 2020, 'The End of the Right to Seek Asylum? COVID-19 and the Future of Refugee Protection', International Journal of Refugee Law, 32, pp. 668 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeab002

Ghezelbash D, 2020, 'Hyper-Legalism and Obfuscation: How States Evade Their International Obligations towards Refugees', American Journal of Comparative Law, 68, pp. 479 - 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaa019

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

Newhouse G; Ghezelbash D; Whittaker A, 2020, 'The Experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participants in Australia’s Coronial Inquest System: Reflections from the Front Line', International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy, 9, pp. 76 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/IJCJSD.1691

Moreno-Lax V; Ghezelbash D; Klein N, 2019, 'Between life, security and rights: Framing the interdiction of 'boat migrants' in the central mediterranean and Australia', Leiden Journal of International Law, 32, pp. 715 - 740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0922156519000451

Ghezelbash D; Moreno-Lax V; Klein N; Opeskin B, 2018, 'Securitization of Search and Rescue at Sea: The Response to Boat Migration in the Mediterranean and Offshore Australia', International & Comparative Law Quarterly, 67, pp. 315 - 351, https://browzine.com/libraries/757/journals/19181/issues/244929442?showArticleInContext=doi:10.1017%2FS0020589317000562

Ghezelbash D, 2017, 'LEGAL TRANSFERS of RESTRICTIVE IMMIGRATION LAWS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 66, pp. 235 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589316000373

Opeskin B; Ghezelbash D, 2016, 'Australian Refugee Policy and its Impacts on Pacific Island Countries', The Journal of Pacific Studies, 36, pp. 73 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.33318/jpacs.2016.36(1)-5

Ghezelbash D, 2014, 'Forces of diffusion: what drives the transfer of immigration policy and law across jurisdictions?', International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 1, pp. 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2014.066306

Crock M; Ghezelbash D, 2011, 'Due process and rule of law as human rights: The High Court and the "offshore" processing of asylum seekers', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, 18

Crock M; Ghezelbash D, 2010, 'Do loose lips bring ships? The role of policy, politics and human rights in managing unauthorised boat arrivals', Griffith Law Review, 19, pp. 238 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2010.10854676

Conference Proceedings (Editor of)

Ghezelbash D; Viennet C; Hinterberger KF; Heckendorn Urscheler L, (eds.), 2019, 'Special Issue on: Comparative Migration Law: Methods, Debates and New Frontiers', International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. 7, presented at Comparative Migration Law: Methods, Debates and New Frontiers, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland, 04 December 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2023.129795

Reports

Gleeson M; McAdam J; Ghezelbash D; Higgins C; Jefferies R, 2026, Submission to the Attorney General's Department on Australia's draft Seventh Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/submissions/2026-06-AG-australia-draft-seventh-periodic-report-ICCPR.pdf

Ghezelbash D; Molnar P, 2025, From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/2025-09-technology-in-alternatives-to-detention.pdf

Wodak S; Erdene-Ochir M; Fung B; Ghezelbash D; Martin L; Voon F; Ghezelbash D, 2025, Countering misinformation about refugees and migrants: An evidence-based framework, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/resource/2025-03-countering-misinformation-refugees.pdf

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