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

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

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 Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, Springer International Publishing, 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

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 - 107, 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 - 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

Ghezelbash D; Hruschka C, 2024, A fair and fast asylum process for Australia: Lessons from Switzerland, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/2024-10-a-fair-fast-asylum-process-in-australia-lessons-from-switzerland.pdf

Ghezelbash D; Dorostkar K; Bridle M, 2024, Submission to the Inquiry into the Administrative Review Tribunal Bill 2023 (ART Bill) and the Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No.1) Bill 2023 (Consequential and Transitional Bill), https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=b68d6e82-e58f-42f6-8837-d2288a2caded&subId=752136

McAdam J; Ghezelbash D; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2023, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into Australia's human rights framework, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Submission_Inquiry_Australia_Human_Rights_Framework_June_2023.pdf

Ghezelbash D; Dorostkar K; Bridle M, 2023, Submission to the Attorney-General’s Department responding to the Administrative Review Reform: Issues Paper, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Submission_Administrative_Review_Reform.pdf

Gleeson M; Ghezelbash D; Pillai S, 2022, Torture and cruel treatment in Australia’s refugee protection and immigration detention regimes: Submission to the UN Committee Against Torture’s sixth periodic review of Australia, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/20221003_HRLC_RCOA_Kaldor_Centre_Submission_Committee_Against_Torture.pdf

Hirsch A; Ghezelbash D; Dorostkar K; Walsh S, 2022, Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry: The performance and integrity of Australia’s administrative review system, https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2021-AAT-Inquiry-RCOA.pdf

Ghezelbash D; Wodak S; Ross R; Dutta-Powell R; Gallagher R, 2021, Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission Review of Judicial Impartiality, https://www.alrc.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/29.-Macquarie-University-Behavioural-Insights-Team-Public.pdf

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

Media

Ghezelbash D; Wodak S, 2025, Misinformation on refugees and migrants is rife during elections. We found 6 ways it spreads – and how to stop it, https://theconversation.com/misinformation-on-refugees-and-migrants-is-rife-during-elections-we-found-6-ways-it-spreads-and-how-to-stop-it-251035

Ghezelbash D; Talbot A, 2024, Another rushed migration bill would give the government sweeping powers to deport potentially thousands of people, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/another-rushed-migration-bill-would-give-the-government-sweeping-powers-to-deport-potentially-thousands-of-people-243365

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