By Scientia Professor Jane McAdam

Books

Goodwin-Gill G; McAdam J, 2021, The Refugee in International Law, Oxford University Press

McAdam J; Chong F, 2019, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs A frank, up-to-date guide by experts, UNSW Press, https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/refugee-rights-policy-wrongs/

McAdam J; Chong F, 2014, Refugees: Why Seeking Asylum in Australia is Legal and Australia's Policies are Not, UNSW Press, Australia, https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/facts-about-refugees/

McAdam J, 2012, Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law, Oxford University Press

Saul B; Sherwood S; McAdam J; Stephens T; Slezak J, 2012, Climate Change and Australia: Warming to the Global Challenge, Original, Federation Press, Australia, http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862878723

McAdam J, 2007, Complementary Protection in International Refugee Law, Original, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Goodwin-Gill GS; McAdam J, 2007, The Refugee in International Law, Original, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Book Chapters

McAdam J; Dunlop E, 2024, '‘Interpretation’', in Zimmermann A (ed.), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary, Oxford University Press

McAdam J, 2021, 'Displacement in the context of Climate Change and Disasters', in Costello C; Foster M; McAdam J (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press

McAdam J, 2021, 'Complementary Protection', in Costello C; Foster M; McAdam J (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press

Costello C; Foster M; McAdam J, 2021, 'Introducing International Refugee Law as a Scholarly Field', in McAdam J; Costello C; Foster M (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198848639.003.0001

McAdam J; Weerasinghe S, 2020, 'Climate Change and Human Movement', in The Future of Human Rights and Climate Change, Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.nl/actueel/climate-change-justice-and-human-rights

Dunlop E; McAdam J; Weeks G, 2019, 'A Search for Rights: Judicial and Administrative Responses to Migration and Refugee Cases', in Groves M; Boughey J; Meagher D (ed.), The Legal Protection of Rights in Australia, Hart Publishing, https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/the-legal-protection-of-rights-in-australia-9781509919833/

Kaelin W; McAdam J, 2019, 'Environmental Displacement', in Aguila Y; Vinuales J (ed.), A Global Pact for the Environment: Legal Foundations, pp. 159 - 166, https://globalpactenvironment.org/uploads/Aguila-Vinuales-A-Global-Pact-for-the-Environment-Cambridge-Report-March-2019.pdf

McAdam J, 2018, 'The High Price of Resettlement: the proposed environmental relocation of Nauru to Australia', in Population, Migration and Settlement in Australia and the Asia-Pacific: In Memory of Graeme Hugo, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Population-Migration-and-Settlement-in-Australia-and-the-Asia-Pacific/Klocker-Dun/p/book/9781138551282

McAdam J, 2017, 'An intellectual history of freedom of movement in international law: The right to leave as a personal liberty', in Crock M (ed.), Refugees and Rights, Taylor and Francis, pp. 3 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315244969

McAdam J, 2017, 'Swimming against the tide: Why a climate change displacement treaty is not the answer', in Crock M (ed.), Refugees and Rights, pp. 379 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315244969

McAdam J, 2016, 'Forced Migration from Disasters', in World Disasters Report 2016: Resilience: Saving Lives Today, Investing for Tomorrow, pp. 21 - 21

McAdam J, 2016, 'Climate Change-Related Displacement of Persons', in Gray KP; Tarasofsky R; Carlarne CP (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 519 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199684601.001.0001

McAdam J, 2014, 'Human Rights and Forced Migration', in Long LIIDK; Sigona LABFN (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 203 - 214, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199652433.do

McAdam J, 2014, 'Conceptualizing 'Crisis Migration'', in Martin SF; Weerasinghe S; Taylor A (ed.), Humanitarian Crises and Migration : Causes, Consequences and Responses, Routledge, London, pp. 28 - 49, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415857321/

McAdam J, 2013, 'Migrating Laws? The "Plagiaristic Dialogue" between Europe and Australia', in Lambert H; McAdam J; Fullerton M (ed.), The Global Reach of European Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 25 - 70, http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/41752/toc/9781107041752_toc.pdf

McAdam J, 2011, 'Climate Change Displacement and International Law: Complementary Protection Standards', in Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, edn. Original, UNHCR, Geneva, http://www.unhcr.org/4dff16e99.html

McAdam J, 2011, 'Environmental Migration', in Betts A (ed.), Global Migration Governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 153 - 188, http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/social_science/politics/9780199600458

McAdam J, 2011, 'Interpretation', in Zimmermann A (ed.), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 75 - 115, http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/InternationalStudies/HumanRights/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780199542512

McAdam J, 2011, 'Refusing 'Refuge' in the Pacific: (De)Constructing Climate-Induced Displacement in International Law', in Piguet E; Pecoud A; de Guchtenieree P (ed.), Migration and Climate Change, edn. Original, Cambridge University Press/ UNESCO, Cambridge, pp. 102 - 137, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/migration_and_climate_change_a_unesco_publication_on_one_of_the_greatest_challenges_facing_our_time/

McAdam J, 2010, '"Disappearing States", Statelessness and the Boundaries of International Law', in McAdam J (ed.), Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edn. Original, Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 105 - 130, http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781849460385

McAdam J, 2010, 'An Insecure Climate for Human Security? Climate-Induced Displacement and International Law', in Edwards A; Ferstman C (ed.), Human Security and Non-Citizens: Law, Policy and International Affairs, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 357 - 403, http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521734943

McAdam J, 2010, 'Individual Risk, Armed Conflict and the Standard of Proof in Complementary Protection Claims: The European Union and Canada Compared', in Simeon JC (ed.), Critical Issues in International Refugee Law: Strategies for Interpretative Harmony, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 59 - 84, http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2705722/?site_locale=en_GB

McAdam J, 2010, 'Introduction', in McAdam J (ed.), Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edn. Original, Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 1 - 8, http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781849460385

McAdam J, 2008, 'Humane Rights: The Refugee Convention as a Blueprint for Complementary Protection Status', in McAdam J (ed.), Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security, Hart Publishing, pp. 263 - 282

McAdam J, 2008, 'Overstayers', in Cane P; Conaghan J (ed.), The New Oxford Companion to Law, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 857 - 858

McAdam J, 2008, 'Visas', in Cane P; Conaghan J (ed.), The New Oxford Companion to Law, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 1225 - 1226

McAdam J, 2007, 'The Qualification Directive: An Overview', in Zwaan K (ed.), The Qualification Directive: Central Themes, Problem Issues and Implementation in Selected Member States, edn. Original, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, pp. 7 - 29

McAdam J; Durieux J, 2006, 'Non Refoulement through Time: The Case for a Derogation Clause to the Refugee Convention in Mass Influx Emergencies', in Bayefsky A (ed.), Refugees and Displaced Persons in Process: Essays in Honour of Joan Fitzpatrick and Arthur Helton, edn. Original, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, pp. 211 - 231

Edited Books

Costello C; Foster M; McAdam J, (eds.), 2021, The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press

Vidas D; Freestone D; McAdam J, (eds.), 2019, International Law and Sea Level Rise: Report of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise, Brill, https://brill.com/view/title/54753

McAdam J; Lambert H; Fullerton M, (eds.), 2013, The Global Reach of European Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

McAdam J, (ed.), 2010, Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Hart Publishing, Oxford

McAdam J, (ed.), 2008, Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security, Hart Publishing, Oxford

McAdam J; & Others , (ed.), 1995, Displaced Worlds: Experience and History in Modern Europe, Sydney Studies in History No 4, University of Sydney

Journal articles

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

McAdam J, 2023, 'Turning Points in International Protection: Onwards and Upwards, or U-Turns and Roundabouts?', International Journal of Refugee Law, 35, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eead005

Burson B; Kaelin W; McAdam J, 2023, 'Statehood, Human Rights and Sea-Level Rise: A Response to the International Law Commission’s Second Issues Paper on Sea-Level Rise in relation to International Law', , 4, pp. 265 - 280, https://brill.com/display/title/64201

McAdam J, 2022, 'Exploring the Legal Basis in Australia for Evacuations from Disasters: Avoiding Arbitrary Displacement', UNSW Law Journal, 45, pp. 1329 - 1366, http://dx.doi.org/10.53637/OYFB2213

McAdam J, 2022, 'Evacuations and Relocations after Disasters: Safeguarding Lives and Rights', Australian Environment Review, 37, pp. 46 - 49

Lixinski L; McAdam J; Tupou P, 2022, 'Ocean Cultures, the Anthropocene and International Law: Cultural Heritage and Mobility Law as Imaginative Gateways', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 23, pp. 1 - 22, https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/4256440/Lixinski,-McAdam-and-Tupou-Advance-Copy.pdf

Foster M; Mcadam J, 2022, 'ANALYSIS OF 'IMMINENCE' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION CLAIMS: TEITIOTA V NEW ZEALAND AND BEYOND', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 71, pp. 975 - 982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589322000367

McAdam J, 2022, 'Moving beyond Refugee Law: Putting Principles on Climate Mobility into Practice', International Journal of Refugee Law, 34, pp. 440 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeac039

Foster M; Gordon H; Lambert H; McAdam J, 2022, '‘Time' in Refugee Status Determination in Australia and the United Kingdom: A Clear and Present Danger from Armed Conflict?', International Journal of Refugee Law, 34, pp. 163 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeac033

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