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McAdam J, 2022, 'Evacuations: A Form of Disaster Displacement?', Forced Migration Review, 69, pp. 56 - 57

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

Foster M; Lambert H; McAdam J, 2021, 'Refugee Protection in the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond: The Capacity and Limits of International Law', UNSW Law Journal, 44, pp. 103 - 124

McAdam J; Wood T, 2021, 'The Concept of “International Protection” in the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration', Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, 23, pp. 191 - 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1854105

McAdam J, 2020, 'Displacing Evacuations: A Blind Spot in Disaster Displacement Research', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 39, pp. 583 - 590

McAdam J, 2020, 'Protecting People Displaced by the Impacts of Climate Change: The UN Human Rights Committee and the Principle of Non-Refoulement', American Journal of International Law, 114, pp. 708 - 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2020.31

Anderson A; Foster M; Lambert H; McAdam J, 2020, 'A Well-Founded Fear of Being Persecuted … But When?', The Sydney Law Review, 42, pp. 155 - 181, https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/sydney-law-school/research/publications/slrv42n2jun2020andersonetaladvance.pdf

McAdam J, 2019, 'Editorial', International Journal of Refugee Law, 31, pp. 179 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez039

McAdam J, 2019, 'Editorial', International Journal of Refugee Law, 31, pp. 179 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez039

McAdam J, 2019, 'Managing Displacement in the Era of Climate Change', Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2019/11/07/managing-displacement-in-the-era-of-climate-change/

McAdam J, 2019, 'The global compacts on refugees and migration: A new era for international protection?', International Journal of Refugee Law, 30, pp. 571 - 574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez004

Anderson A; Foster M; Lambert H; McAdam J, 2019, 'Imminence in Refugee and Human Rights Law: A Misplaced Notion for International Protection', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 68, pp. 111 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589318000398

McAdam J, 2019, 'Introductory Note to Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration', The American Society of International Law, 58, pp. 160 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ilm.2019.6

McAdam J; Burson B; Kälin W; Weerasinghe S, 2018, 'The Duty to Move People out of Harm’s Way in the context of Climate Change and Disasters', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2018, Vol.37, pp. 379 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdy015

McAdam J, 2018, 'The Guiding Principles on internal displacement: 20 years on', International Journal of Refugee Law, 30, pp. 187 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eey024

Dowd R; Hunter J; Liddell B; McAdam J; Nickerson A; Bryant R, 2018, 'Filling gaps and verifying facts: Assumptions and credibility assessment in the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal', International Journal of Refugee Law, 30, pp. 71 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eey017

Dowd R; McAdam J, 2017, 'International cooperation and responsibility-sharing to protect refugees: What, why and how?', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 66, pp. 863 - 892, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589317000343

McAdam J, 2017, 'The enduring relevance of the 1951 refugee convention', International Journal of Refugee Law, 29, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eex017

Foster M; McAdam J; Wadley D, 2017, 'Part one: The protection of stateless persons in Australian law - The rationale for a statelessness determination procedure', Melbourne University Law Review, 40, pp. 401 - 455

Foster M; McAdam J; Wadley D, 2017, 'Part two: The prevention and reduction of statelessness in Australia - An ongoing challenge', Melbourne University Law Review, 40, pp. 456 - 505

McAdam J; Dowd R, 2017, 'International Cooperation and Responsibility-Sharing to Combat Climate Change: Lessons for International Refugee Law', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 18, pp. 180 - 218

McAdam J, 2017, 'Self-Determination and Self-Governance for Communities Relocated across International Borders: The Quest for Banaban Independence', International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 24

McAdam J, 2017, 'The High Price of Resettlement: When Nauru Almost Moved to Australia', Australian Geographer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2016.1202376

McAdam J, 2016, '"Under Two Jurisdictions": Immigration, Citizenship, and Self-Governance in Cross-Border Community Relocations', Law and History Review, 34, pp. 281 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0738248016000055

McAdam J, 2016, 'Editorial', International Journal of Refugee Law, 28, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eew018

McAdam J, 2016, 'Building International Approaches to Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement', Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 33, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3366669

McAdam J, 2016, 'From the Nansen Initiative to the Platform on Disaster Displacement: Shaping International Approaches to Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 39, pp. 1518 - 1546

McAdam J, 2016, 'Guy S Goodwin-Gill: The International Refugee Law Scholar', International Journal of Refugee Law, 28, pp. 552 - 563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eew036

McAdam J; Foster M; Wadley D, 2016, 'The Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness in Australia: An On-Going Challenge', Melbourne University Law Review, 40

McAdam J; Foster M; Wadley D, 2016, 'The Protection of Stateless Persons in Australian Law: The Rationale for a Statelessness Status Determination Procedure', Melbourne University Law Review

McAdam J, 2015, 'Relocation and resettlement from colonisation to climate change: the perennial solution to 'danger zones'', London Review of International Law, 3, pp. 93 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lru015

McAdam J, 2015, 'The emerging New Zealand jurisprudence on climate change, disasters and displacement', Migration Studies, 3, pp. 131 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnu055

McAdam J; Chia J; Purcell K, 2015, 'Asylum in Australia: ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ and International Law', Australian Year Book of International Law, 32, pp. 33 - 64

McAdam J; Vidas D; Freestone D, 2015, 'International Law and Sea Level Rise: The New ILA Committee', ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, 21, pp. 397 - 408, file:///D:/Users/z2127562/Downloads/21ILSAJIntlCompL397.pdf

McAdam J, 2015, 'Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past', Forced Migration Review, 49, pp. 30 - 32

McAdam J; Ferris E, 2015, 'Planned Relocations in the Context of ClimateChange: Unpacking the Legal and Conceptual Issues', Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 4, pp. 137 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.7574/cjicl.04.01.137

McAdam J, 2014, 'Historical Cross-Border Relocations in the Pacific: Lessons for Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change', The Journal of Pacific History, 49, pp. 301 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2014.953317

McAdam J; Chong F, 2014, 'Complementary Protection in Australia Two Years On: A Developing Human Rights Jurisprudence', Federal Law Review, 42, pp. 441 - 483

McAdam J, 2014, 'Creating New Norms on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: International Developments 2010–2013', Refuge: Canada's journal on refugees, 29, pp. 11 - 26, http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/refuge/article/viewFile/38164/34560

McAdam J, 2014, 'The Concept of Crisis Migration', Forced Migration Review, 45, pp. 10 - 12

McAdam J; Bashford A, 2014, 'The Right to Asylum: Britain’s 1905 Aliens Act and the Evolution of Refugee Law', Law and History Review, 32, pp. 309 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S07382480140000

McAdam J, 2013, 'Rethinking the Origins of 'Persecution' in Refugee Law', International Journal of Refugee Law, 25, pp. 667 - 692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eet048

McAdam J, 2013, 'The problem of ‘crisis migration’', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 19, pp. 7 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323-238X.2013.11882132

McAdam J, 2013, 'Australia and Asylum Seekers', International Journal of Refugee Law, 25, pp. 435 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eet044

McAdam J; Wood T, 2012, 'Australian Asylum Policy All at Sea: An analysis of plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and the Australia-Malaysia arrangement', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 61, pp. 274 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020589311000662

McAdam J, 2012, 'From Humanitarian Discretion to Complementary Protection: Reflections on the Emergence of Human Rights-Based Refugee Protection in Australia', Australian International Law Journal, 18, pp. 53 - 76, http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=20122534;res=AGISPT

McAdam J, 2011, 'Australian Complementary Protection: A Step-by-Step Approach', Sydney Law Review, 33, pp. 687 - 734, http://sydney.edu.au/law/slr/slr_33/slr33_4/SLRv33no4McAdam.pdf

McAdam J, 2011, 'Swimming against the tide: Why a climate change displacement treaty is not the answer', International Journal of Refugee Law, 23, pp. 2 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeq045

McAdam J, 2011, 'The Right to Leave Any Country: An Intellectual History of Freedom of Movement in International Law', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 12, pp. 27 - 56, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=361624001603032;res=IELHSS

McAdam J; Saul B, 2010, 'Displacement with Dignity: Climate Change, Migration and Security in Bangladesh', German Yearbook of International Law, 53, pp. 233 - 287


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