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Journal articles

McAdam J, 2024, 'Preserving Statehood through Population and Government: Safeguarding Nationality and Franchise in the context of Sea-Level Rise and Mobility', New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, 20, pp. 3 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004699663_002

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

McAdam J, 2023, 'Will International Refugee Law Still Be Relevant in 2033?', International Journal of Refugee Law, 35, pp. 365 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeae015

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

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.53637/nhgb1203

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


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