Bio
Dr Michelle Foster is an Associate Professor and Director of the International Refugee Law Research Programme in the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of public law, international refugee law, and international human rights law. Michelle has published widely in the field of international refugee law, including her ground-breaking book International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation. She is the co-author (with James Hathaway) of the second edition of the seminal Law of Refugee Status, to be published in 2014.
Publications/recent projects
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PART ONE: THE PROTECTION OF STATELESS PERSONS IN AUSTRALIAN LAW - THE RATIONALE FOR A STATELESSNESS DETERMINATION PROCEDURE. Melbourne University Law Review. 40. 2017
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PART TWO: THE PREVENTION AND REDUCTION OF STATELESSNESS IN AUSTRALIA - AN ONGOING CHALLENGE. Melbourne University Law Review. 40. 2017
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Economic Migrant or Person in Need of Protection? Socio-Economic Rights and Persecution in International Refugee Law. Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory. 2016
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Non-refoulement as Custom and Jus Cogens? Putting the Prohibition to the Test. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2015: Jus Cogens: Quo Vadis?. Springer. 2016