• Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University

Maria is an Associate Professor in the Deakin Law School. She is also a member of Deakin Cyber and the lead of the Technology Harms research stream of the Centre for Law as Protection at Deakin University. Her teaching and research interests are public law, refugee law, human rights law and law and technology.

Maria holds a doctorate from Monash University, having completed her PhD on Article 1C(5) of the 1951 Refugees Convention dealing with cessation of refugee status. She also undertook a Masters of Law degree at the University of Essex (UK), specialising in international human rights law.

She is the author of a number of international and national publications on the subjects of refugee law and administrative law and is currently working on a series of projects relating to automation, artificial intelligence and government decision-making.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Associate professor, Deakin University
  • 2021–2023
    Associate professor, Monash University
  • 2016–2021
    Senior lecturer, Monash University
  • 2007–2015
    Lecturer , Monash University
  • 2004–2006
    Associate lecturer, Monash University
  • 2002–2004
    Legal Officer, Refugee Review Tribunal, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2001–2002
    Legal Researcher, Matrix Barristers Chambers, London

Education

  • 2013 
    Monash University, Phd Law
  • 2001 
    University of Essex, UK, Masters of International Human Rights Law
  • 1995 
    Australian National University, Bachelor of Laws (Hons I)

Research Areas

  • Human Rights Law (180114)
  • International Law (Excl. International Trade Law) (180116)
  • Administrative Law (180103)

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