{{Short description|Australian legal scholar}} {{distinguish|text=the Canadian politician Jane MacAdam}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jane McAdam | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO|FASSA|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Jane Alexandra McAdam | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}} | birth_place = Australia | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = | alma_mater = | employer = University of NSW | occupation = Legal scholar | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = }}
'''Jane Alexandra McAdam''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO|FASSA}} (born 1974) is an Australian legal scholar, and expert in climate change and refugees. She is a Scientia Professor at the University of NSW, and is the inaugural Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2021 for “distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change”.
== Career == McAdam is the centre director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kaldor Centre {{!}}|url=https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au}}</ref> (UNSW) and a Scientia Professor of Law.<ref name="Newsbot">{{Cite web|last=Newsbot|first=T. B. S.|date=2021-11-26|title=$385m contract to an $8 company: Yet more Nauru corruption emerges|url=https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2021/11/26/385m-contract-to-an-8-company-yet-more-nauru-corruption-emerges/|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Big Smoke|language=en-US}}</ref> She holds or has held positions external to her current role, as a Senior Fellow at both The Brookings Institution, in the United States, and at the University of Oxford, as well as the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, and Refugee Law Initiative, London.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Contributors Articles {{!}} The Interpreter|url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/contributors/articles/jane-mcadam|access-date=2021-12-05|website=www.lowyinstitute.org|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Professor Jane McAdam {{!}} Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)|url=https://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/ccrc-team/affiliated-visitors/jane-mcadam|access-date=2021-12-04|website=www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong|url=https://www.asyluminsight.com/c-jane-mcadam-and-fiona-chong|access-date=2021-12-05|website=Asylum Insight|language=en-AU}}</ref>
She works on issues surrounding the human rights and legal issues around asylum seekers and refugees from climate change and climate disasters, including flooding, rising sea levels, rising temperatures and bushfires, as well as international travel around Covid restrictions.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-07-21|title=Refugee advocate awarded prestigious international human rights prize|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/refugee-advocate-awarded-prestigious/8730582|access-date=2021-12-04|website=ABC Radio National|language=en-AU}}</ref>
Specifically, McAdam's research focusses on the policy and legal responses that occur due to the impacts of climate change, and in particular, relocation that may be required due to climate change.<ref name=":0" /> McAdam has commented on the consequences of a warming planet, and the impact on people forced to move on account of disasters and climate change, raising the question 'where will they go'? <ref>{{Cite web|title=One person is displaced every second by our warming planet. Where will they go?|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/one-person-is-displaced-every-second-by-our-warming-planet-where-will-they-go/c84e2a23-2e4a-4c3f-aa66-095cf2de6bdd|access-date=2021-12-04|website=SBS News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Perkins|first=Miki|date=2021-11-13|title=Island nations rise up as their homelands start to sink|url=https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/island-nations-rise-up-as-their-homelands-start-to-sink-20211112-p598l3.html|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref> Over the course of her career she has won a number of international prizes for her work on human rights, including for research on climate change and forced migration.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McCutchan|first=Ellen|date=2017-07-25|title=Australian professor wins prestigious human rights prize|url=http://thecityjournal.net/daily-news-podcast/australian-professor-wins-prestigious-human-rights-prize/|access-date=2021-12-05|website=The City Journal|language=en-US}}</ref> She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law.<ref name=":1" />
== Media == McAdam has contributed to the media on issues such as refugees,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Protecting people who lose their homes to climate change|url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/protecting-people-who-lose-their-homes-climate-change|access-date=2021-12-04|website=www.lowyinstitute.org|language=en}}</ref> and the suite of climate change issues that negatively impact people, including fires, floods, and rising water levels. For example she wrote about the Australian's displaced due to bushfires, where the 2019-2020 Black Summer January fires saw 65,000 displaced from their homes,<ref>{{Cite web|last=AO|first=Jane McAdam|title=Millions of people were evacuated during disasters last year – another rising cost of climate change|url=http://theconversation.com/millions-of-people-were-evacuated-during-disasters-last-year-another-rising-cost-of-climate-change-170105|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref> These bushfires lead to 35 deaths, burned 18.6 million ha, and destroyed over 5,900 buildings and 2,799 homes.
McAdam also has provided commentary around the policy of restrictions on people returning home to Australia in 2020-2021 following Covid-19 and the legal issues surrounding government restrictions.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=AO|first1=Jane McAdam|last2=Jefferies|first2=Regina|title=Why the latest travel caps look like an arbitrary restriction on Australians' right to come home|url=http://theconversation.com/why-the-latest-travel-caps-look-like-an-arbitrary-restriction-on-australians-right-to-come-home-161882|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref> McAdam has also written about the cost, legal and ethical issues of keeping refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.<ref name="Newsbot"/> She wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald around a decision, by the UN Human Rights Committee who decided that climate refugees cannot be forced to return to their homes.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McAdam|first=Jane|date=2020-01-20|title=Climate refugees cannot be forced back home|url=https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-refugees-cannot-be-forced-back-home-20200119-p53sp4.html|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>
McAdam has contributed to The Conversation extensively, writing and providing commentary around refugee children,<ref>{{Cite web|last=AO|first=Jane McAdam|title=Offshore processing centres are no place for asylum seeker children|url=http://theconversation.com/offshore-processing-centres-are-no-place-for-asylum-seeker-children-20794|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref> Manus island, and the policies around asylum seekers.<ref>{{Cite web|last=AO|first=Jane McAdam|title=Manus Island: the end does not justify the means|url=http://theconversation.com/manus-island-the-end-does-not-justify-the-means-23716|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref> She has also conduced fact checking for The Conversation around publicly made claims surrounding climate refugee numbers and estimates.<ref>{{Cite web|last=AO|first=Jane McAdam|title=FactCheck Q&A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?|url=http://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-as-the-climate-changes-are-750-million-refugees-predicted-to-move-away-from-flooding-63400|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=AO|first=Jane McAdam|title=How do we deal with the prospect of increased climate migration?|url=http://theconversation.com/how-do-we-deal-with-the-prospect-of-increased-climate-migration-69614|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=AO|first1=Jane McAdam|last2=Church|first2=John|title=Rising seas will displace millions of people – and Australia must be ready|url=http://theconversation.com/rising-seas-will-displace-millions-of-people-and-australia-must-be-ready-101906|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=AO|first1=Jane McAdam|last2=Jefferies|first2=Regina|title=Who's being allowed to leave Australia during COVID? FOI data show it is murky and arbitrary|url=http://theconversation.com/whos-being-allowed-to-leave-australia-during-covid-foi-data-show-it-is-murky-and-arbitrary-163725|access-date=2021-12-04|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref>
== Select publications == As of December 2021, McAdam has an H number of over 30, and over 6,000 citations from her work, according to Google Scholar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jane McAdam|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T0R-z8EAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2021-12-05|website=scholar.google.com}}</ref>
* ''The refugee in international law'', Guy S Goodwin-Gill, Jane McAdam (2021)<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Goodwin-Gill|first1=Guy S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mdg9EAAAQBAJ&dq=info:jYOc2FbJt98J:scholar.google.com&pg=PP1|title=The Refugee in International Law|last2=McAdam|first2=Jane|date=2021|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-880856-5|language=en}}</ref> *''Refugee rights and policy wrongs: A frank up-to-date guide by experts,'' Jane McAdam & Fiona Chong (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs|url=https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/refugee-rights-policy-wrongs/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=www.newsouthbooks.com.au|language=en}}</ref> * ''Climate change, forced migration, and international law,'' Jane McAdam (2012)<ref>{{Cite book|last=McAdam|first=Jane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHcEPGcPlBoC&dq=info:DQBpbWDN074J:scholar.google.com&pg=PP1|title=Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law|date=2012-02-23|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-958708-7|language=en}}</ref> * Swimming against the Tide: Why a Climate Change Displacement Treaty is Not the Answer, J McAdam (2011) ''International Journal of Refugee Law'' 23 (1), 2-27<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mcadam|first=Jane|date=2011-03-01|title=Swimming against the Tide: Why a Climate Change Displacement Treaty is Not the Answer|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eeq045|journal=International Journal of Refugee Law|volume=23|issue=1|pages=2–27|doi=10.1093/ijrl/eeq045|issn=0953-8186|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
== Prizes and awards == * 2023 – Australian Laureate Fellow<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Jane McAdam |url=https://www.arc.gov.au/funding-research/funding-schemes/discovery-program/australian-laureate-fellowships/2023-laureate-profile-professor-jane-mcadam |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=Australian Research Council}}</ref> * 2021 – Officer of the Order of Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jane McAdam|url=https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/jane-mcadam|access-date=2021-12-04|website=www.rsc.ox.ac.uk|language=en}}</ref> * 2017 – Winner, International Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for human rights * 2017 – Finalist, NSW Premier’s Award for Woman of the Year * 2016 – Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy Fellow: Professor Jane McAdam AO FASSA |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9RgAAI |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |language=en-AU}}</ref> * 2015 – Global category of Westpac 100 Women of Influence * 2015 – Australia’s top 10 Women of Influence * 2013 – Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum
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== External links == * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T0R-z8EAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar] * [https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9RgAAI Academy of Social Sciences] * Australia Day Honours
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