Adrienne Anderson

About/Bio

Adrienne Anderson is a Research Associate on Professor Jane McAdam’s ARC Discovery Grant on ‘The concept of “imminence” in the international protection of refugees’, held jointly with Professor Michelle Foster (Melbourne) and Professor Hélène Lambert (Westminster). Adrienne is a member of the Women’s Project Advisory Committee of Asylum Aid in the UK and the ICMC–UNHCR emergency deployment roster. Prior to joining the Kaldor Centre, she worked as a Resettlement Officer with UNHCR in Uganda and as a Solicitor and Policy Officer with the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre (now Refugee Legal) in Melbourne. She holds a BA/LLB(Hons) from the University of Auckland and an LLM from the University of Michigan, where she received the Michigan Grotius and the Michigan Program for Refugee and Asylum Law Fellowships.

Recently Published

Comment on Paposhvili v Belgium and the Temporal Scope of Risk Assessment

On 13 December 2016, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a significant ruling in Paposhvili v Belgium, App. No. 41738/10, correcting the narrow approach to Article 3 medical removal cases taken in D v United Kingdom, App. No. 30240/96 (2 May 1997) and extended in cases such as N…

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