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"About the authors" [2018] ELECD 686; in Crock, Mary; Benson, B. Lenni (eds), "Protecting Migrant Children" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) viii

Book Title: Protecting Migrant Children

Editor(s): Crock, Mary; Benson, B. Lenni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786430250

Section Title: About the authors

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

About the authors THE EDITORS Mary Crock has worked in the area of immigration and refugee law since 1985. She is Professor of Public Law in the University of Sydney's Law School. Co-founder in 1989 of the specialist community legal service now known as Refugee Legal in Melbourne, Victoria, she has been recognized as an Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law since 1994. She has served on a variety of national, state and NGO bodies relating to immigration, refugees, disability and child protection. She has written extensively on issues related to immigration and refugee law, authoring 13 books and over 75 book chapters and refereed articles. Mary has had a research focus on the laws, policies and practices involving migrant children since 2004, working with Jacqueline Bhabha on the three-country `Seeking Asylum Alone' Project and later on the Australian-based `Small Mercies, Big Futures' Project. Her most recent book (with L. Smith-Khan, B. Saul and R.C. McCallum) is The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible? (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017). Lenni B. Benson is a Professor of Law at New York Law School. In 2012, she founded the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit organization that has aided over 1,500 unaccompanied youth by recruiting and mentoring pro bono counsel. She is a member of several national task forces on the needs of migrant youth, and has been a speaker for the federal government at national trainings. In 2012 she completed, with Russell Wheeler, ...