Dr Jessica Hambly
Postdoctoral Fellow
LLB (KCL/ Paris 1); BCL (Oxon); MSc (Bristol); PhD (Bristol).
ANU College of Law, Bld 6, Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600
ANU College of Law, 5 Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600
Research interests
Biography
I joined the ANU College of Law as a Postdoctoral Fellow in February 2020, and became Senior Lecturer in October 2021. I am a socio-legal scholar with interests relating to: access to justice for people seeking asylum; asylum law and procedure; refugee rights; gender and migration; legal professions and radical lawyering; legal geography; inclusion and participation in 'legal spaces'; court and tribunal architectures.
My PhD was a socio-legal study of the role of lawyers in UK asylum appeals (University of Bristol 2017, supervised by Professor Dave Cowan and Professor Lois Bibbings, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council). I have an MSc in Socio-legal Studies from the University of Bristol (2011), a BCL (Distinction) from the University of Oxford (2010), and an LLB (1st Class) from King's College London (2009).
From 2015-17 I worked with Dr Devyani Prabhat on the ESRC-funded 'Citizenship and Law Project', looking in particular at children's citizenship rights. In 2018-19 I joined the ASYFAIR project, a comparative study of asylum appeal procedures around Europe, led by Professor Nick Gill of University of Exeter, UK, and in this role I was primarily based at the French National Asylum Court. Between 2017-2019 I also volunteered with grassroots refugee law clinics on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Samos.
I am a qualified yoga teacher and joined the board of directors for The Yoga Impact Charity in February 2020.
Appointments
- Director, The Yoga Impact Charity.
Significant research publications
- Hambly, J. (2021) ‘International Refugee Law in Crisis: Islands, Incarceration and Neo-refoulement During Covid-19’ Australian Yearbook of International Law.
- Hambly, J., Gill, N. and Vianelli, L. (2020) 'Using multi-member panels to tackle RSD complexities' Forced Migration Review 65 Recognising Refugees
- with Gill, N. et al. (2020) 'What’s Missing from Legal Geography and Materialist Studies of Law? Absence and the Assembling of Asylum Appeal Hearings in Europe' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Hambly, J. and Gill, N. (2020) ‘Law and Speed: Asylum Appeals and the Techniques and Consequences of Legal Quickening’ Journal of Law and Society 47(1), 3-28
- Hambly, J. (2019) ‘Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals: Lawyers and Law in a Quasi-legal Setting’ in Gill, N. and Good, A. (eds), Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Series
- Prabhat, D. and Hambly, J. (2018) ‘A Brave New British Citizenry? Reconceptualizing the Acquisition of British Citizenship by Children’ Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Sarat, A. (ed) Vol. 76, 25-47
- Prabhat, D. and Hambly, J. (2017) ‘The Practice of Immigration and Nationality Law: Setting Boundaries of Specialization at the Margins’ Onati Socio-Legal Series Vol. 7(7), 1509-1531 (from paper at ‘Working the Boundaries of Law’ workshop, Onati, 2016)
- Prabhat, D. and Hambly, J. (2017) ‘Bettering the Best Interests of the Child Determination: Of Checklists and Balancing Exercises’ International Journal of Children’s Rights Vol.25 (3-4), 754-778
Book chapters
- Hambly, J. (2019) ‘Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals: Lawyers and Law in a Quasi-legal Setting’ in Gill, N. and Good, A. (eds), Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Series
Refereed journal articles
- Hambly, J. (2021) ‘International Refugee Law in Crisis: Islands, Incarceration and Neo-refoulement During Covid-19’ Australian Yearbook of International Law.
- Hambly, J., Gill, N. and Vianelli, L. (2020) 'Using multi-member panels to tackle RSD complexities' Forced Migration Review 65 Recognising Refugees
- with Gill, N. et al. (2020) 'What’s Missing from Legal Geography and Materialist Studies of Law? Absence and the Assembling of Asylum Appeal Hearings in Europe' Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Hambly, J. and Gill, N. (2020) ‘Law and Speed: Asylum Appeals and the Techniques and Consequences of Legal Quickening’ Journal of Law and Society 47(1), 3-28
- Prabhat, D. and Hambly, J. (2018) ‘A Brave New British Citizenry? Reconceptualizing the Acquisition of British Citizenship by Children’ Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Sarat, A. (ed) Vol. 76, 25-47
- Prabhat, D. and Hambly, J. (2017) ‘The Practice of Immigration and Nationality Law: Setting Boundaries of Specialization at the Margins’ Onati Socio-Legal Series Vol. 7(7), 1509-1531 (from paper at ‘Working the Boundaries of Law’ workshop, Onati, 2016)
- Prabhat, D. and Hambly, J. (2017) ‘Bettering the Best Interests of the Child Determination: Of Checklists and Balancing Exercises’ International Journal of Children’s Rights Vol.25 (3-4), 754-778
Conference papers & presentations
- 2020 'Crucibles of Crisis: Covid 19 and the Greek Island Hotspots' Australian Yearbook of International Law Covid-19 and International Law Workshop, ANU Law
- 2020 'Law and Speed - Asylum Appeals and the Techniques and Consequences of Legal Quickening' The Society of Legal Scholars Conference (Virtual / Exeter, UK)
- 2019 ‘Law and the Speedscape of Asylum Appeals at the French National Asylum Court’ ASYFAIR Mid-project Review Workshop, University of Exeter.
- 2018 ‘Appellant Participation in Asylum Appeals in the UK and France’ LSAANZ, Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, New South Wales. Supported by SLSA Early Career Bursary.
- 2018 ‘Administrative Alienation: Comparing Appellant Participation in Asylum Appeals’ Kaldor Centre for Refugee Law, Emerging Scholars Network Meeting, UNSW, Sydney. Supported by Kaldor Centre Travel Bursary.
- 2017 ‘Lawyers in UK Refugee Tribunals’ and Author meets Reader Session with Prabhat, D. – ‘The Force of Law Unleashed? Lawyers and Legal Formalism’ Law and Society Association Conference, Mexico City.
- 2015 ‘Rebels with a Cause: The Working Lives of Advocates in Refugee Tribunals’ GLSA, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto.
- 2015 ‘Decision-making in Asylum Tribunals and the Role of Legal Representatives’ Research for Change Forum, University of Bristol Law School.
- 2014 ‘(Un)Professional Relationships and the Struggle for Expertise in Asylum Appeals’ European Asylum Adjudication Procedures Workshop, Bern, Switzerland
- 2014 ‘Advocacy and Judging in Asylum Appeals’ Refugee Law Initiative Workshop, Senate House.
- 2014 ‘Asylum Advocates and Tribunal Adjudication: Complexifying the Workgroup’ SLSA Annual Conference, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen.
- 2013 ‘Advocacy in Asylum Tribunals: Developing a Methodology’ Legal Research Network Summer School, Université Lille Nord de France.
- 2013 ‘Communities at the Edge: Barriers to Justice at the UK Asylum Tribunal’ Law on the Edge Conference, Canadian Law and Society Association and the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, UBC Vancouver.
- 2012 ‘Kylie and Cocktails: Constructing Gender and Sexuality in the Asylum Tribunal’ Critical Legal Studies Conference, Stockholm.
- 2012 ‘Gender and Judging in the UK Asylum Tribunal’ Law and Society Association Conference, Hawai'i.
Commissioned reports
- 2020 Public Law Project Research Paper (with Nick Gill et al.) 'Experiencing Asylum Appeal Hearings: 34 Ways to Improve Access to Justice at the First-tier Tribunal' available at: https://publiclawproject.org.uk/resources/experiencing-asylum-appeals/
- 2020 'Inferno at the Greece-Turkey Border' Gisti/Migreurope Mission Report - English Version available at: https://www.gisti.org/IMG/pdf/report_samos_2020.pdf
Other
- Hambly, J. (2021) Submission to Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants for report on pushback practices
- Hambly, J. (2020) 'Islands, Detention, and Refugee Rights in 'Crisis" ANU International Law and Covid-19 Essay Series, Available at: https://law.anu.edu.au/research/essay/covid-19-and-international-law/isl...‘crisis’
- Hambly, J. (2018) ‘Cut-Price Justice at the French National Asylum Court.’ Border Criminologies Blog, Available at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder...
- Hambly, J. (2018) ‘Court on Strike: French asylum reforms trigger months of action at the CNDA’ Socialist Lawyer 79 pp. 10-11
- Hambly, J. and Carver, N. (2017) ‘Brexit and Unemployment: Where Bureaucracy Becomes Brutal’ Available at: www.opendemocracy.net/natasha-carver-jessica-hambly/brexit-where-bureauc...
- Prabhat, D., Hambly, J., Valdez, S. (2016) ‘Children’s British Citizenship: Exposing Barriers to Registration’ Policy Bristol Report
- Prabhat, D., Hambly, J., Valdez, S. (2015) ‘Registration of Children as British Citizens’ Policy Bristol Report
Research interests
LLM Masters thesis supervision
2020 Natasha Chabbra - 'From treaty to field : A case study of the role of international law in sexual and gender-based violence programming in humanitarian emergencies'
Past courses
- LAWS1201 Foundations of Australian Law
- Constitutional Rights (University of Bristol)
- Law and State (University of Bristol)
- Socio-Legal Theory (University of Bristol)
