Dr. Jessica Hambly
Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, and Co-Director of the Law Reform and Social Justice Program
Dr Jessica Hambly is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU College of Law, and Co-Director of the Law Reform and Social Justice program.
She is a socio-legal scholar with interests in: access to justice for people seeking asylum; asylum law and procedure; refugee rights; gender and migration; legal professions and radical lawyering; inclusion and participation in ‘legal spaces’; court and tribunal (including online) architectures. Jess’ work uses socio-legal and legal geography methodologies, particularly relating to materiality, spatiality, temporality and chrono-politics.
Jess’s PhD was a socio-legal study of the role of lawyers in UK asylum appeals, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Jess has worked with a number of grassroots migrant and refugee rights organisations including Bristol Refugee Rights, Lesvos Legal Centre, and Samos Legal Centre.