Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 9662
f: +61 2 9514 9685
e: Jennifer.Burn@uts.edu.au
Location
Mary Anne House
Lvl 3, 645 Harris Street
Ultimo NSW 2007
Room# CH01.03.02F
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Immigration
› Human Rights
› Refugee and Humanitarian Law
Current Teaching
70617 Administrative Law
76048 Citizenship and
Immigration Law
76069 Community Legal Research
Academic Profile
Jennifer Burn joined UTS:LAW full-time in 2002, after a 4 year part time association during which time she pioneering an entry-level Registered Migration Agents' course in addition to teaching the undergraduate law subject Citizenship & Immigration Law. She had previously worked in a law practice specialising in immigration law and is general editor of the Immigration Review (LexisNexis).
Jennifer teaches in Administrative Law as well as specialist electives associated with citizenship, immigration and social justice issues.
In 2004, she was awarded the UTS Vice-Chancellor's Social Justice Medal for her anti human trafficking work. In the same year, Jennifer also took up the position of Director of the University's Community Law Centre. She has since taken a lead in the review of the community role of that Centre, the opportunities it can provide for wider legal experience for students and the establishment of a new refereed journal, Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice.
In 2005 Jennifer was awarded the Law and Justice Foundation Justice Award for Community Legal Centres for her advocacy in the area of human trafficking.
In 2006, she presented the Australian NGO report to 34th Session of the Committee For The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),
Current Research Activities
UTS Community Law Centre project "Anti- Slavery" www.antislavery.org.au
Grants, Recent Publications and Papers
Australian Research Council (ARC) grant: "recent developments in people smuggling" (with Professor Sam Blay and Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer)
"Evaluation of the duty to protect victims of sex-trafficking", LSF grant (2006)
"Human trafficking and slavery in the Australian workforce", LSF grant (2006)
Co-author, Immigration Kit (2005) Federation Press
J. Burn, S. Blay & F. Simmons, "Combating human trafficking: Australia's response to modern day slavery", (2005) 79 ALJ 529
J. Burn & F. Simmons, "Rewarding witnesses, ignoring victims: an evaluation of the new trafficking visa framework", (2005) 24 Immigration Review 387
J. Burn, "Ignoring the victims: the new 'witness protection' trafficking visas", Annals Australasia, 2005
Burn, J, Simmons F & Costello G., Australian NGO Shadow Report on Trafficked Women In Australia, submitted to the 34th Session of the Committee For The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), United Nations, New York, January 2006