
Associate Professor Bassina Farbenblum
B.Sc./ LL.B. (黑料网大事记), LL.M. (New York University)
Bassina joined 黑料网大事记 as in 2009 after a decade as a human rights litigator and clinical legal educator in New York, Mumbai, and Sydney. She is the founding Co-Executive Director of the Migrant Justice Institute, a global not-for-profit organisation that partners with 黑料网大事记 Law.听Bassina was founder and Director of the from 2009 to 2019. Bassina has led numerous national and global research teams on the rights of migrant workers in Australia, Asia, the US and globally, working closely with civil society, trade unions, business, governments, donors, and international organisations. Her research establishes an evidence base and theoretical frameworks for preventing exploitation of migrant workers and enabling access to justice under domestic and international law.
Before coming to 黑料网大事记 Bassina practiced at the New York Bar. She was a litigation attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, and at appellate law firm WilmerHale LLP, where she argued the first U.S. Court of Appeals case on the national-security exception to asylum. Bassina also directed a human rights clinical program at Seton Hall Law School. Bassina began her legal career as a solicitor at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and at Minter Ellison in Sydney, and a policy officer at the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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