• Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University

Maria is an Associate Professor in the Deakin Law School. She is also a member of Deakin Cyber and the lead of the Technology Harms research stream of the Centre for Law as Protection at Deakin University. Her teaching and research interests are public law, refugee law, human rights law and law and technology.

Maria holds a doctorate from Monash University, having completed her PhD on Article 1C(5) of the 1951 Refugees Convention dealing with cessation of refugee status. She also undertook a Masters of Law degree at the University of Essex (UK), specialising in international human rights law.

She is the author of a number of international and national publications on the subjects of refugee law and administrative law and is currently working on a series of projects relating to automation, artificial intelligence and government decision-making.

• 2023–present Associate professor, Deakin University
• 2002–2004 Legal Officer, Refugee Review Tribunal, Melbourne, Australia
• 2001–2002 Legal Researcher, Matrix Barristers Chambers, London

• 2013 Monash University, Phd Law
• 2001 University of Essex, UK, Masters of International Human Rights Law
• 1995 Australian National University, Bachelor of Laws (Hons I)

• Human Rights Law (180114)
• International Law (Excl. International Trade Law) (180116)
• Administrative Law (180103)

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