Ms Azadeh Dastyari

Assistant Lecturer
BA, LLB (Hons), Dip PDLP,

Professional Profile

Azadeh Dastyari's main area of interest is international and domestic law relating to the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.  She is the recipient of a HG Walker Fulbright Scholarship (awarded to the highest ranking postgraduate Fulbright scholar) and the Lionel Murphy Scholarship.  She is a co-founder of RAVN, the Refugee Advocacy Volunteer Network at the University of  Sydney, which provides legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers, and was a member of the founding collective for North West Friends of Refugees.  Azadeh is an Associate of the Castan Centre and has worked closely with various NGO's since 1999 in the refugee area, including in voluntary capacities with Amnesty International, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Refugee Advocacy and Casework Services.  Azadeh is a co-author (with Dr Mary Cook and Dr Ben Saul) of Future Seekers 11: Refugees and Irregular Migration in Australia (Federation Press, 2006).

A selection of Ms Dastyari's publications is available on-line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=639808

Areas of Expertise

Refugee law
Immigration law
Human rights

Teaching Commitments

Australian legal system (LLM) (Sum/T1) (2011) (LAW7212)
Introduction to legal reasoning (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW1101)