Jennifer BURN

Ms Jennifer Burn is an Australian Jurist, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, and Director of the Anti-Slavery Project at the University of Technology, Sydney. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2002, after 4 years of part-time association during which time she pioneered an entry-level Registered Migration Agents’ course in addition to teaching citizenship and immigration law at undergraduate level. She previously worked in a legal practice specializing in immigration law and is presently the general editor of the Immigration Review (LexisNexis). She teaches Administrative Law and is a specialist in 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, she also took up the position of Director of the University’s Community Law Centre and has since taken a lead in the review of its role within the community, 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 Centers for her advocacy in the field of human trafficking. In 2006, she presented the Australian NGO Report to at the 34th Session of the Committee For The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).