Dean, Melbourne Law School: Professor Michelle Foster

Dean, Melbourne Law School: Professor Michelle Foster
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Professor Michelle Foster has been appointed the Dean of the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Academic and Professional Leadership

Currently the Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Professor Foster previously served as Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) at The Melbourne Law School from 2014 to 2017.

Background and Research

Professor Foster established the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and has a global reputation as one of the leading scholars of international refugee and statelessness law. 

She is also a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and a Research Affiliate at the Refuge Law Initiative, University of London.