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Dr Chantal Bostock

Dr Chantal Bostock

Senior Lecturer
  • PhD (Law) -
  • LLM - University of Sydney
  • Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice - University of Tasmania
  • BA/LLB - University of Tasmania
  • Admitted to Supreme Court of England/Wales
  • Admitted to Federal Court/High Court of Australia
  • Admitted to Supreme Court of NSW
  • Admitted to Supreme Court of Tasmania
  • NAATI-accredited professional translator - French/English
Law & Justice
School of Global & Public Law

I have worked in private practice in Sydney, specialising in migration/refugee law and as a senior lawyer at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (UK) and the Law Commission (UK). In addition, I have worked as a senior lawyer and Tribunal member at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Sydney. I currently sit as a lay member of the Medical Council of NSW.
Phone
9385 3283
E-mail
c.bostock@unsw.edu.au
Location
Law Faculty
  • Journal articles | 2020
    Bostock C; Cabarrús J, 2020, 'Short Shrift to International Non-Refoulement Obligations? Australia’s Approach to Criminal Deportation', International Journal of Refugee Law, 32, pp. 597 - 622,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Bostock C, 2018, 'Expulsion: A comparative study of Australia and France', AIAL Forum, 92, pp. 87 - 102
    Journal articles | 2011
    Bostock C, 2011, 'The Effect of Ministerial Directions on Tribunal Independence', Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 18, pp. 161 - 171,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Bostock C, 2010, 'Procedural fairness and the AAT’s review of visa cancellation decisions on character grounds', Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 17, pp. 77 - 91
    Journal articles | 2002
    Bostock CMJ, 2002, 'The international legal obligations owed to the asylum seekers on the MV Tampa', International Journal of Refugee Law, 14, pp. 279 - 301,
  • Other | 2021
    Bostock C; Appleby G; Blayden L; Boughey J, 2021, A principled approach to key reforms of Australia's administrative review system, ,
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Bostock C; Simmons F, 2021, 'Vulnerability and administrative decision-making', presented at Kerr’s Vision Splendid for Administrative Law: Still Fit for Purpose?, Australian Institute for Administrative Law and Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, 21 October 2021 - 22 October 2021
    Other | 2021
    Bostock C, 2021, Not “just another piece of material”: the value of Tribunal review, ,
    Submissions to Government | 2021
    Boughey J; Appleby G; Bostock C; Blayden L, 2021, Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry: The performance and integrity of Australia’s administrative review system, ,
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Bostock C, 2020, 'Procedural fairness and migration decision-making at the AAT', presented at Law Council of Australia Immigration Law Conference, Melbourne, 05 March 2020 - 07 March 2020
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Bostock C, 2018, 'Expulsion: A comparative study of Australia and France', presented at National Administrative Law Conference, 27 September 2018

My areas of interest are administrative law, including refugee and migration law.

My PhD is entitled The Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Character Assessments for Non-Citizens.

My academic publications and oral presentations include the following:

  • “Expulsion: a comparative study of Australia and France” Delivered paper, National Administration Law Conference 2018.
  • “Expulsion: a comparative study of Australia and France” (2018) 92 AIAL Forum 87-102.
  • “The effect of ministerial directions on Tribunal independence” (2011) 18 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 161-171; (2011) 66 AIAL Forum 33-42.
  • “Procedural fairness and the AAT’s review of visa cancellation decisions on character grounds” (2010) 17 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 77-91.
  • “Tribunal independence”, Delivered paper, National Administration Law Conference 2010.
  • “Cancelling visas on character grounds: a fundamentally new direction has been made governing s 501 visa cancellations” (2009) 47(9) Law Society Journal 66-68.
  • "The challenge of migration to legal systems," WG Hart Workshop, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Delivered paper on the challenges of the proposed single tier immigration and asylum appeals system, comparing the UK and Australia 2004.
  • “The international legal obligations owed to the asylum seekers on board the Tampa” (2002) 14 (2 & 3) International Journal of Refugee Law 279-301.