Dr Alice Edwards is Senior Legal Coordinator and Chief of the Protection Policy and
Legal Advice Section within the Division of International Protection, at the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. She has previously been on the
law faculties at the universities of Oxford and Nottingham, and she remains Research
Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, a Research Fellow of St
Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Fellow of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre. She has
previously worked, inter alia, for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
in London, Food for the Hungry International in Mozambique, and UNHCR in various
locations, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, and Rwanda.
Dr Edwards has published widely on issues relating to refugees, displacement and
stateless persons; was the expert adviser to the UN Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women on questions of displacement and statelessness; and was the
lead amicus in a brief to the US Supreme Court on questions of sexual equality and
statelessness (Flores-Villar v. United States of America, 2010). Her publications include
Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press,
2010) and a co-edited collection, Human Security and Non-Citizens: Law, Policy and
International Affairs (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her forthcoming work is a
co-edited collection entitled Nationality and Statelessness under International Law.
She holds a PhD from the Australian National University, an LL.M in Public International
Law with Distinction from the University of Nottingham, and a LL.B (Honours) and a B.A in
Political Science from the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is admitted to practice
as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of
Australia. She is a past recipient of the Arthur C. Helton Fellowship of the American
Society of International Law and winner of the 2008 Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship
in the Human Rights of Women.
Books
Articles
Contributions to Books
Article 17, Commentary on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (2011)
Article 18, Commentary on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (2011)
Commissioned Studies
Unpublished Papers
