Regina Jefferies is an Assistant Professor in the Law, Diversity and Justice program at Fairhaven. She is a Scientia PhD Scholar with the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, an Affiliate of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, and a member of the International Journal of Refugee Law, Case Law Editorial Team. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, and a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  Regina earned a Master of Studies from the University of Oxford and a Juris Doctorate from Arizona State University.

Since 2007, Regina has worked in the fields of immigration, refugee, and international human rights law in the United States and Australia. As an attorney in private practice in Arizona, she served as the Arizona Chapter Chair and on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has litigated cases in a variety of fora, including U.S. District Court and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Her op-eds have appeared in Just Security, The Conversation, and the Sydney Morning Herald and, in 2018, she earned the National Advocate of the Year Award for her work in opposition to the Trump Travel Ban.

Areas of Research

International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, Comparative Immigration Law, Administrative Law, Research Methods and Methodology, Social Network Analysis, Legal Compliance, Law and Society, Australia, Canada, Asia-Pacific