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 Ms Mary Anne Kenny
Senior Lecturer
LL.M., LL.B.(Hons), B.Juris
Mary Anne Kenny has been employed at the MurdochUniversity law School since 1997. She was the Director of the School of Law ’s clinical legal education program at SCALES from 2000 – 2005 and was the Assistant Director from the establishment of the clinic until she was appointed the Director in 2000. She is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and the University of Iowa. She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1993 and has been a registered Migration Agent since 1997.
In 2006 she was appointed as a Commissioner to the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia.
Ms Kenny has taught in the Clinical Legal Education unit and the Advanced Clinical Legal Education Unit where she primarily supervised students in representing and advocating on behalf of asylum seekers. She has also taught International Perspectives on Women's Rights. In 2006 she will be teaching in the Graduate Certificate in Migration Law.
She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University and has taught a unit on Human Rights in Australian Law.
Primary areas of research interest are issues of gender and refugee status and separated children. In 2003 while on sabbatical she spent time at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Camberra and was a visiting academic at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and the Centre for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California (Hastings).
Ms Kenny has previously worked for Legal Aid in Perth and for the Youth Legal Service.
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2006 - present, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer
Commissioner WA Law Reform Commission |
| 2000 – 2005, Murdoch University |
Senior Lecturer/Clinic Director |
| 1997 – 2000, Murdoch University |
Lecturer/Assistant Clinic Director |
| 1996 – 1997, Youth Legal Service, WA |
Solicitor |
| 1992 – 1996, Legal Aid, WA |
Solicitor
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Awards:
Nominated for Senior Women Lawyer of the Year, WA Women’s Lawyers Association, March 2006
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The Murdoch University School of Law’s Clinical Program at the Southern Communities Advocacy Legal and Education Service (SCALES) was awarded the national Human Rights Award for Law in 2002 by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. |
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Finalist Career Achiever, International Woman’s Day Awards, WA Ethnic Communities Council, March 2003 |
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LL.M, University of Iowa, 1995
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LL.B.(Hons), University of Western Australia, 1992
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BJuris, University of Western Australia, 1991
Units taught and coordinated:
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LAW390 - Clinical Legal Education
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LAW385 - Advanced Clinical Legal Education
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International Perspectives on Women’s Rights
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- Nominated for Australian Awards for University Teaching 2001.
- Short-listed for the Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2007
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Domestic violence and refugee status: a comparative look at Australia, UK and New Zealand
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Unaccompanied/separated child asylum seekers
Book Chapters
- Kenny, M, Crock, M and Allison, F, “Children and Immigration and Citizenship Law” in Monahan, G; Young, L (eds) Children and the Law in Australia (LexisNexis, 2008)
- Immigration chapter in the “Sussex Street Law Handbook” (5th Ed) (Sussex Street Community Law Service, 2005)
- Kenny, M, Immigration Law, “Lawyers Practice Manual Western Australia” (Law Book Company, 2005)
- Kenny, M. (with L. Fiske & J. Ife), “Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Law” in Swain, P. (ed), In The Shadow Of The Law (2nd ed) (Federation Press, 2002)
Journal Articles
- Kenny, M, Pedersen, A, Hoffman, S and Briskman, L, “Working with Wasim: A convergence of community” (2008) Australian Community Psychologist (forthcoming)
- Kenny, M, “Cross-Cultural Communication in Immigration Practice” (2007) 33 Immigration Review 6
- Kenny, M, “The Nairobi Code: A client centred approach to ethical conduct” (2007) 35 Immigration Review 12
- Kenny, M & Fiske, L, “Marriage of convenience or match made in heaven? Lawyers and Social Workers working on asylum seeker cases” (2004) 10 Australian Journal of Human Rights 137-159
- Kenny, M., Styles. I & Zariski, A., “Looking At You Looking At Me Looking At You: Learning Through Reflection In A Law School Clinic”, (2004) ELAW Volume 11 No 1, http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/kenny111.html
- Kenny, M, Silove, D & Steele, Z, “Legal and ethical implications of medically enforced treatment of detained asylum seekers on hunger strike” (2004) 180 Medical Journal of Australia 237-240 (available online http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/180_05_010304/ken10552_fm.html)
- Kenny, M., “Terrorism and exclusion under the Refugee Convention,” (2003) 81 Reform 37 –42
- Kenny, M., “Force-feeding asylum seekers: Challenging the state’s authority to direct medical treatment” (2002) 27(3) Alternative Law Journal 107-111.
- Kenny, M., “Book Review: Borderline by Peter Mares”, (2001) 2(2) Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, 144-148.
- Kenny, M. & Flynn, M., “Mass Migration and Hong Kong: An Australian Perspectives” (2001) 26(4) Alternative Law Journal 182-184.
- Kenny, M. “Australia and the Refugees Convention 50 years on” (2001) 10(2) Human Rights Defender 20-22
- Kenny, M. & Copeland, A., “Clinical Legal Education and Refugee Cases: Teaching law students about human rights” (2000) 25(5) Alternative Law Journal, 252-253.
Law Reform Submissions
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Submission in relation to the DIMA Humanitarian Settlement Discussion Paper, November 2006, with the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University of Technology
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Submission in relation to the DIMA Discussion Paper 'Australian Citizenship: much more than a ceremony. Consideration of the merits of introducing a formal citizenship test' November 2006, with the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University of Technology
Law Reform Commission of WA Discussion Papers and Final Reports
Ms Kenny has been involved as a Commissioner in the following projects:
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