Madeline Gleeson is a lawyer and research associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales. She specialises in international human rights and refugee law, with a focus on offshore processing, the law of state responsibility, extraterritorial human rights obligations and the protection of children. She has extensive experience working with forcibly displaced people around the world, in countries including Cambodia, Indonesia and South Africa, and has worked with organisations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Jesuit Refugee Service in Cambodia and the International Catholic Migration Commission in Geneva. She holds a Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, which she completed after being awarded the prestigious John Monash scholarship.