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Associate Professor Daniel Ghezelbash holds dual appointments at Macquarie Law School and Macquarie University's Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, where he leads the Law and AI stream within the AI-enabled Processes Research Centre. His interdisciplinary work bridges legal scholarship, computational methods, and social justice advocacy, with particular focus on leveraging technology to improve legal services and combat systemic discrimination.
His research interests span computational approaches to judicial decision-making, comparative refugee law, and AI-driven access to justice solutions. As a pioneer of jurimetrics in the Australian context, he develops innovative methodologies combining legal analysis with data science to examine patterns in asylum decision-making and identify systemic biases. His work on technology-assisted legal service delivery has led to practical implementations including Wallumatta Legal, a not-for-profit law firm providing low-cost family law advice through technological solutions.
Professor Ghezelbash has received multiple institutional awards including the 2018 Learning and Teaching Award, 2018 Research Excellence Award (ECR Category), and the 2021 Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award. His book Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World (Cambridge University Press, 2018) has established him as an internationally recognized authority on global asylum policy diffusion.
His current research supervision focuses on migration/refugee law, legal technology, and strategic litigation. He leads several major research initiatives including the ARC DECRA project on fast-track asylum procedures, the 'SAR Project' examining maritime search and rescue protocols, and the MQRAS 21 project addressing cognitive biases affecting First Nations people in legal systems. Through his role as founder and director of the Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic, he connects academic research with practical legal service delivery.
