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Professor Mary Crock is Professor of Public Law at the University of Sydney Law School and member of the Sydney Centre for International Law and Sydney Environment Institute. Holding BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) and PhD from Melbourne University, she has taught at Sydney Law School since 1996 with visiting appointments at Harvard, LSE, Oxford and other leading institutions.
Her research spans immigration, refugee and disability law with focus on vulnerable migrant groups. She has pioneered work on refugees with disabilities, presenting findings to the UN and influencing CRPD implementation. Current projects include Australia's IMPALA comparative migration law database and studies on CALD communities with disabilities.
Her 15 most recent publications reveal three dominant research trajectories: (1) Disability-refugee intersections (6 articles), particularly CRPD implementation challenges; (2) Child migration law (4 articles) addressing best practices for young asylum seekers; (3) Crimmigration policy analysis (3 articles) documenting Australia's restrictive enforcement trends. These works consistently apply human rights frameworks to migration governance.
- Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law
- AFR Women of Influence (2019)
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance Medal (2015)
- Affinity Intercultural Foundation Award (2016)
- Henry Giblett Award (2012)
- Best Lawyers in Australia listing (annual since 2008)
Professor Crock advises governments and UN agencies globally, having served as Senate inquiry adviser (2000), HREOC consultant, and Royal Commission consultant on child detention. She supervises doctoral candidates including Christian Offermanns on economic migration reform. Her IMPALA project coordinates migration law research across 12 countries through Harvard, LSE and University of Luxembourg partnerships. Fieldwork spans Indonesia, Uganda, Jordan and Turkey with UNHCR and NGOs including Amnesty International.
