"Acknowledgements" [2018] ELECD 688; in Crock, Mary; Benson, B. Lenni (eds), "Protecting Migrant Children" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) xx

Book Title: Protecting Migrant Children

Editor(s): Crock, Mary; Benson, B. Lenni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786430250

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Acknowledgements The two editors of this book are best described as `hands-on' academics. We have both maintained our credentials as lawyers after moving into the academy from legal practice. A co-founder (in 1989) of Melbourne's first community legal centre specializing in immigration and refugee law (known now as Refugee Legal), Mary has taken a particular interest in the plight of migrant children over many years. In 2006, Lenni began holding trainings for pro bono attorneys at New York Law School to expand the pool of attorneys prepared to represent child migrants. In 2012, as the numbers of unaccompanied minors arriving at the south west border of the United States grew exponentially, she founded the Safe Passage Project, a law school clinic combined with a non-profit representing hundreds of children via direct and mentored pro bono services. This book has involved considerable work and commitment on the part of many people. We are deeply grateful to each of our contributors and for their patience in reviewing and revising their work so as to give a sense of unity and fluency to what would otherwise be a very diverse collection. Research for this book was made possible through the support of private donor, Ms Judy Harris; research funding by New York Law School and private donor, Sheila Wellington; and before that, the Australian Research Council, Linkage Project LP100200596 `Small Mercies, Big Futures: Enhancing Law, Policy and Practice in the Selection, Protection and Settlement of Refugee Children and Youth'. ...