Associate Professor Daniel Ghezelbash is passionate about using technology to enable lawyers to do their jobs faster and better and to counter systemic discrimination and bias in the legal system. His research transcends traditional disciplinary barriers, drawing on everything from law, computing, political science, behavioural psychology and data science.

He leads the Law and AI stream at the Macquarie AI-enabled Processes Research Centre and has been involved in establishing a number of initiatives using technology to increase access to justice, including Wallumatta Legal, a not-for-profit law firm which uses technology to provide low-cost legal advice to family law litigants that would otherwise be unrepresented, and Tech4Justice, which aims to harness the power of complaint making to combat systemic discrimination. He is also one of the pioneers of computational and jurimetrics approaches to studying judicial decision-making in the Australian context.

Daniel is also an internationally recognised scholar of comparative refugee and immigration law. His ARC DECRA project examines fast-track asylum policies, and whether it is possible to design procedures which are both fair and efficient. He has also published widely on the way restrictive asylum policies have spread around the world. This is the topic of his book, Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He has spent time as a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School.

Daniel is a practicing refugee lawyer and founder and director of the award-winning Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic. He is Special Counsel at the National Justice Project, and sits on the boards of a number of not-for-profit legal centres, including Refugee Advice and Casework Services (Vice-President) and Wallumatta Legal.

Daniel regularly features and published in domestic and international media outlets on refugee, migration, access to justice and legal technology issues. In 2021, he was selected for the ABC Top 5 Humanities Media Residency.

Daniel is available to supervise research students working in the areas of domestic, international or comparative migration and/or refugee law and policy; legal technology and access to justice; the not-for-profit legal sector, and issues around strategic litigation and advocacy.