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Bassina Farbenblum is Practitioner in
Residence in the International Human
Rights/ Rule of Law Project. Her
practice includes litigation and
advocacy related to the application of
international human rights, with a
particular focus on the rights of
immigrant women in New Jersey.
Ms. Farbenblum graduated from the
University of New South Wales School of
Law, Sydney, Australia (Dean’s List)
with numerous awards. She received her
LL.M. from NYU School of Law as a Global
Public Service Law Scholar, and a Lionel
Murphy Postgraduate Scholar.
Ms. Farbenblum comes to Seton Hall from
WilmerHale, LLP. While a litigator in
private practice, Ms. Farbenblum argued
before the Third Circuit in the first
appellate case to consider the
national-security exception to asylum
under US law. She also represented
several leading human rights
organizations in an amicus brief before
the Third Circuit on the application of
the Refugees Convention under US
immigration law. Prior to private
practice, Ms. Farbenblum was a fellow
and consulting attorney with the
American Civil Liberties Union’s
Immigrants’ Rights Project, where she
worked primarily in the areas of
international human rights law,
immigrants' rights and national
security.
Before coming to the United States, Ms.
Farbenblum was a litigation attorney at
the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in
Sydney. She conducted several civil
rights test cases in Australian federal
and state courts, including a challenge
to the legality of indefinite
immigration detention, an age
discrimination action against the
defense forces and a case concerning
health data privacy. As a policy
advisor at the Australian Human Rights
and Equal Opportunity Commission, Ms.
Farbenblum wrote the policy on age
discrimination used by the Attorney
General in drafting Australia's age
discrimination legislation, and
co-authored reports on the application
of human rights in Australia. She also
spent several months working as a
consultant to a human rights
organization in Mumbai, India, and was a
graduate intern in the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights during law school.
Ms. Farbenblum writes and speaks on
issues related to international human
rights and national security. |
