Peter Billings

Dr Peter Billings is a Professor at the School of Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research interests are in particular areas of public law: administrative law, immigration and refugee law, social welfare law and human rights law. In 2016 he received an Australian Award for University Teaching - Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (Pro Bono Centre). Since 2010 he has received five teaching excellence awards within the School of Law for outstanding course/teacher evaluations, and in 2011 was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Equity and Diversity Award (UQ) for the Asylum and Refugee Law Project. Recent publications include: P Billings (ed), Regulating Refugee Protection through Social Welfare: Law, Policy and Praxis (Routledge, 2023); An Annotated Guide to the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) (LexisNexis, 2023) (with N Jones); Ch. 10 "Immunised and Indifferent to Indefinite Incarceration, in M Peterie, Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration (Routledge, 2025); and "Causing a Stir: Unwanted Aliens and the Cauldron of Crimmigration Controls Post NZYQ" (UQLJ (2025) forthcoming). Crimmigration, Administrative Law, Administrative Justice, Refugee Law, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community, Domestic human rights law, Indigenous Studies, International and comparative law, International humanitarian and human rights law, Law and Legal Studies, Migration, asylum and refugee law, Public law

[2025] Causing a stir: unwanted aliens and the cauldron of crimmigration controls post-NZYQ. University of Queensland Law Journal, 44 (3), 1-37. doi: 10.38127/uqlj.v44i3.14845 [2023] An annotated guide to the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld). Chatswood, NSW Australia: LexisNexis. [2023] Regulating refugees through welfare: Australia's hostile response to unauthorised maritime arrivals. Regulating refugee protection through social welfare: law, policy and praxis. (pp. 20-46) edited by Peter Billings. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003298595-4 [2026] Lim after NZYQ: Delimiting constitutional constraints on state power to punish non-citizens. University of Western Australia Law Review, 54 (1), 1-51. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.6835278 [2025] Immunised and indifferent to indefini