Legal Items: Cessation Clauses, Climate Displacement, Economic Persecution, Particular Social Group, Piracy & Asylum Claims

"Forced to Flee and Forced to Repatriate? How the Cessation Clause of Article 1C(5) and (6) of the 1951 Refugee Convention Operates in International Law and Practice," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 44, no. 3 (May 2011) [full-text]

"Germany Homeschoolers as 'Particular Social Group': Evaluation Under Current U.S. Asylum Jurisprudence," Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, vol. 34, no. 1 (2011) [full-text]

"A New Standard for Evaluating Claims of Economic Persecution Under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 44, no. 2 (March 2011) [full-text]

"Pirates and Impunity: Is the Threat of Asylum Claims a Reason to Allow Pirates to Escape Justice?," Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 2 (forthcoming, January 2011) [text via SSRN]

"Review of Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives," New Global Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (June 2011) [text via bepress; registration required]

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