23 January 2013

North American Legal Items

Last minute opportunity:

Asylum Decisions by Immigration Judges: Latest Findings and Reports, Online, 24 January 2013 [info]
- Free webinar that will discuss recent findings regarding asylum cases in the U.S.

Publications:

Comment on BC Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Smuggling Law (Canadian Council for Refugees, Jan. 2013) [text]
- See also related news story.

The Inefficiencies of American Refugee Law as Highlighted by the Current Plight of Mexican Immigrants, Paper presented at 47th Annual Conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Boston, 14-18 Nov. 2012 [text]

The Impact of the Lack of Legal Representation in the Canadian Asylum Process (UNHCR Canada, Nov. 2012) [text]

Rachidi Ekanza Ezokola v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (Supreme Court of Canada, Jan. 2013) [info]
- See also related news story, CARL factum and CCLA factum.

Reclassifying "Terrorists" as Victims: Integrating Terrorism Analysis into the Particular Social Group Framework of Asylum (ExpressO, Jan. 2013) [text]

"What You Are Depends on Where You're Standing: How Expanding Refugee Protections to the Internally Displaced through the Refugee Act of 1980 Violates International Law," University of Pittsburgh Law Review, vol. 74, no. 1 (2012) [full-text]

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