Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

 A Gentle Reminder to UNHCR: Deciding Refugee Cases Is Not Just about Efficiency (RSD Watch, Aug. 2013) [text]

"Pulling the Trigger: An Analysis of Circuit Court Review of the 'Persecutor Bar'," Columbia Law Review, vol. 113, no. 5 (June 2013) [full-text]

Reforming the Immigration Courts of the United States (Birdsong's Law Blog, Aug. 2013) [text]

Why Edward Snowden Never Had a Right to Asylum (OUP Blog, July 2013) [text]

LGBT-related:

"Developing a Jurisprudence of Transgender Particular Social Group," Chapter in Fleeing Homophobia: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum (Routledge, May 2013) [preprint via SSRN]

"Identity and the Sexual Minority Refugee: A Discussion of Conceptions and Preconceptions in the United Kingdom and Ireland," Human Rights Brief, vol. 20, no. 3 (Spring 2013) [full-text]

"LGBT Identity in Immigration," Columbia Human Rights Law Review, vol. 45 (Forthcoming, 2013) [full-text via SSRN]

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