Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Events:

Access to Asylum: Current Challenges and Future Directions, Prato, Italy, 29-30 May 2014 [info]
- Early bird registration is now open and runs through 3 March 2014; a draft conference programme is also available.

RSC Seminar Series: Human Rights, Asylum and Refugee Protection, Oxford [info]
- Note the forthcoming seminars in February and March; podcasts are provided for past seminars (see below for most recent).

Publications:

Law Relating to Refugee Rights – Global Legal Collection Highlights (In Custodia Legis Blog, Jan. 2014) [text]

The Provision of Free and Subsidised Training Available to Lawyers and Advisers who Represent Asylum Seekers in Refugee Status Determination Procedures: A Review (AMERA UK, Oct. 2013) [text via FRLAN]

Le Statut Protecteur des Réfugiés est-il en Sursis? (LexBase, Jan. 2014) [text]

Turning Wrongful Convictions into Rights? Asylum Seekers and the Criminal Law, Oxford, 29 Jan. 2014 [access]
- Follow link for podcast of this RSC seminar.

UK: Supreme Court Rules that 'Substantial Countervailing Reasons' Are Required to Reject Asylum Applicants Already Granted Refugee Status by UNHCR (EDAL, Jan. 2014) [text]

Vulnerability in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg Observers Blog, Jan. 2014) [text]

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