13 October 2020

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunity:

Call for registration: New Frontiers of Refugee Law in a Closed World, 17-20 November 2020 [info]
- "UNSW’s Kaldor Centre Conference 2020 brings together leading thinkers from around the world with diverse perspectives to explore what the post-pandemic world will look like for refugees and other forced migrants." The conference will be online.

Blog posts:

Refugee Rights Across Regions: A Comparative Overview of Legislative Good Practices in Latin America and the EU (RLI Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Views of Legal Recognition and its Consequences for Their Integration (RLI Blog, Oct. 2020) [text]

*"The World Needs a New Refugee Convention," Foreign Policy, 11 Oct. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Anomaly upon Anomaly: Refugee Law and State Disintegration," International Journal of Refugee Law (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- Draws on the Libyan example.

"Complementary Protection and Encampment," Human Rights Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

"COVID-19: A Watching Brief," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 32, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]
- This section four updated and freely available analyses that were originally published on the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law's ‘COVID-19 Watch’ blog, the aim of which is "to examine the role of international law in protecting refugees, asylum seekers, and other displaced people during the pandemic." 

"Forced Displacements of Refugees Caused by the States of Origin at the ICJ: The Role of Diplomatic Protection as a Vehicle to Advance Human Rights," Chapter in Migraciones, Seguridad y Derecho: Una relación compleja en busca de un difícil equilibrio (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & UNESCO, 2019) [text via SSRN]
- Uses the situation of the Rohingya as a case study.

Guide on How to Establish a Refugee Law Clinic (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Aug. 2020) [access]
- Updated guide available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

The Responsibility to Protect at 15: A Promise Unfulfilled (Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A Short History of International Refugee Law: The Early Years," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

"Understanding the Crisis of Refugee Law: Legal Scholarship and the EU Asylum System," Leiden Journal of International Law, First View, 2 Oct. 2020 [open access]

Multimedia:

Imprisoning Schindler: Responding to the Legal Vulnerability of Those Who Aid Refugees, Presentation at the ASIL Virtual Annual Meeting, 25-26 June 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.

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