14 May 2021

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Opportunities:

Discussion panel: Refugee Protection and Responsibility-sharing: The Quest for International Solidarity, 17 May 2021 [info]

Job announcement: Position as postdoc researcher in international law and EU at the Department of Law, Aarhus University [info]
- Candidate sought for "ASILE: Global Asylum Governance and the European Union’s Role" project. Apply by 20 May 2021.

Online launch: Univ. of London's Refugee Law Clinic, 20 May 2021 [info]

Panel discussion: Reflecting on The Geneva Convention: The State of Global Refugee Trends and Refugee Policy, 20 May 2021 [info]

Book launch: The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, 25 May 2021 [info]

Discussion panel: Davantage que des droits: l'avenir de la CGR de 1951, 27 May 2021 [info]
- Note: See details under the "Annonce" column on the right. 

Call for registration: Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70, RLI 5th Annual Conference, 9-11 June 2021 [info]
- Note: The draft programme is now available.

Lecture: Confronting the colonial structure of international migration law, 17 June 2021 [info]

Blog posts:

Moving Refugee Protection from Regional Divergence to International Convergence (CARFMS / ACERMF Blog, April 2021) [text]

Rethinking international protection: Rescue at sea as a model? (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]

Time for a Reset to Address the Principal Cause of Asylum (RLI Blog, April 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles: 

"The Authority of International Refugee Law," William & Mary Law Review, vol. 62, no. 4 (2021) [full-text]

"The Eritrean Military/National Service Programme: Slavery and the Notion of Persecution in Refugee Status Determination," Laws, vol. 10, no. 2 (April 2021) [open access]
- "The article focuses on how 'slavery,' 'servitude' and 'forced labour' under article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights ('ECHR') have been interpreted in the British and Swiss case-law."

"Hyper-Legalism and Obfuscation: How States Evade Their International Obligations Towards Refugees," American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 68, no. 3 (Sept. 2020) [free full-text]
- "The discussion is illustrated with examples from the United States, Australia, and Europe." Note: This article is free to read until 31 May 2021.

"‘The Makings of a Success’: The Global Compact on Refugees and the Inaugural Global Refugee Forum," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 32, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]
- Note: This article is free to read until 31 May 2021.

 "No Safety in 'Safe Third Countries': What Migration Ethics Can Tell Us about the Safe Third Country Agreements of North and Central America," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 9 (2021) [full-text]

"On building a boat (or, learning how not to teach refugee law)," Chapter in Teaching migration and asylum law: theory and practice (Routledge, Forthcoming) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the text is currently under embargo but a copy can be requested via the a/m link.

Multimedia:

Extraterritorial application of the non-refoulement principle, 27 April 2021 [access]

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