International Refugee Law Seminar Series

The Refugee Law Initiative of the SAS Human Rights Consortiuum is pleased to inaugurate the 3rd year of the seminar series on

International Refugee Law

These seminars provide a forum for the discussion and debate of cutting-edge research and contemporary legal issues in the field of refugee protection

12 Oct 2012, 5.30 pm: Professor Vincent Chetail,  Graduate Institute (Geneva)
The Relations between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law: A Systemic Perspective
Macmillan Hall, Senate House

22 Nov 2012, 5.30pm: Sir Nicholas Blake QC,  President, Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Country Guidance in the United Kingdom’s Upper Tribunal
Macmillan Hall, Senate House

22 Jan 2013, 5.30pm: Professor Colin Harvey, Queen’s University Belfast
Humanity and Legality: Rights of Refugees and Legal Mobilisation

Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal StudyALS
21 February 2013, 5.30pm: Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz, Aberystwyth University
The Limits of Refugee Law: Human Trafficking and Challenges to the International Protection Regime

Woburn suite, Senate House
March 2013, 5.30 pm: Professor Deborah Anker, Harvard University
Legal Change from the Bottom Up: The Development of Gender Asylum Jurisprudence in the United States
Room tbc, Senate House

May 2013, 5.30pm Dr Maria Teresa Gil-Bazo, Newcastle University
The Right to Asylum in the Practice of Latin American and African States
Room tbc, Senate House

ADMISSION FREE – ALL WELCOME

Convenor: Dr David James Cantor, Director, Refugee Law Initiative

Refugee Law Initiative Hub

The Refugee Law Initiative Hub is the new online network for the Refugee Law Initiative, at the Human Rights Consortium of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

 

The Refugee Law Initiative Hub will support sharing, collaboration and dissemination of information by academics and non-academics, refugee law scholars and practitioners.

 

Refugee Law Initiative affiliates and workshop members are invited to

• create an account on the Hub
• join interest groups
• participate in discussion forums

 

The Refugee Law Initiative is the only academic centre in the UK to concentrate specifically on international refugee law. The Refugee Law Initiative hosts seminars, workshops, short courses and other events to promote and facilitate cutting-edge research on the protection of refugees and other displaced persons. It leads and manages high-impact research, policy and training projects, and carries out consultancy work on refugee law and protection.

International Refugee Law Seminar Series

International Refugee Law Seminar Series
Human Rights Consortium Refugee Law Initiative


Tuesday 31 January 2012 5.30 pm
IALS, Council Chamber

Professor Stephen Meili, University of Minnesota
 “Comparative approaches to the Use of international human rights law in asylum cases in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States"

Tuesday 21 February 2012 5.30 pm

IALS, Council Chamber

Professor James C. Simeon, York University Toronto
"The supervision of international refugee law"

Tuesday 13 March 2012, 5.30 pm 
IALS, Council Chamber

S. Chelvan, No5 Chambers
 “The fast-developing field of LGBTI refugee law”

Thursday 10 May, 2012, 5.30pm
Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall

Professor Patricia Tuitt,  Birkbeck, University of London
“Refugees, Law and Postcolonial Theory”

Tuesday 5 June, 2012, 5.30pm

Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall

Professor Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex
“The law of exclusion from refugee status: recent developments”


Convenor: Dr David James Cantor, Director of the Refugee Law Initiative

With the support of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

ADMISSION FREE – ALL WELCOME

If you wish to attend any of the above please RSVP to RLI@sas.ac.uk

New seminar series on 'International Refugee Law'

New seminar series on 'International Refugee Law'

The Institutes of Advanced Legal Studies and Commonwealth Studies in collaboration with the UNHCR are pleased to announce a new seminar series on 'International Refugee Law'. The series has been inaugurated to mark the 60th anniversary of the UNHCR and the Refugee Convention.


Mr Roland Schilling, the UNHCR Representative to the UK, will open the seminar series on Monday 25 October at 5.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Following Mr Schilling's opening speech, Dr Alice Edwards (University of Oxford) will give the first seminar of the series on 'Rethinking the detention of asylum-seekers and other migrants: exploring the alternatives - a comparative perspective'.


All seminars are free to attend. All welcome. For further information on the series and forthcoming seminars please contact ials.events@sas.ac.uk