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Refugee Law Initiative
About Us
The RLI is the only academic centre in the UK to concentrate specifically on international refugee law. Find out more about us here.
About UsProjects
Find out more about our current and past research projects, including Asylum and Migration and Criminality, Refugees and Migrants.
ProjectsEvents
Our seminars, lectures and conferences bring together world-leading scholars and practitioners. Most events are free and open to the public.
EventsMA in Refugee Protection
Our MA allows students to acquire a rigorous legal, practical and theoretical understanding of refugee protection and forced migration.
MA in Refugee ProtectionRLI blog
The RLI blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration is a platform to publish content from our networks in a conversational and informal setting.
RLI blogEvents
RLI 4th Annual Conference: Rethinking the 'Regional' in Refugee Law and Policy
Monday, 3 June
The RLI Annual Conference offers a dedicated annual forum internationally to share and debate the latest research and cutting-edge developments in ...
Revisiting Accountability of Humanitarian Actors and Researchers: Lessons from field-research with refugee populations in East Africa
Thursday, 13 June
Seminar Series: Humanitarian Accountability in Displacement Contexts
News
RLI/CSC offering 5 full MA Scholarships - Oct 19 intake
Tuesday 15 January 2019
RLI is pleased to be partnering with Commonwealth Scholarships to offer five full scholarships for the October 2019 intake to our MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies.
Full details below (click on image to access links).
Publications
Publications
The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law
Dr Jessica Schultz
Under what circumstances can a state refuse refugee status to a person whose risk of persecution exists in only part of her country of origin? This book is the first monograph to examine the treaty basis and criteria for the ‘internal protection alternative’ (IPA), an exception to refugee status increasingly invoked by state parties to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol.