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Refugee Law Initiative

Welcome to the Refugee Law Initiative

The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) is the only academic centre in the UK to concentrate specifically on international refugee law.

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RLI Activities

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RECAP project

RLI focus: Humanitarian Accountability & Protection in Forced Displacement Contexts

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Podcasts

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RLI Mailing List

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MA 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 Protection

Internal Displacement

The Internal Displacement Research Programme promotes and facilitates research on internal displacement, including policy-relevant research.

Internal Displacement

Refugee Law Clinic

The UoL's Refugee Law Clinic provides pro bono legal advice for refugee clients based on a model of Clinical Legal Education for its diverse student body.

Refugee Law Clinic

Online Short Course

This newly established Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provides insight into the complex phenomenon of 'Refugees in the 21st Century'.

Online Short Course

RLI blog

The RLI blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration is a platform to publish content from our networks in a conversational and open-access setting.

RLI blog

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News

Refugee Law Initiative’s key role in building research capacity on ‘internal displacement’ in affected countries

Thursday 2 July 2020

The work of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has been boosted by two new grants (a total of £210,000) from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) to help build research capacity into the growing problem of internal displacement – people made homeless in their own countries.

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Publications

Chinese Refugee Law

Guofu Liu

Chinese Refugee Law offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readily accessible reference to Chinese refugee law. It focuses first on existing laws and practices relating to refugees in China, then offering a scholar's proposal for a law to handle with refugee affairs and implement the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. It examines both existing Chinese statutes and relevant international documents, drawing on and comparing Chinese and English language sources.

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