Bio
Satvinder Juss is Professor and Director of the MA Course in International Peace & Security in the Law School at King’s College London and specialises in International Refugee law and in Human Rights, Public law and Comparative Law. Professor Juss has taught at a number of Universities in the UK and the USA, including Harvard Law School and Indiana University in Bloomington. He regularly appears as a Barrister in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and has argued cases also in the House of Lords and the Privy Council. He was counsel in the foreign marriages case (involving Art. 12 right to marry) and in the ‘funeral pyres’ case (involving Art. 9 right to religious freedom) and sits as a part-time Judge. He was also Consultant in April 2009 to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in a programme funded by the British Embassy in Ankara, Türkiye, on issues of expulsion, re-admission and voluntary return of migrants, and in 2010, he advised the Government of Bermuda on legislation. He is also a member of the Working Group on Slavery at the Centre for Social Justice, which will report in 2013.
Publications/recent projects
- Detention and delusion in Australia's Kafkaesque refugee law (January 2017)
- Recognizing refugee status for victims of trafficking and the myth of progress (April 2015)
- The notion of complicity in UK refugee law (December 2014)
- Sikh cremations and the re-imagining of the clash of cultures (August 2013)