RLI 15th Anniversary Conference

Recordings

Please find below the recordings of the keynote presentations from the 15th Anniversary Conference that took place from 2-4 June 2025:

Presentations

Please find a selection of presentations below from the 15th Anniversary Conference:

Session I 

• ‘International Refugee Law as a “Self-contained Regime”?’ - Elias Faller (University of Graz, Austria)

• ‘Implications of Refugee Travel Documents in the Context of Complementary Pathways’ – Professor Geoff Gilbert (University of Essex, UK)

• ‘Outcomes of Complementary Pathways on the Future of the Beneficiaries’ – Dr Zvezda Vankova (Lund University, Sweden)

Session II

• ‘Walking the Walk or Just Talking the Talk? Promoting Equality and Diversity in Research and Knowledge Exchange with Refugee Women’ – Dr Moira Dustin (University of Sussex, UK)

• ‘Why We Shouldn’t Talk about Climate Refugees’ - Dr Saphia Fleury (University of Hull, UK)

• ‘In Search of Solutions: Reimagining Conventional Approaches to Resolving Forced Mobilities in a World of Loss and Damage’ - Steven Miron (Refugee Law Initiative, UK)

• ‘The Cassandra Complex in Gender-Based Asylum Procedures: Listening as a Feminist Method in Research on Rape Mythology’ - Lore Roels (Ghent University, Belgium)

• 'Statelessness: Between Migration and Nationality Law' - Bronwen Manby (School of Advanced Study) 

Session III

• ‘Mapping Legal Borders: A Network Analysis of Regional Differences in ECtHR Article 8 Migration Jurisprudence’ - Tatiana Cernicova-Dragomir (West University of Timisoara, Romania)

• ‘Criminalizing Asylum in Ireland’ - Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne (Maynooth University, Ireland)

Session IV

• ‘Beyond Victims and Perpetrators: The Silencing of WWII’s Ethnic Germans in Forced Displacement Studies’ - Jessica Aldrich Strassman (Samuel Merritt University, USA)

• ‘Bridging the Gap between Academic Researchers and Civil Society: Ensuring a Usefulness and Purpose to Research that Places the Refugee at the Centre – An NGO Practitioner’s Perspective’ - Bethany Cachia (Jesuit Refugee Service, Malta)

• ‘The Legal Opportunity Structures of Migrant Rights Litigation: Dead Ends and Strategies to Overcome’ - Hannah Katz (University of Haifa)

• ‘The Politics of Legal Support in Precarious Transit Zones: Navigating Uncertainty and Deterrence at the Franco-British Border’ - Maud Martens (Ghent University, Belgium)

• ‘The Visibility of Self-Reliance within an International Refugee System. Assessing how Forced Migration Studies is Constituted Sociologically and Institutionally through the Voices of the Local Communities’ A and B - Miriam Mylvaganam (University of Bradford, UK)

• ‘Protection from Conflict: Sufi and Elmi v UK [2011]’ – Dr Christel Querton (University of the West of England, UK)

• ‘Understanding and Assessing Strategic Refugee Rights Litigation through Refugee-Led Research in Australia and Across Borders’ - Nhu-Duyen Jessica Vuong (Australian National University, Australia)

Session V

• ‘Risk in EU Migration and Asylum Law: A Biopolitical Approach’ – Dr Veronica Corcodel (NOVA University, Portugal)

• ‘The Future of Refugee Law: Refugee Between Law and Literature’ - Abida Younas (University of Warwick, UK)

Session VI

• ‘Who Gets Included or Excluded? Protection Thresholds and Labelling Politics among Displaced Persons in Nigeria’ - Tosin Durodola and Sarah Pajeau (University of Edinburgh, UK)

• ‘Assessing Balanced Out, Proud And Loud Queer Citizenship In Asylum Claims’ - Jaba Kaplanishvili (University of Westminster, UK)

• ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Subsidiary Protection for War Risks Claims’ - Mark Niklas Cuno (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)

• ‘Vulnerability to Re-Trafficking or Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk’ – Dr Maja Grundler (Northumbria University, UK)

• ‘Studying International Refugee Law from the Prism of Rightlessness: The Case of Externalization’ – Dr Adel-Naim Reyhani (University of Bologna, Italy)