RLI 5th Annual Conference
Keynote presentations
Is 'Ageing Gracefully?’ an Ageist Critique?”
Professor James C. Hathaway (James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan, USA)
“The 1951 Convention at 70: A Postcolonial Perspective”
Professor B.S. Chimni (Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, India)
“States and the Refugee Convention: Circumventing, but not Blatantly Disregarding”
Professor Fatima Khan (Director of the Refugee Rights Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Panel presentations
Panel Session 1
- Session 1A: Injecting New Life into International Refugee Law
- Session 1B: Non-Signatory States and the Refugee Convention: Snapshots from the Middle East and South Asia
- Session 1C: Under-Explored Obligations and Accountability Mechanisms in the Externalisation of Asylum Policies
Panel Session 2
- Sesion 2A: Refugees, the Convention and Access to Work and Health
- Sesion 2B: New Pathways for Implementing the Refugee Convention - the Role of International Institutions
- Session 2C: What Does 'Internal Displacement' Mean? Opening Pandora's Box. An Analysis from the Latin American Network on Internal Displacement
Panel Session 3
- Session 3A: More than its Constituent Parts? How to Understand the Refugee Convention
- Session 3B: Externalisation, Responsbility Sharing, and the Global Compact on Refugees
Panel Session 4
- Session 4A: Application of the Refugee Convention's Cessation Provisions - New Practices of Temporary Protection
- Session 4B: Refugee Policiy and Politics
- Session 4C: Practices of Refugee Legal Aid in Middle Eastern Protection Contexts
Panel Session 5
- Session 5A: Diverse Scenarios - Does the Convention Matter for the Legal Protection for Refugees?
- Session 5B: Empirical Approaches to Refugee Law
- Session 5C: The Contemporary Role of the Global Refugee Regime in Sub-Saharan Africa
Panel Session 6