RLI 6th Annual Conference

Keynote presentations

"The 'Arc of Protection' and the Future Shape of the Global Refugee Regime" 
Professor Alex Aleinikoff (Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, New York, USA)

"Moving Beyond Refugee Law: Putting Principles on Climate Mobility into Practice" 
Professor Jane McAdam (Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Australia)

"Refugee Leadership and the Future of the Global Refugee Regime" 
Sana Mustafa (Director of Partnership and Engagement, Asylum Access)

Panel presentations

Panel Session 1

• Session 1A: Improving the Refugee Regime – Framing the Issues
  • Notes on 'Solutions are in the eye of the beholder: state interests, UNHCR and the global response to refugees' Brian Gorlick
• Session 1B: Agents of Change in the International Refugee Regime
• Session 1C: The Complementary Role of Other Legal Approaches in Protecting Refugees

Panel Session 2

• Session 2B: Reassessing Vulnerability in contexts of Displacement
• Session 2C: “Surrogacy and the Refugee Definition – Key? Minor? Irrelevant? Distraction?”

Panel Session 3

• Session 3A: “’External Processing’: Regional Approaches, Responsibility Sharing and Pathways to Protection”
• Session 3B: “Improving the Global Refugee Regime with Feminist Theory”
• Session 3C: “The Role of Community Sponsorship for Refugee Resettlement in Australia: Whither State Responsibility?”

Panel Session 5

• Session 5A: “Afghan Evacuations: Mixed Outcomes for the Global Refugee Regime?”
• Session 5B: “Non-Penalisation as a Building Block for Reform of Refugee Protection”
• Session 5C: “The Future of Complementary Pathways”

Panel Session 6

• Session 6A: “Asylum in a Late Sovereign World: The Application of Refugee Law in Overseas and Dependent Territories”
• Session 6B: “Chain-Externalisation of EU Migration Management Policies”
• Session 6C: “Alternative Forms of Protection in Africa”