9th International Refugee Law Seminar Series
Leaving No One Behind: A Look at the Global Compact for Refugees
Speaker: Professor Pene Mathew, Griffith University
Date: 19 November 2018
Niger: The Making of a Model Transit Country
Speaker: Daniel Howden, Refugees Deeply
Date: 7 November 2018
Lecture Series: Current Thinking in Refugee Law
State Protection and Internal Relocation
Speakers: Mark Symes (Garden Court Chambers) and Hugo Storey (Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Date: 10 January 2019
Persecution and Convention Reason
Speakers: Mark Symes (Garden Court Chambers) and Hugo Storey (Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Date: 4 December 2018
Well Founded Fear
Speakers: Mark Symes (Garden Court Chambers) and Hugo Storey (Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Date: 23 October 2018
RLI 3rd Annual Conference - Keynote Presentations
Refugee Law Initiative
3rd Annual Conference: ‘Refugee Protection in a Hostile World?’
18-19 July 2018
'Refugees, Intolerance and Racism: Contemporary Reflections'
Speaker: E. Tendayi Achiume (UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance)
'Prospects for the Global Refugee Compact in a "Hostile World"
Speaker: Jean-François Durieux (Refugee Law Initiative)
'Refugee Law in Times of Crisis: Reflections on Academic and Political Trajectories'
Speaker: Professor Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Raoul Wallenberg Institute)
Special IDP Workshop - Keynote Presentation
Refugee Law Initiative
Special IDP Workshop: 'Revitalising IDP Research'
20 July 2018
'Framing Policy-Relevant Research on IDPs: The GP20 Process'
Speaker: Cecilia Jimenez-Damary (UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs)
8th International Refugee Law Seminar Series
The UN's 'Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework': Actually a 'Contingent Refugee Assistance Project'
Speaker: Professor James Hathaway (University of Michigan)
Date: 21 May 2018
Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
Speaker: Professor Susan Akram (Boston University)
Date: 8 March 2018
Authority and Affect in Immigration Detention: A Critical Account
Speaker: Professor Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford)
Date: 20 February 2018
Allocation of Competence in Asylum Matters under International and EU Law
Speaker: Professor Marcello Di Filippo (University of Pisa)
Date: 25 January 2018
The Impact of Brexit on UK Asylum Law
Speaker: Colin Yeo (Garden Court Chambers / Free Movement blog)
Date: 27 November 2017
The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North
Speaker: Dr Christina Oelgemoller (Loughborough University)
Date: 16 November 2017
Refugee Protection in the United Kingdom Beyond Brexit: The Perils of Australian Exceptionalism
Speaker: Linda Kirk (ANU)
Date: 25 October 2017
RLI 2nd Annual Conference - Keynote Presentations
Refugee Law Initiative
2nd Annual Conference: ‘Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants’
5 - 7 June 2017
'Refugee Regime 2.0: How the World Has Changed and What It Means for Refuge'
Professor Alexander Betts (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
'Prospects for the Global Compact on Migration: Towards a Mobility Agenda?'
Professor Francois Crepeau (UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants)
'Repercussions of the European 'Crisis' for Global Politics on Migration and Development'
Professor Loren Landau (African Centre for Migration and Society, Witwatersrand University)
'Masses and Power: What Does the Future Hold?'
Dr Volker Turk (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR)
From Frontex to the European Border and Coast Guard: Responsibility for human rights violations at the borders.
RLI End-of-year event
Speaker: Mariana Gkliati (Leiden University)
Tuesday 13 December 2016
7th International Refugee Law Seminar Series
The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future directions for global refugee policy
Speaker: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Thursday 9 February 2017
Between Conflict and Survival: Unravelling the drivers of migration across the Mediterranean in 2015
Speaker: Heaven Crawley
Tuesday 17 January 2017
Refugee Protection in Mixed Migration - a UNHCR perspective pre and post summit
Speaker: Sarah Elliott
Date: 1 December 2016
‘One Protocol yet to be drafted’? What treaty law can and cannot do to advance refugee protection
Speaker: Jean Francois Durieux
Monday 24 October 2016