Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items

Events & opportunities:

Job announcement: Project coordinator, "The Law of Asylum in the Middle East and Asia: Developing Legal Engagement at the Frontiers of the International Refugee Regime," Centre for Applied Human Rights [info]
- Apply by 10 February 2017.

Discussion panel: The Refugee Crisis and International Criminal Law: Are Australian Agents and Corporate Actors Committing Crimes against Humanity?, London, 13 February 2017 [info]

Job announcement: Departmental Lecturer in International Human Rights and Refugee Law, Refugee Studies Centre [info]
- Apply by 13 February 2017.

CFP: Migration Law Interest Group, Works-in-progress session at the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, 12-15 April 2017 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 15 February 2017.

Job announcement: Law and Policy Researcher, ICRC [info]
- Apply by 16 February 2017.

Resources:

Constrained by its Roots: How the Origins of the Global Asylum System Limit Contemporary Protection (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2017) [text]

"The Fact of Xenophobia and the Fiction of State Sovereignty: A Reply to Blocher and Gulati," Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online (Forthcoming, 2017) [full-text via SSRN]

International Refugee Law: Yesterday, Today, but Tomorrow? (Blackstone Chambers, Jan. 2017) [text]

"Non-Refoulement and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: State Sovereignty and Migration Controls at Sea in the European Context," Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2017) [free full-text]

Refugee Protection in Mixed Migration: A UNHCR Perspective Pre- and Post-summit, London, 1 Dec. 2016 [access]
- Scroll down to locate.

Responsibility of the First World Nations to Protect Refugees: Non-Refoulement as an Obligation Erga Omnes (LSE Human Rights Blog, Jan. 2017) [text]

"Some Observations on the Legal Responsibility of States and International Organizations in the Extraterritorial Processing of Asylum Claims," Italian Yearbook of International Law Online, vol. 25, no. 1 (2016) [postprint]

*"Sovereignty and Migration in the Doctrine of the Law of Nations: An Intellectual History of Hospitality from Vitoria to Vattel," European Journal of International Law, vol. 27, no. 4 (2016) [full-text via SSRN]

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