The Limits of Refugee Law - A European Perspective

This public lecture is now available as: MP3 (please listen to the file above in three parts) and PDF (please see the contribution by Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill - as a courtesy to the presenter, please contact them for permission to refer to the text of their presentation for the purpose of further research - and an article by Associate Professor Jane McAdam on which her paper was based)

Refugee policy is a highly politicised and sensitive issue in contemporary Europe. Complicated by the dramatic expansion of the European Union, attempts to harmonise refugee law through a common asylum policy have met with mixed success. For those who fall outside the refugee definition, a connected ‘complementary protection’ mechanism has been adopted that is still in its infancy.

 
Drawing upon their recent research, Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill will consider the meaning of the right to asylum in the European Union, and Associate Professor Jane McAdam will examine the issues of individual risk, armed conflict and the standard of proof in complementary protection claims across the EU.
 
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. From 1997 – 2010 he was President of Refugee and Migrant Justice (formerly the Refugee Legal Centre). Professor Goodwin-Gill has written extensively on refugees, migration, elections, and child soldiers.
 
Dr Jane McAdam is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW. She is Director of Research in the School of Law, Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. Jane is the author of Complementary Protection in International Refugee Law (2007); co-author with Guy S Goodwin-Gill of The Refugee in International Law (3rd ed 2007); and the editor of Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security (2010) and Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2010).
 
To view the flyer for this event please see: Public Seminar
 
 

Date & time

  • Wed 29 Sep 2010, 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location

Sir Roland Wilson Building Lecture Theatre

Speakers

  • Guy S. Goodwin-Gill - Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford
  • Dr Jane McAdam - Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW

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