Structure and Content

Accessing Source Material

Adapting The Reader to Specific Course Needs

Technical Advice

Acknowledgments

Reader Feedback

Editors

Structure and Content

The Reader is divided into six sections: Introduction to International Refugee Law, The International Framework for Refugee Protection, The African Framework for Refugee Protection, The Asian Framework for Refugee Protection, The European Framework for Refugee Protection and The Latin American Framework for Refugee Protection. Each section contains the relevant hard and soft law, the most important cases decided by national or international courts and tribunals, and a carefully selected set of academic commentaries.

To facilitate teaching and stimulate critical discussion, the Editors highlight the main legal and policy debates that address each topic, as well as the main points that should be drawn from the assigned reading. In many sections of the syllabus, readers may also access Editor’s Notes, which contain more detailed commentary and suggestions for teaching in a given subject area.

Because of the depth, scope, and flexibility of the Reader, it is now being accessed in several continents by over 20,000 users. In this edition, The Reader has ‘universalized’ by introducing new regional legal sections focusing on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Alongside the English language publication, adapted language editions will be launched in French, Russian, and Spanish. The Editorial Board hopes that with these new developments, The Reader can move towards an effective regional approach to refugee legal education that will overcome language and geographical barriers and can effectively serve a larger community of asylum experts worldwide.

The Reader first deals with the international refugee law regime and its foundations: the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the expanding mandate of UNHCR and regional developments which have a bearing on the universal perception of the rights and duties of forced migrants. The concepts and the processes are analysed in light of the formative hard and soft law documents and discussed in an up-to-date, high standard and detailed academic commentary. Issues underlying the global dilemmas of refugee law are tackled, taking into account developments in related areas of human rights and humanitarian law, as well as research advances in the field of migration.

In addition to the examination of the classic problematique of international refugee law, The Reader also presents the major regional frameworks for refugee protection. The new African section includes the core legal instruments for refugee protection in Africa and focuses on the central legal and policy challenges in their implementation. East Africa is presented in the first of sub-regional case studies. Additional studies of refugee protection in Northern, Western and Southern African will be forthcoming in the 6th edition of The Reader. The Asian section presents the framework of protection on a continent where most States are not signatories to the 1951 Convention. It offers an overview of selected national refugee laws and policies on the continent and explores some of the broader protection challenges in the region. The European section presents the detailed pan-European asylum system that is under construction and that is creating regional norms and standards in the area of asylum that have been, and will continue to be, looked to by policy makers around the world. This section contains an excellent collection of the central instruments that are shaping regional law and policy. They are current up until October 2008. The final section considers the distinctive framework of refugee protection that has emerged in Latin America, presenting the regional instruments and jurisprudence alongside a thematic examination of internal displacement in Latin America that is explored in the context of a case study of Colombia.

While we have attempted to design The Reader so that users across jurisdictions, and with varying objectives, can select their own focus for the material, it is important that central themes of The Reader should not be discarded in this à la carte approach to refugee law.

Prior to the launch of the adapted language editions of The Reader, translated syllabi of the English edition will be made available on-line. The Reader syllabus has been translated into Spanish (downloadable in a PDF format), and French and Russian translations will be following soon.

Accessing Source Material

Most of the core documents and materials contained in The Reader are accessible in their full text format to all users. Core readings can be downloaded from The Reader website. As there are a large number of core readings that are accessible in The Reader, we recommend that the readings should only be selectively printed. Professors may wish to assign their students segments of the assigned readings, and many of the documents, and particularly lengthy legal instruments, can be effectively reviewed on-line. In addition, the Editors have included citations to extended readings, which are not downloadable, for those who wish to study certain topics in more depth. In general, the extended readings are less central to an understanding of the topic, but on occasion copyright restrictions have required the Editors to categorize an important (new) reading as “extended”.

One of the significant advantages of an on-line Reader is that it is able to provide access to instruments, documents and cases in their entirety, offering a rich source of material for academic writing. It should be noted that for purposes of citation, however, the process of downloading articles in PDF format does not always translate the page numbers of the original publication. Hence, please consult the full citation that appears in the syllabus to ensure accuracy.

The Reader uses James C. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status (Toronto: Butterworths, 1991) and G. Goodwin-Gill and J. McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) as core texts. The Reader is able to provide open and full access to the assigned pages of The Law of Refugee Status. While it is likely that many university professors and students will have access to the Goodwin-Gill and McAdams 2007 third revised edition of The Refugee in International Law in their libraries or university bookshops, the Editors are aware that many of our users may not. These users, however, will still benefit from full access to the text of the assigned reading from the second edition of Goodwin-Gill’s The Refugee in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). Hence, the Editors have included parallel citations for the 3rd and 2nd editions of The Refugee in International Law throughout The Reader to ensure that all can follow the core readings in the syllabus regardless of resources.

The Editorial Board and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee would like to thank Oxford University Press and its authors for their invaluable support for making refugee legal education accessible across the globe. We would also like to thank Cambridge University Press and other publishers of the secondary literature included in The Reader, as well as all of the authors whose works we have selected. Because of their generous support we are able to provide password-protected access to these documents to professors teaching refugee law and legal clinics in regions of the world with a yet developing asylum system. More information can be obtained by contacting the Hungarian Helsinki Committee at the email listed at the bottom of the page.

Adapting The Reader to Specific Course Needs

Editorial recommendations for how class time should be allocated to cover each of the respective subject areas, and their sub-topics, are provided below for a 48- hour course, as well as 24- and 12-hour modules. A copy of the complete syllabus can be downloaded and adapted for teaching purposes. Each of the sections of the complete syllabus, and their respective sub-topics can be directly accessed on the site. In the chart below, each of the major topics included in the syllabus are presented. The full text of the syllabus and the relevant source material for the assigned readings can be accessed in The Reader. For more detailed directions, see the section Technical Advice below.

Recommended hours for module teaching

* The allocation of hours across the respective regions will vary according to focus of the course.

Technical Advice

To begin, you are advised to download the complete Syllabus of The Refugee Law Reader. The complete Syllabus provides you with both a general and a detailed overview of The Reader’s structure and the documents included therein. The PDF format enables you to easily print out the Syllabus and use it as a general reference document. You can create your own syllabus or list of readings by simply copy-pasting the relevant citations into your own word processing system – the PDF format will ensure that the original form of the Syllabus remains unmodified.

To access a specific section of The Refugee Law Reader, click on the relevant section titles and subtitles in the left hand menu. The accompanying section of the Syllabus will then appear on the screen followed by the list of downloadable documents. Most of the documents are easily available in PDF format by simply clicking on the small PDF icon under the title of the chosen document.

The vast majority of The Reader’s documents are freely downloadable; however, some documents require authorization (a password) and are limited to refugee law clinics. Requests for password by other users are examined on an individual basis. Users should note that some documents and articles in the retrieval section, primarily those assigned as Extended Readings, are not yet accessible, as the publication permissions are pending. When publication permission is received for select articles, the respective links will be activated.

If you wish to identify documents by publisher, author, or title, you can do so easily by using the search engine of The Refugee Law Reader. For further guidelines on how to search The Reader, please consult the relevant text available on the search website.

Acknowledgments

Each edition of The Reader expands upon the contributions of prior editors. This is particularly the case with members of the editorial board who were involved in the creation and development of the previous editions. We would like to thank above all Dr. Rosemary Byrne, Associate Professor of International Law and the Director of the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, Trinity College, Dublin, who provided wide-ranging expertise and has been a source of great inspiration to all of us as the Editor-in-Chief of The Reader’s first five editions. Her leadership was instrumental in creating the universalised on-line refugee law resource that exists today in four languages. We would also like to thank the following prior editors:

Dr. Ekuru Aukot, the Director of the Committee of Experts on the Review of the Constitution in Kenya; Jean-Claude Forget, retired UNHCR official; Darina Mackova, International Human Rights Lawyer at ACUNS; Eugen Osmochescu, International Finance Corporation, Belgrade; and Steve Peers, Professor of Law at the University of Essex.

The Refugee Law Reader has developed through the dynamic participation of many experts in the field of asylum, both internationally and within the regional network of refugee law clinic. We would like to thank the following persons for their valued contributions to the creation of The Reader:

Ágnes Ambrus, Oldrich Andrysek, Deborah Anker, Frank Emmert, Lucia Fulmekova, Juris Gromovs, Anamaria Gutiu, Barbara Harrell- Bond, Romanita Iordache, Dajena Kumbaro, Sean Loughna, Gregor Noll, Imre Papp, Judit Tóth, Blagoy Vidin.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee would like to thank the following persons for their kind cooperation in obtaining the publication permissions:

Frankie Edozien (The African), Diane Jones (Amnesty International), John Gordon (Boston College International & Comparative Law
Review), Gaby van Rietschoten (Brill Academic Publishers/Martinus Nijhoff), Ken Battle (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), Mélanie McKinnon (Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board), Linda Nicol (Cambridge University Press), Roger Errera (Honorary Judge of the Council of State, France), Margarita Minkova (Centre for European Policy Studies), Information Office of the House of Lords, J. Oloka-Onyango (East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights), Ana
Lopez Fontal (ECRE), Maral Bedrossian (European Policy Centre), Beata Kulpaczyńska (Publications Office of the European Union), Kelly Pitt (Forced Migration Review), Matthew Putorti (Fordham International Law Journal), Linda Davidson and Dr. Rolph K. Jenny (Global Commission on International Migration), Hans Zell (Hans Zell Publishers), Richard Hart and Rachel Turner (Hart Publishing), William Mead (Home Office, UK), Christina Bell (Human Rights Watch), Vincent Bernard (ICRC), Judith Russell (Institute for Jewish Policy Research), Edmund Jennings (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre), Liesbeth van de Meeberg (International Association of Refugee Law Judges), Sharon Waters (Irish Refugee Council), Shaun Johnson, (LexisNexis Canada Inc.), Ranabir Samaddar (Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group), George Nasinyama (Makerere University), Mathura Yadav (Manak Publications), P.E. de Morree (Meijers Committee), Rachel Wilson (The Middle East Journal), Michelle Mittelstadt (Migration Policy Institute), Edwin Abuya (Moi University), Tom Scheirs (Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights), Maureen Fulton (The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution), Gilbert Loescher (Oxford University), Ben Kennedy (Oxford University Press), Chris Payne (Oxford University Press), Emma Thomas (Oxford University Press), Julie Sitney (Population and Development Review), Megan Prock (Physicians for Human Rights), Rüdiger Köppe (Recht in Africa), Negin Dahya (Refuge), Moses A. Nsubuga (Refugee Law Project), Dana Adams (Russell Sage Foundation), Tony Bunyan (Statewatch), Russel King (Sussex Centre for Migration Research), Jacky Challenor and Peter Chare (Sweet & Maxwell), Philip van Tongeren (T.M.C. Asser Press), Denise Blackett (Victoria University of Wellington Law Review), Gert De Nutte (VUBPRESS Brussels University Press), Arzu Celalifer Ekinci (Uluslararasi Hukuk ve Politika), Andrej Mahecic (UNHCR Bureau for Europe), Barbara Miltner (University of Cambridge), Perry Cartwright (University of Chicago Press), James C. Hathaway (University of Michigan Law School), Alison Seiler (U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants), Simone Fennell (Wolf Legal Publishers), Bonnie Doyle (The Yale Journal of International Law).

The following Hungarian Helsinki Committee staff members, affiliates and friends contributed to the completion of The Reader:

Nuria Arenas, Judit Bagdany, Reyes Castillo, Gábor Gyulai, Awet Haile, Andrew James Horton, Raluca Iagher, Nino Kemoklidze, Boyan Konstantinov, Tamás Kovács, Ferenc Kőszeg, Petr Kutílek, Marina Lourenco, Alba Marcellán, Mike Matheson, Priyanca Mathur Velath, Fiona McKinnon, Márta Pardavi, Syed Qadri, Julie Ranger, Erik Reho, Julie Reynolds, Daniel L. Robbins, Barbara Salmon, Susannah Scott, Courtney Schusheim, Moira Smith, Rakhmadjon Sobirov, Ewoud Swart, Elvíra Szabó, Tímea Szabó, Szabolcs Tóth, Ivy Wong.

Reader Feedback

One of the advantages of producing an on-line resource is the editorial capacity to update and review materials at more frequent intervals than published texts would allow. For this purpose, we encourage you to send the Editors any suggestions that you may have for improving The Reader.

We would also like to include current case law as it develops. If you are aware of important jurisprudence that is available in English, French, Russian or Spanish, we would be very appreciative if this could be brought to our attention.

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Editors

Editor in Chief
Maryellen Fullerton, Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA

Editorial Board
Rosemary Byrne, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
B.S. Chimni, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
François Crépeau, Université de Montréal, Canada
Maryellen Fullerton, Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA
Madeline Garlick, UNHCR Brussels, Bureau for Europe, Belgium
Elspeth Guild, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lyra Jakuleviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Boldizsár Nagy, ELTE University, Hungary
Luis Peral, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Spain
Jens Vedsted-Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Editorial Staff
Anikó Bakonyi, Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Editor in Chief

Maryellen Fullerton, Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA
Maryellen Fullerton is Full Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA. Her areas of expertise include asylum, immigration, and refugee law, with research focusing, in particular, on comparative refugee law. Her world view and teaching methods have been shaped by her academic commitments, first as a Fulbright Scholar in Belgium and Germany, later as a German Marshall Fund Fellow in Hungary, and as a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Spain. Among her recent works are her co-authored casebooks, Immigration and Citizenship Law: Process and Policy (7th edn. 2012) and Forced Migration: Law and Policy (2007). In addition to her academic research and scholarly publications, she served as a rapporteur for Human Rights Watch/Helsinki on several human rights fact-finding missions to Germany. She has been active in the International Law Association on the Committee on Internally Displaced Persons and on the Committee on Refugee Law (American Branch). For her work with law students representing asylum seekers, she was awarded the Migration and Refugee Services’ Volunteer Service Award for Assistance to Refugees. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Duke University, pursued graduate studies in Psychology at the University of Chicago, and then studied Law at Antioch School of Law, from which she received her J.D. degree. After her law studies she worked as a judicial clerk for Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and then served as a judicial clerk for Judge Francis L. Van Dusen, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She joined the faculty of Brooklyn Law School in New York in 1980, where she has been a professor of law since 1985.

Editorial Board

Rosemary Byrne, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Rosemary Byrne is Associate Professor of International Law and the Director of the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice at Trinity College Dublin. Recently she completed a five year term as a Human Rights Commissioner at the Irish Human Rights Commission, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences-Po) and the China-EU Law School, China University of Political Science and Law. She has been a Government of Ireland Research Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Programme. Her research is in the areas of comparative refugee law and policy and international criminal law. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Bhupinder Chimni, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
B.S. Chimni is Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is the author of International Refugee Law: A Reader, one of the main international textbooks in the field. His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee law. He served for three years as Vice Chancellor of the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences and has been a Visiting Professor at the International Center for Comparative Law and Politics, Tokyo University, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law, Heidelberg, and a Visiting Scholar at the Refugee Studies Center, York University, Canada. He served as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period of 1996–2000. He is on the editorial board of several national and international journals including the Indian Journal of International Law, International Studies, International Refugee Studies, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal & Refugee Survey Quarterly. Professor Chimni is part of a group of scholars who self-identify as the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholars.

François Crépeau, Université de Montréal, Canada
François Crépeau is a Full Professor and holds the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law and is the scientific director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. He is guest professor at the Université catholique de Louvain (2010–2013). He has participated at many conferences, published numerous articles, and written and edited five books: Les migrations internationales contemporaines – Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalisation (2009), Penser l’international, Perspectives et contributions des sciences sociales (2007), Forced Migration and Global Processes – A View from Forced Migration Studies (2006), Mondialisation des échanges et fonctions de l’État (1997) and Droit d’asile: De l’hospitalité aux contrôles migratoires (1995). He is a fellow of the Institute for Research in Public Policies (IRPP) and heads the ‘Mondialisation et droit international’ collection at Éditions Bruylant-Larcier (Brussels). He is a member of several editorial boards: Journal of Refugee Studies, International Journal of Refugee Law, Refuge, Droits fondamentaux, Refugee Law Reader. He was a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2008–2011.

Madeline Garlick, UNHCR Bureau for Europe, Brussels, Belgium
Madeline Garlick is the Head of the Policy and Legal Support Unit in the Bureau for Europe of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Prior to her appointment to this post in 2009, she served for five years as Head of UNHCR’s Liaison Unit to the EU Institutions. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Cambridge University, UK, as well as an LL.B. (Honours) in general law and B.A.(Honours) in politics and German language and literature from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, Australia, where she has practiced in various legal fields, including advice and representation for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. In her previous career experience, she has worked for ‘Justice’, the British Chapter of the International Commission of Jurists, after which she worked for three years in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees and for the Office of the High Representative. She has also served with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), as a member of the Secretary-General’s negotiating team, which sought to facilitate a resolution to Cyprus’ political conflict, from 1999–2004. Madeline Garlick serves as an Editor in her personal capacity, and the views expressed or implied in The Reader do not necessarily represent the position of the United Nations or UNHCR.

Elspeth Guild, University of Nijmegen,The Netherlands
Elspeth Guild studied classics in Canada and Greece and law in London. She defended her thesis on European Community immigration law at the University of Nijmegen, where she now is the Jean Monnet Professor ad Personam of European Immigration Law at the Radboud University Nijmegen and at the Law Faculty, Queen Mary University of London. She is associate senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels and a partner in the immigration department at the London law firm, Kingsley Napley. She also teaches at Sciences Po in Paris. She has published widely in the field of immigration and asylum law and policy in Europe. Her most recent monograph is Security and Migration in the 21st Century, Polity 2009. Professor Guild is the UK member of the Odysseus Network of academic experts in European Immigration and Asylum Law. She is frequently invited to advise both the European Commission and the Council of Europe on immigration and asylum issues.

Lyra Jakuleviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Lyra Jakuleviciene is a Professor at Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania and has over ten years of teaching experience in international law (human rights, refugee and treaty law in particular). She served in the capacities of Legal Adviser and later as Liaison Officer of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lithuania (1997–2003) and lately as the Head of United Nations Development Programme in Lithuania. Her international experience includes participation in the Söderköping process where she was responsible for the establishment and management of a Cross Border Cooperation Secretariat in Kiev, Ukraine in 2003. In this capacity Ms. Jakuleviciene has been working on facilitation and promotion of co-operation among ten countries in the Western CIS and the Central European/Baltic region on migration, asylum and other cross-border related issues, as well as on bridging the implementation of the UN priorities and strategies with the changing environment due to the EU enlargement process in the countries on both sides of the future EU external borders. Since 2006 she has been serving as an expert in building the European Asylum Curriculum, which was taken over by the European Asylum Support Office in 2011, as well as engaged in a number of studies and research projects on refugees, including the study on transposition of the ten EU asylum directives (2006–2007) and the study for the European Parliament on the future Common European Asylum System (2009–2010) among them. She holds a Doctor of Social Sciences (law) degree and is an author of over a dozen of articles on refugee protection, as well as the first book in Lithuania on the rights of refugees. Ms. Jakuleviciene is a permanent member of the Odysseus Academic Network in Europe and the Observatory on Free Movement of Workers.

Boldizsár Nagy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
Boldizsár Nagy read law and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European University (since 1992) he has been engaged both in governmental and non-governmental actions. He acted several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry fo Foreign Affairs, the Council of Europe and UNHCR and was counsel for Hungary in the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project case before the International Court of Justice. He was one of the founders of the European Society of International Law and sat on the board until 2010. He is member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and of the European Journal of Migration and Law. In 2004 Boldizsár Nagy joined the Odysseus academic network for legal studies on asylum and immigration in Europe. In recent years he has delivered lectures in Amsterdam, Beijing, Brussels, Cambridge, Geneva, Moscow, among others. (For further details see: www.nagyboldizsar.hu)

Luis Peral, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France
Luis Peral holds a Ph.D. in Law, M.A. in Law of the European Union, M.A. in Political Sciences & International Relations (Universities Complutense and Carlos III of Madrid), and Diploma in English Law (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK). From 1992 to 2004, he taught Public International Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, where he organised a Masters Course on Cooperation to Development, Migration and Humanitarian Action. From 2004 until he joined the EUISS as Research Fellow in 2008, he worked at the Center for Constitutional Studies of the Ministry of the Presidency under the Ramón y Cajal Research Program of the Spanish Government, whilst he was Senior Research Fellow at FRIDE and Director of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Programme of the International Center of Toledo for Peace (CITpax). He has been visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, and a lecturer at several universities and institutions, such as the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (Sanremo) and the European Inter-University Center (Venice). He founded the Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law in 2006. His research and publications, particularly, ”Éxodos masivos, supervivencia y mantenimiento de la paz”, are focused on International Refugee Law, Humanitarian Law, European Human Rights Law, Peacekeeping and Peace building. At the EUISS, he deals with the EU contribution to multilateralism and in particular to the international security system, EU-Asia relations with a focus on India, and international responses to conflict situations such as that of Afghanistan.

Jens Vedsted-Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Jens Vedsted-Hansen earned his LL.M and LL.D. from the University of Aarhus, where he is a Professor of Law. Having worked as a research scholar at the University of Aalborg, Faculty of Social Sciences, and as assistant and associate professor at the University of Aarhus Law School, he became a research fellow at the Danish Centre for Human Rights in 1993. In 1997 he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen as an associate professor. Since 1999 he has been a professor of human rights law at the University of Aarhus Law School. He has participated in various international research projects as a contributor, commentator or panel member. He is a member of the Odysseus Academic Network of Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, and of the editorial board of European Journal of Migration and Law. He served as a member of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board from 1987 to 1994. His research interests include administrative law, immigration and refugee law, and human rights law.

Editorial Staff

Anikó Bakonyi,