The Free Movement of Persons within the African Union and Refugee Protection
May 25, 2020 Dr. Marina Sharpe RefLaw, Editorial Advisory Panel Assistant Professor of International Studies, Royal Military College Saint-Jean 1. Introduction There are moves ongoing in Africa to...
View ArticleToward Principles for Refugee Claims Based on Unenforced Persecutory Laws
November 10, 2020 Samuel Rubinstein Third-year student at the University of Michigan Law School Introduction Established principles of refugee law fail to adequately consider the full scope of harm...
View ArticleIntroducing the RefLaw Primer Series
March 18, 2021 RefLaw Team Over the next few months, RefLaw will be spotlighting a new blog series designed to introduce refugee law to a lay-audience and make this complicated, fascinating area of...
View ArticleRefLaw Primer: Alienage
March 18, 2021 Elisabeth Brennen Third-year student at the University of Michigan Law School What is the element? The alienage element of the refugee definition requires that a refugee be outside of...
View Article“They Pretend Not to Hear”: Unpacking the European Union’s Use of Libya as a...
April 12, 2021 Min Young Park Master’s Candidate, Sciences Po In February 2021, Libya will enter its tenth year of civil war. With a split government, a robust illegal arms trade, thousands of...
View ArticleReplacing a Good Faith Approach with a Well-Founded Fear Approach
May 25, 2021 By Emily Harris Third-year student at the University of Michigan Law School Introduction The 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 protocol which updated the Convention defines refugee.[1]...
View ArticleThe Concept of ‘Protection’ by Non-State Actors in the Country of Origin and...
CJEU Case C-255/19, Secretary of State for the Home Department v. O A July 16, 2021 By Dr. Marina Kaspar, LL.M. (University of Michigan Law School); Teaching and Research Associate, Department of...
View ArticleNarrowing Article 1(D)’s Interpretation to Expand Access to Asylum for...
July 28, 2021. By Betsy L. Fisher [1]. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (“Refugee Convention”) defines those who are refugees and benefit from the Convention, while also listing...
View ArticleMore Power, Less Accountability: The Need for Reform of Frontex Procedures on...
August 13, 2021 By Evan Harary I. Introduction The role of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (“Frontex”) is growing. Within the next few years, it will command 10,000 officers and a budget of...
View ArticleMigrant Deaths in the Mediterranean and the Failure of the European Union
September 1, 2021 Tina Al-khersan Third-year law student at the University of Michigan Law School. In 2011, a dinghy with 72 migrants traveling from Libya to Lampedusa ran into a series of challenges...
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