THE DYNAMICS OF REFUGEE PROTECTION IN AN

ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
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Emerging Issues for the Teaching of Refugee Law

THE REFUGEE LAW READER

November 12-14, 2008

AGENDA

November 12,
Wednesday

18:30 Launch of the 5th Edition of The Refugee Law Reader

Keynote Address by George Okoth-Obbo, Director of International Protection, UNHCR

19:30 Cocktail Reception

November 13, Thursday

9:30– 10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

Rosemary Byrne, Senior Lecturer, Trinity College; Editor-In-Chief, The Refugee Law
Reader

10:15 – 12:15 First Session: Redirecting Research: Interdisciplinary Responses to Legal Questions

Speakers: François Crépeau, University of Montréal

Helene Lambert, University of Westminster
Eiko Thielemann, London School of Economics and Political Science

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 15:00 Second Session: Re-evaluating EU Harmonization Midstream

 Speakers: Zeta Georgiadou European Commission Directorate-General Justice,
Freedom and Security
Madeline Garlick, UNHCR Regional Representation to the European Union
Boldizsár Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 – 17:15 Third Session: Intersections with Forced Migration: Security and Development

Speakers: Jean-Francois Durieux, Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford

Barabara Harrell-Bond, Refugee Programme, Fahamu
Luis Peral, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris

17:15 – 18:00 Keynote Address by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, All Souls College, University of Oxford

November 14, Friday

9:30 – 11:00 Emerging Research issues 1: Workshop for Research Presentation

Thomas Spijkerboer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Freedom and Constraint: Asylum Judgements of the European Court of Human Rights

Lieneke Slingenberg, Vrije Universitet Amsterdam

Reception of asylum seekers and the 1951 Refugee Convention

Grusa Matevzic, Central European University

Compliance of EU Member States with International Refugee and Human Rights law
after
the implementation of exclusion clauses of Qualification Directive

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:45 Emerging Research issues 2: Workshop for Research Presentation

Maria-Teresa Gil-Bazo, Newcastle Law School

The Transformation of State Sovereignty and the Status of Refugees in European Law

Sari Sirva, Turku University

Reuniting Refugee Families- the Finnish Approach

Cosmin Corendea, Golden Gate University School of Law

Human Security in the Pacific: the climate Refugees of Sinking Islands

12:45 – 13:00 Closing Remarks

13:00 Lunch