Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law

Jean-Pierre Gauci is director at The People for Change Foundation and Research Coordinator in International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He holds a PhD in Law from King’s College London focusing on trafficking-based asylum claims. Mariagiulia Giuffré is Lecturer in Law at the Department of Law and Criminology at Edge Hill University. She obtained a PhD (Doctor Europaeus certificate) from the School of International Studies, Trento University. Her research focuses on Migration and Refugee Law. Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi is a Ph.D. candidate and Researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a Researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). Her current research focuses on the Common European Asylum System.

• IntroductionProf. Guy Goodwin-Gill ‘Current Challenges in Refugee Law’Section 1 Accessing protection: Law and Policy Jessica Schultz The European Court of Human Rights and Internal Relocation: An Unduly Harsh Standard?Mariagiulia Giuffré Access to Protection: Negotiating Rights and Diplomatic Assurances under Memoranda of UnderstandingDaniel Ghezelbash Lessons in Exclusion: Interdiction and Extraterritorial Processing of Asylum Seekers in the United States and AustraliaLuisa Feline Freier A liberal paradigm shift? A Critical Appraisal of Recent Trends in Latin American asylum legislationSection 2 Scope of Protection: the 1951 Refugee Convention and BeyondStefania Barichello The evolving system of refugees’ protection in Latin AmericaJean-Pierre Gauci Why Trafficked Persons need Asylum Meltem Ineli Ciger Revisiting Temporary protection as a Protection Option to Manage Mass Influx SituationsAndrea Pacheco Pacífico, Érika Pires Ramos Humanitarian Asylum for Forced Migrants: the case of Haitians’ arrival in BrazilEvangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi Qualifying for International Protection in the EU: New Understandings of the 1951 Convention and beyondSection 3 Content of Protection: Rights of refugees and asylum seekers Emma Borland Unmerited Restrictions on Access to Justice for Asylum SeekersReuven (Ruvi) Ziegler Out-of-Country Voting: The Predicament of the Recognised RefugeeEmily Darling Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Family Reunion Programme - a Comparative Study with the European Union

"Overall, then, a vital collection of writing on international protection that warrants being drawn on by lawyers and policy makers confronting the global refugee flows of the current era." – Mark Symes, in: The Free Movement blog, 23 February 2016