Kirsten McConnachie is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of East Anglia and Research Associate of the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, UK. Sarah Singer is Professor of Refugee Law at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Programme Director of the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, UK.

• Introduction, Kirsten McConnachie (University of East Anglia, UK) and Sarah Singer (University of London, UK)Part A: The Refugee Definition1. Canada (Attorney General) v Ward [1993]: Refugee Law’s Parthenon, Hugo Storey (IARMJ-Europe, UK)2. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Khawar [2002]: Protection for Refugee Women Through Transnational Jurisprudence and Feminist Advocacy, Natasha Yacoub (UNHCR, UK)3. The Diary of a Strategic Litigation Lawyer. HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) [2010]: Beacon of Hope, or Template for Exclusion, S Chelvan (Inner Temple, UK)4. Nawras Bolbol v Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal [2010]: When is a Palestinian Refugee a Convention Refugee? Dallal Stevens (University of Warwick, UK)5. Pushpanathan v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) [1998]: Excluding (Suspected) Criminals from Refugee Protection, Sarah Singer (University of London, UK)Part B: Rights Of Refugees6. R v Uxbridge Magistrates Court and Another ex parte Adimi [1999]: ‘Article 31 Must Henceforth be Honoured’, Kirsten McConnachie (University of East Anglia, UK)7. Refugee Rights Adrift: Haitian Interdiction and the Long Term Effects of Sale v Haitian Centers Council [1993], Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota, USA)8. Hirsi Jamaa and Others v Italy [2012] and the Prohibition on Pushbacks, Elspeth Guild (University of Liverpool, UK)9. MSS v Belgium and Greece [2011]: The Interplay between Non-Refoulement and Refugee Protection, Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and Paul McDonough (University of Bologna, Italy)10. Kituo Cha Sheria and Others v The Attorney General [2013]: Betwixt Executive Opposition and Judicial Affirmation of Refugee Rights, Samuel Berhanu Woldemariam (University of Newcastle, Australia)Part C: Future Directions In Refugee Protection11. Protection from Conflict: Sufi and Elmi v UK [2011], Christel Querton (University of the West of England, UK)12. Pacheco Tineo Family v Bolivia [2013]: Human Rights and Procedural Guarantees for Refugees in the Americas, Liliana Lyra Jubilut, Camila Marques Gilberto (Universidade Católica de Santos, Brazil) and Flávia Oliveira Ribeiro (University of Cologne, Germany)13. Namah v Pato [2016]: Constitutional Challenges in Offshore Destination States, Maria O’Sullivan (Deakin Law School, Australia)14. R (on the Application of AAA and Others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023]: The Limits of Externalisation and the Failed UK–Rwanda Arrangement, Nikolas Feith Tan (University of Melbourne, Australia)15. Ioane Teitiota v New Zealand [2020]: Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change Through International Protection Law, Bruce Burson (New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal)

Professors Singer and McConnachie have brought together a group of experts to address leading cases on international refugee protection that shape practice globally. These clear pieces of analysis are woven together expertly by the editors so that readers are presented with a holistic understanding of refugee protection and how that has developed over time across the world.