The Refugee in International Law

by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill; Jane McAdam

• ISBN13: 9780192536501
• ISBN10: 0192536508
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2021-09-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Author Biography

Guy Goodwin-Gill, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford, ,Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW,

Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill is Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford. he was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988, and was President of the Media Appeals Board of Kosovo from 2000-2003. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law and has written extensively on refugees, migration, international organizations, elections, democratization, and child soldiers.

Jane McAdam is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW, and the leader of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Refugees & Migrants. Professor McAdam is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Research Associate at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, an Associated Senior Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, and a Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative in London, and was a non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC from 2012-16. In 2017-18, she will be a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Refugee in International Law and the Legal Aspects of Forced Migration
Part 1: Refugees and International Protection
2. Refugees Defined and Described
3. Determination of Refugee Status: Analysis and Application
4. Loss and Denial of Refugee Status and its Benefits
Part 2: Asylum
5. Non-Refoulement in the 1951 Convention
6. Protection under Human Rights and General International Law
7. The Concept of Asylum
Part 3: International Protection
8. International Institutional Protection
9. Protection and Solutions
10. Treaty Standards and their Implementation in National Law
Part 4: 'Forced Migration' and Related Protection Needs
11. Internally Displaced Persons
12. Statelessness and Stateless Persons
13. Displacement related to Disasters and/or the Impact of Climate Change