Law of Refugee Status: James C. Hathaway

Hathaway, James C.

Foreign & International Law

Lexis Pub.

The definition of refugee embodied in the United Nations' 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol has been subscribed to by over a hundred states. Many of them, including Canada, have chosen to incorporate the definition in their domestic legislation, where it has worked its influence on decisions covering the granting of asylum or other forms of protection.

The Rights of Refugees under International Law

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees as set by the UN Refugee Convention. In an era where States are increasingly challenging the logic of simply assimilating refugees to their own citizens, questions are now being raised about whether refugees should be allowed to enjoy freedom of movement, to work, to access public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members. Doubts have been expressed about the propriety of exempting refugees from visa and other immigration rules, and whether there is a duty to admit refugees at all. Hathaway links the standards of the UN Refugee Convention to key norms of international human rights law, and applies his analysis to the world's most difficult protection challenges. This is a critical resource for advocates, judges, and policymakers. It will also be a pioneering scholarly work for graduate students of international and human rights law.

Cambridge University Press

Constitutional Law

The Law of Refugee Status

The first edition of The Law of Refugee Status (published in 1991) is generally regarded as the seminal text on interpreting the refugee definition set by the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention. Its groundbreaking analysis served as the bedrock for not only much judicial reasoning, but also for a burgeoning academic literature in law and related fields. This second edition builds on the strong critical focus and human rights orientation of the first edition, but undertakes an entirely original analysis of the jurisprudence of leading common law and select civil law states. The authors provide robust responses to the most difficult questions of refugee status in a clear and direct way. The result is a comprehensive and truly global analysis of the central question in asylum law: who is a refugee?

Foster, Michelle

Do states have a duty to assimilate refugees to their own citizens? Are refugees entitled to freedom of movement, to be allowed to work, to have access to public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members? Indeed, is there even a duty to admit refugees at all? This fundamentally rewritten second edition of the award-winning treatise presents the only comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention and international human rights law. It follows the refugee's journey from flight to solution, examining every rights issue both historically and by reference to the decisions of senior courts from around the world. Nor is this a purely doctrinal book: Hathaway's incisive legal analysis is tested against and applied to hundreds of protection challenges around the world, ensuring the relevance of this book's analysis to responding to the hard facts of refugee life on the ground.

Product Description 
Do states have a duty to assimilate refugees to their own citizens? Are refugees entitled to freedom of movement, to be allowed to work, to have access to public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members? Indeed, is there even a duty to admit refugees at all? This fundamentally rewritten second edition of the award-winning treatise presents the only comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention and international human rights law. It follows the refugee's journey from flight to solution, examining every rights issue both historically and by reference to the decisions of senior courts from around the world. Nor is this a purely doctrinal book: Hathaway's incisive legal analysis is tested against and applied to hundreds of protection challenges around the world, ensuring the relevance of this book's analysis to responding to the hard facts of refugee life on the ground. 
 Review 
Praise for the First Edition: ‘… painstakingly researched, cogently argued, and beautifully written … An instant classic on the topic of refugee rights.’ Penelope Mathew, American Journal of International Law\nPraise for the First Edition: ‘… the authoritative comprehensive commentary of the Convention. As usual, the strength of Hathaway's approach lies in the precision of his legal analysis.’ Catherine Phuong, Human Rights Law Review\nPraise for the First Edition: ‘If there is one book in the area of international refugee law of which it can be properly said that it is indispensable for everybody, working either in practice or academically with international refugee law, it is this new book by Hathaway … It will remain for a long time the fundamental opus of international refugee law.’ Kay Hailbronner, International Journal of Refugee Law 
 Book Description 
The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world. 
 About the Author 
James C. Hathaway is James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and founding director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, University of Michigan. He is the author of The Law of Refugee Status (1991; 2nd ed. 2014, with M. Foster) and editor of Reconceiving International Refugee Law (1997) and Human Rights and Refugee Law (2015). He is also the founding Editor of Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies.

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Law of Refugee Status: James C. Hathaway

Law of Refugee Status: James C. Hathaway

The Rights of Refugees under International Law

The Rights of Refugees under International Law

The Law of Refugee Status

The Law of Refugee Status

The Rights of Refugees under International Law

The Rights of Refugees under International Law