International Conference on Refugees and International Law:
The Challenge of Protection
Friday 15th & Saturday 16th December 2006
Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building
Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ
Friday 15 December
9:00 – 9:15 Registration & Coffee
9:15 – 10:00 Opening session
Prof Barbara Harris-White, QEH Director
Prof Roger Zetter, RSC Director
Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, University Research Lecturer in International
Refugee and Human Rights Law, RSC
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote Speech: Extra-Territorial Processing of Asylum Claims
from a General International Law Perspective
Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, All Souls College, Oxford
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Plenary: Transnational policies and legal implications
Joint Interception of Asylum Seekers in the Mediterranean Sea: Responsibility
Issues at Stake
Gregor Noll, Professor of Public International Law, University of Lund, Sweden
Human rights without borders? Extraterritorial state actions and the
applicability of human rights law
Dr Ralph Wilde, Reader in Public International Law, UCL, London, UK
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Concurrent Panels
• Panel 1: State obligations in transnational cooperation
The Use of Diplomatic Assurances and the Prevention of Prohibited Treatment
Nina Larsaeus, Legal Counsellor, The Migration Court, Stockholm, Sweden [the
views expressed are those of the author and they do not necessarily reflect
those of the organisation]
Whose Responsibility?: Refugees, Migrants and the Prevention of Torture and
Ill-Treatment
Loveday Hodson, Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester
• Panel 2: Cooperation between States: Refugee Protection in the
European Union
The cultural divide in refugee law: a comparison of the French and British
judiciary, Hélène Lambert, Lecturer, Brunel University
The Dublin Regulation vs the European Convention of Human Rights – A Non-Issue
or a Precarious Legal Balancing Act?
Christian Filzwieser, Independent Federal Asylum Senate, Austria
Temporary Protection Directive: is the high level of rights and benefits for
persons enjoying temporary protection reflected in national transposition
measures: the Netherlands and Germany as an example,
Karina Franssen, Centre for Migration Law, Faculty of Law, Radboud University
Nijmegen, Netherlands
New Approaches to Transcontinental Cooperation on Migration: What Consequences
for Refugee Rights?,
Luis Peral, Coordinador, Programa de Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos,
Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz (CITpax), Spain
16:00 – 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00
• Panel 1: Refugee Protection and International Criminal Law
Forced Displacement in International Criminal Law
Annabel Mwangi and Aimée Comrie
Trafficking and Smuggling of Refugees from a Human Rights Perspective
Tom Obokata, Queen’s University Belfast
• Panel 2: Protection in situations of armed conflict and occupation
Challenges of protection: children, the future, and unchartered IHL
Amelia Bookstein (and Ada Williams), Head of Humanitarian Policy, Save the
Children UK
The principle of non-refoulement of refugees in situations of armed conflict
or occupation
Professor Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law: Ongoing Displacement
and the Lack of Protection,
Lena El-Malak, PhD Candidate in International Law, SOAS, University of London
20:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 16 December
9:30 – 11:00 Keynote Speech: The Emerging Global State and the Global
Refugee Problem: Normative Models, Refugee Studies and Institutions
Professor Bhupinder S. Chimni, Vice-Chancellor, The WB National University of
Juridical Sciences, Calcutta,
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Keynote Speech: UNHCR’s Responses to Protection
Georges Okoth-Obbo, Director of UNHCR Division of International Protection
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Concurrent Panels
• Panel 1: Institutional responses to the protection of IDPs
Extending Rights Within Borders: IDP Protection and the International Society,
Maria Beatriz B. Nogueira, Research Assistant, Law Department, London School
of Economics
The role of National Human Rights Institutions in the protection of Internally
Displaced Persons following humanitarian disasters: the response of the
National Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the December
2004 tsunami,
Naresh Perinpanayagam, Human Rights Officer, OHCHR, Geneva
Human rights-based approach to humanitarian assistance – a tool to empower
internally displaced women?
Päivi Koskinen, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
• Panel 2: Global Governance
Displacement, Institutional Development and the Normative Environment: The
Case of the League of Nations and United Nations,
Phil Orchard, University of British Columbia, Canada
A Nested Regime: the Global Refugee Regime as Embedded in Other Issue-Areas of
Global Governance
Alexander Betts
Return in dignity: A neglected protection challenge
Megan Bradley, D.Phil student, Dept. of Politics and International Relations,
University of Oxford/International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 Closing session
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Scientific Committee: Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, Dr Matthew Gibney
Administration: Ms Narola Das
Assistance: Ms Maria Beatriz Bonna Nogueira, Mr Maher Bitar
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