Dear colleagues,

On the coming Wednesday, we are delighted to continue the Refugee Law Initiative's 6th annual seminar series (on refugee protection in the EU system) with…

- 'Running Sideways – Has Europe Overdone Distancing Itself from the Geneva Refugee Convention?'
- Julian Lehmann
- Wednesday 2 December 2015, 1800-1930
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR

Europe has become the most dynamic scene of asylum law development, not least because of the presence of two supranational courts adjudicating refugee law and human rights law. At the same time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has demonstrated readiness to push EU asylum law away from the Geneva Refugee Convention, partly to the benefit and partly to the detriment of asylum seekers. How far can the Court go in the direction of autonomy before putting at risk cohesion in a global refugee law regime?

To answer that question, this Seminar addresses how important shifts in refugee law have been contingent on an engagement with international, rather than domestic norms and their application. It contrasts the conditions of change to the approach by the CJEU, concluding that the Court should be more wary of its unintended role as the only supranational asylum court.

Bio - Julian Lehmann is an RLI doctoral Affiliate working on a doctoral project about home state protection in EU asylum law, supervised at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany. His doctoral project is funded by the Villigst Foundation. He is a research associate at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and was a research scholar at the University of Michigan in 2012. He has research and consulting experience for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, for the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, UNHCR and INTERIGHTS in London.

The event is free and open to the public. You can guarantee your place by registering through: http://bit.ly/1EGRX2I.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best regards,

David

Dr David James Cantor
Director of the Refugee Law Initiative
Reader in International Human Rights Law
School of Advanced Study - University of London

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