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Law, Human rights, Public international law
List of contents
Introduction; 1. The evolution of the refugee rights regime; 2. An interactive approach to interpreting refugee rights; 3. The structure of entitlement under the refugee convention; 4. Rights of refugees physically present; 5. Rights of refugees lawfully or habitually present; 6. Rights of refugees lawfully staying; 7. Rights of solution; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
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.
Summary
A fully revised and updated second edition of the award-winning, foundational study of refugee rights under international law. Essential reading for lawyers, judges, law students, policymakers, and scholars keen to understand how best to respond to the global asylum crisis.
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Praise 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
