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• Israeli Supreme Court on Detention of Asylum Seekers
• The Conundrum of Concealment: Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v. SZSCA, [2013] FCAFC 155 (Aus. Full Federal Court, Dec. 10, 2013)
• South African Court Affirms Refugees’ Right to Self-Employment
• UNHCR Faces an RSD Crisis
• Supreme Court of Canada and “Serious Non-Political Crimes”
• Historic U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals Decision Recognizes Domestic Violence and Gender as the Basis for Asylum
• No Refuge From Climate Change
• One Year after the Korean Refugee Act
• Establishing a Common European Asylum System by Leaving European Human Rights Standards Behind: Is this the Way Forward?
• “The Benefit of the Doubt” in Asylum Law
• Forced Removals to Somalia Continue in the Netherlands
• Of Shepherds and Sheepdogs – Andre Lawrence Shepherd v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland before the Court of Justice of the European Union
• Vulnerability, the Right to Asylum and the Dublin System
• Syrian Asylum Seekers Face Difficulties in Japan
• The Michigan Guidelines on Risk for Reasons of Political Opinion
• Refugee Protection for Homeschoolers? Congressional Efforts to Amend the Refugee Definition and Restrict Protection for Central American Refugees
• Privacy and Impunity in South Africa
• How to Sink a Boat: A Legal Analysis of the Right to Seek Asylum
• Uighur Refugee Dispute Sheds Light on Thai Asylum Practices
• Palestinian Refugees and the Protection Gap
• Hispaniola: A Current Stateless Issue and a Looming Refugee Crisis
• The Often Fine Line Between Asylum Seeker and Smuggler
• Moving Beyond the Asylum Muddle
• Complicity under Article 1F(a) of the 1951 Convention
• Khlaifia and Others v Italy: Italy again held in violation of collective expulsions by ECtHR
• The U.S. State Governors and the Syrian Refugees
• Expulsion of Refugees from Russia to Syria Would Violate International Obligations
• Hotspots and Relocation Schemes: The Right Therapy for the Common European Asylum System?
• Lessons from the Response of German Courts to Hungary’s Asylum Procedures
• Naturalization in Tanzania: Lessons from the Ebb and Flow of the Process
• A Global Solution to a Global Refugee Crisis
• Welcome to Denmark: How Will You Be Paying for Your Stay?
• Recasting Detention of Asylum Seekers in Bulgaria: The Good and Bad about EU Asylum Law
• Administrative Contempt: South Africa’s Refusal to Reopen the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office
• The Smuggled and the Smuggler: Exploring the Distinctions Between Mutual Aid, Humanitarian Refugee Assistance and People Smuggling in Canadian Law
• Pacific Dissolution: The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea Rejects Australia’s Refugee Deterrence Scheme
• Mental Disability and Subjective Fear in the United States
• A Really, Really Bad Month for Refugees
• The Enemy of My Enemy: European Readmission Agreements with Repressive Governments
• Protecting Refugee Property and Dignity: A Brief Comment on the Legal and Ethical Basis of the Danish “Jewelry Law”
• Norway Builds Fence Along Border with Russia to Deter Refugees and Migrants
• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie? Temporary Protection in European Union Asylum Law
• Executive (Dis)order and Refugees—The Trump Policy’s Blindness to International Law
• Nigerian Sex-Trafficking Victims and the Recognition of Refugee Status in the United Kingdom
• Denial at the Airport, Denial of Procedural Fairness: Examining the Korean Refugee Act
• A Child-Rights Framework for Understanding ‘Being Persecuted’: The Case of JA (child – risk of persecution) Nigeria
• Nationality as an Element of the Refugee Definition and the Unsettled Issues of ‘Inchoate Nationality’ and ‘Effective Nationality’
• The Negative Effects of Relying on Inconsistencies to Determine Credibility in Asylum Claims Involving an Initial Omission of Sexual Assault
• The International Non-Refoulement Obligation and a Refugee’s Non-Compliance Under the Australian Migration Act of 1958
• Understanding “Suffering,” Yet Misconstruing Intentionality: U.S. Compliance and Non-Compliance with the Convention against Torture
• One Year Later: Child Immigration Detention Continues
• Israeli Supreme Court Rules: Taxation and Employment Restrictions on Employers of “foreign workers” Apply to Employers of Asylum Seekers Too
• Protection in Word But Not in Practice: How Resettlement Countries are Failing LGBTI Refugees
• Unsafe Third Country: Greek Court Returns Syrian Refugees to Turkey
• Mexico and U.S. Still Lock Up Central American Refugees, but Make Moves Towards Ending Detention
• Merging Sociology and Law: How Social Construction of Identity May Explain Differing Treatment of Women and Gay People as Social Groups in Refugee Law
• The Inclusion of a Subjective Component in “Well-Founded Fear” and the Insufficiency of Strict Textualism
• Anti-Gang/Guerrilla Opinions are Political Opinions
• Taking Subjectivity Out of the Serious Harm Determination
• Support for Refugees with Disabilities and Other Specific Health Care Needs
• The Government’s Role in Domestic Violence: A different take on nexus formation
• Towards a Less Arbitrary Unequal: Designating Last Habitual Residence in Stateless Asylum Claims in the U.S.