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Refugee law is the branch of international law which deals with the rights and duties states have vis-a-vis refugees. There are differences of opinion among international law scholars as to the relationship between refugee law and international human rights law or humanitarian law .
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
James Hathaway (born 1956) is a Canadian-American scholar of international refugee law and related aspects of human rights and public international law.His work has been frequently cited by the most senior courts of the common law world, and has played a pivotal role in the evolution of refugee studies scholarship.
The International Journal of Refugee Law is a peer reviewed academic journal of the law relating to forced migration. It is published by Oxford University Press . External links
International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Julius Stone; The Feasibility of the Right of Return by Salman Abu-Sittah; Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return: An International Law Analysis by Gail J. Boling; The Palestinian Refugees and the non-existence of the Right of Return, Ben-Dror Yemini
"A Comparative Look at Refugee Status Based on Persecution Due to Membership in a Particular Social Group". Cornell International Law Journal. 26 (3): 2. Parish, T. David (1992). "Membership in a Particular Social Group under the Refugee Act of 1980: Social Identity and the Legal Concept of the Refugee". Columbia Law Review. 92 (4): 923–53.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugees by Numbers. Ilaria Bottigliero, "Displaced Persons Caught between War and Peace in Asia", 2 ISIL Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law (2002), pp. 117–133. Brav, Laura; Bouchet-Saulnier, Françoise (2002). The practical guide to humanitarian law.
B. S. Chimni (Bhupinder S. Chimni) is a legal scholar and academic who is presently distinguished professor of international law member at Jindal Global Law School. [1] His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee law.