The Law of Refugee Status (1991)
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Nearly 150 countries have agreed to apply the same legal definition of a
"refugee" to decide who is entitled to their protection. This site is
designed to assist judges, advocates, and policymakers around the world
to access leading court decisions that interpret the refugee definition
set by the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol.
RCS Welcomes New Canadian Contributors
Published: March 28, 2011
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Prof. James Hathaway is pleased to welcome our newest National Coordinators of Canadian refugee jurisprudence. Joining Catherine Dauvergne, Canada Research Chair in Migration at UBC's Faculty of Law to complete the Canada team are the Honourable Michel M.J. Shore, Judge of the Federal Court, Ottawa, Ontario and former member and coordinator of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, as well as Sarah Marsden, a Liu Scholar and PhD student at the UBC Faculty of Law's Liu Institute for Global Issues. Our deepest thanks go out to departing coordinator Sharryn Aiken for her years of commitment and her contributions to the Refugee Caselaw Site.
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Our Current Collection
Our core collection contains cases from the highest national courts of
Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United
States. These cases have been selected and summarized by the Director of
the Refugee Caselaw Site, Professor James C. Hathaway, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
The collection is managed by the Assistant Director of the Refugee Caselaw Site at the University of Michigan Law School.
Cases are included in this database only because of their topical
relevance. Users should not rely on any case as a current, correct, or
complete statement of the law without further research into its
subsequent history and treatment.
The University of Michigan gratefully
acknowledges LEXIS -NEXIS for the use of caselaw materials, reproduced
here with permission. Copyright LEXIS NEXIS, a division of Reed
Elsevier, Inc. No copyright is claimed as to any part of the original
work prepared by a government officer or employee as part of that
person's official duties.
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