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Privacy and Impunity in South Africa

Megan Pierce 2015 Michigan Program in Refugee and Asylum Law Fellow On September 26, 2014 the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down its decision in CoRMSA v President of the Republic of...

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Uighur Refugee Dispute Sheds Light on Thai Asylum Practices

Ian Green Second Year Law Student at University of Michigan Law School In March, a Thai court ruled that a group of 17 Uighur refugees will remain in detention until their nationalities are proven....

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Palestinian Refugees and the Protection Gap

Leila Pastore Second Year Law Student at University of Michigan Law School In April, the UN issued a press statement regarding the desperate condition of Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in...

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Hispaniola: A Current Stateless Issue and a Looming Refugee Crisis

Julie Kornfeld Third Year Law Student in the Program on Refugee and Asylum Law at University of Michigan Law School On Hispaniola, the island divided between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the early...

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Moving Beyond the Asylum Muddle

James Hathaway University of Michigan James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law Hungary’s decision this week to seal its border with Serbia with massive coils of barbed wire is an affront to any...

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The Often Fine Line Between Asylum Seeker and Smuggler

Adrienne Boyd Third Year Law Student in the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at University of Michigan Law School   [Was the refugee applicant] a people smuggler         or was [he] himself a smuggled...

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Khlaifia and Others v Italy: Italy again held in violation of collective...

Sarah Craig PhD Candidate, Queen’s University Belfast       In a Chamber judgment of 1 September 2015 in Khlaifia and Others v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held Italy in violation...

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The U.S. State Governors and the Syrian Refugees

Richard Primus University of Michigan Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law The movement among many Governors after the Paris attacks to oppose continuing resettlement of Syrian refugees...

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Legal Protections for Displaced & Stateless Persons in the Caribbean Region

Kathleen Bush-Joseph Third year law student at the University of California-Los Angeles, specializing in international human rights law Recent legal and political developments in the Dominican...

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Expulsion of refugees from Russia to Syria would violate international...

Laura Létourneau-Tremblay Researcher, PluriCourts, University of Oslo In a recent decision L.M. and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has unanimously held that the forced...

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Lessons from the Response of German Courts to Hungary’s Asylum Procedures

Jennifer Nelson Second year law student at the University of Michigan Program in Refugee and Asylum Law and RefLaw.org Articles Editor Last summer, German courts called attention to Hungary’s...

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Welcome to Denmark: How Will You Be Paying for Your Stay?

Andrea Curley Third year law student at the University of North Carolina, focusing on immigration law In January of this year, much to the dismay of refugee rights groups, the Danish Parliament passed...

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Administrative Contempt: South Africa’s Refusal to Reopen the Port Elizabeth...

Megan Smith Megan Smith earned her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in May 2016, and is currently seeking admission to the Texas bar In 2015, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals...

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Pacific Dissolution: The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea Rejects...

Eric Sloat Third year student at the University of Michigan Law School and Notes Editor for Reflaw.Org On April 26th, 2016, the Supreme Court of Justice for Papua New Guinea (PNG) ruled...

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Mental Disability and Subjective Fear in the United States

By Ian Green Third year student at the University of Michigan Law School and Editor-in-Chief of Reflaw.org In June 2015, the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a decision in Matter of...

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The Enemy of My Enemy: European Readmission Agreements with Repressive...

By Salam Sheikh-Khalil Second-year student at the University of Michigan Law School and Associate Editor for Reflaw.org In late August 2016, Italy deported 48 Sudanese nationals—many of them from...

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Norway Builds Fence Along Border with Russia to Deter Refugees and Migrants

By Sarah Alsaden Graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (2016) and former Notes Editor for reflaw.org; currently admitted to the Ohio Bar. In recent months, Norway has moved to tighten the...

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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie? Temporary Protection in European Union Asylum Law

By Salvo Nicolosi Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of European, Public and International Law of Ghent University and an EU Fulbright-Schuman Fellow and Michigan Grotius Research Scholar at the...

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Nigerian Sex-Trafficking Victims and the Recognition of Refugee Status in the...

By Andrew Fletcher Second-year student at the University of Michigan Law School and Editor in Chief for Reflaw.org   The recent British asylum case of HD (Trafficked women) Nigeria CG offers hope that...

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The Negative Effects of Relying on Inconsistencies to Determine Credibility...

 by Liliya Paraketsova Third-year student at the University of Michigan Law School, Notes Editor at RefLaw, and Executive Editor for the Journal of Law Reform   An asylum seeker generally has several...

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