When: Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AMWhere: Online
Watch (B)OrderS Book Forum: The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities on YouTube.
This book forum is organised by (B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration at Queen Mary University of London.
The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities (Brill, 2021) offers detailed analysis of the treatment of persons with disabilities who face persecution. How does the 1951 Refugee Convention apply to them? In this first comprehensive study on the refugee definition for persons with disabilities, Stephanie Motz proposes a disability-specific approach to refugee status. The book provides a critical analysis of case law on refugee status determination focusing on four selected jurisdictions. Each chapter examines a different element of the refugee definition in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as well as international refugee law standards.
This book is of particular interest to refugee and disability law scholars and an essential tool for courts and tribunals, practitioners, and state authorities in the application of the refugee definition to asylum claims of persons with disabilities.
Dr Stephanie Motz received her PhD with distinction from the University of Lucerne, where she is now a lecturer in international migration law. She also worked part-time at the University of Lucerne between 2016 and 2018, first as a research assistant and later as a post-doctoral research fellow (chair of Prof. Caroni). Dr Motz regularly lectures and publishes on human rights issues. She is a public law and international law expert specialized in migration and criminal law. She litigates before national and international bodies, including the European Court of Human Rights and the UN human rights committees. Having commenced her legal practice in London in 2008, she has been working as a lawyer in Zurich since 2011. Prior to that, she gained practical experience at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, the Greek Refugee Council in Athens, and the Department of Justice of Malawi.
The discussants are:
Professor Delia Ferri, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Assisting Living & Learning (ALL) Institute (Maynooth School of Law and Criminology)
Professor Michelle Foster, Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (Melbourne Law School)
Dr Nicolette Busuttil, MAPS Post-doctoral Researcher and Assistant Coordinator of the (B)OrderS Centre (Queen Mary School of Law)
Chair: Professor Merris Amos, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre (Queen Mary School of Law)
Convenor: Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax, Professor of Law and Founding Director of the (B)OrderS Centre (Queen Mary Law School)
Delia Ferri is a Professor of Law at Maynooth University (MU), where she lectures primarily in the fields of EU law and International and European Disability Law. She is Director of the Postgraduate Research (PhD) Programmes in Law and is the co-Director of the MU Assisting Living & Learning (ALL) Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute that promotes person-centred systems and evidence-based policies that empower people across their life course. Professor Ferri is an affiliated researcher at the DIRPOLIS Institute (Institute of Law, Politics and Development) of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), a fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute of Syracuse University (USA), a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Standing Committee in International Affairs (SCIA) and a senior member of the European Disability Expertise network funded by the European Commission.
Michelle Foster is a Professor and the inaugural Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School who has published widely in the field of international refugee law, including International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation (CUP, 2007), with James C. Hathaway, The Law of Refugee Status, Second Edition, (CUP, 2014), and with Hélène Lambert, International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons. Professor Foster has undertaken consultancy work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and training of refugee tribunal members in New Zealand and Australia. She is Editor in Chief (with Laura van Waas) of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review, an Advisory Board Member of the Melbourne Journal of International Law, an Associate Member of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Law Judges, and joint case editor (with Professor Hélène Lambert) of the International Journal of Refugee Law.
Nicolette Busuttil is a MAPS post-doctoral Researcher and Centre Coordinator of the (B)OrderS Centre within the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Nicolette’s research focuses on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its implications for migrants and refugees with disabilities within the EU, particularly for those with mental healthcare needs. Nicolette is a Visiting Lecturer in International and European Refugee Law at the University of Westminster and a Senior Teaching Fellow in Law at SOAS University of London.
Merris Amos is Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law. She has previously held posts at the University of Essex, University of Westminster and the Australian Human Rights Commission. Her research and teaching focusses on national human rights law, in particular the UK Human Rights Act 1998, and the relationship between national and international human rights laws and institutions. Her book, Human Rights Law Second Edition (Oxford: Hart, 2014) is an important reference point for scholars, students and practitioners. The Third Edition will be published in 2021. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association and in 2018 she was appointed as the UK member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She is an Expert member of Britain in Europe.
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