About the Program
- Welcome Letter from Dr. James C. Simeon to the participants
- PDF version of the program
| Day 1: Thursday, May 1, 2008 | |
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9:00 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 a.m. | Opening Address “The critical issues confronting international refugee law today” -- Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Soul’s College, Oxford University, United Kingdom |
| 10:00 a.m. | Judicial Commentaries Chief Justice Allan Lutfy, Federal Court of Canada |
| 10:30 a.m. | Health Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Roundtable Discussion |
| 12:15 p.m. | Commentator’s Review Professor Obiora Okofor, Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, Student Rapporteur: Neha Chugh |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. | International Refugee Protection: 1951 Convention and Subsidiary Protection -- Professor Jane McAdam, Senior Lecturer and Director International Law Programmes, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2:30 p.m. | Judicial Commentaries Justice Professor Harald Dorig, Vice-President, Refugee Senate, Federal Administrative Court of Germany, Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson, Federal Court(Canada) |
| 3:00 p.m. | Health Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion |
| 4:15 p.m. | Commentator’s Review Professor Elspeth Guild, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and Kingsley Napley, UK., Student Rapporteur: Grace Wang |
| 4:30 p.m. | Adjourn for the Day |
| 6:30 p.m. | Reception for Research Workshop Participants |
| 7:00 p.m. | Formal Dinner for Research Workshop Participants |
| Day 2: Friday, May 2, 2008 | |
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9:00 a.m. |
Opening Remarks – Resumption of the Workshop |
| 9:15 a.m. | Exclusion Under Article 1F and Prosecution Professor Geoff Gilbert, Department of Law, University of Essex, United Kingdom |
| 9:45 a.m. | Judicial Commentaries Geoffrey Care, Chairperson of Eurasylum International Advisory Council, and retired Deputy Chief Adjudicator, Immigration Appeal Tribunal, United Kingdom, and High Court of Zambia |
| 10:30 a.m. | Roundtable Discussion |
| 10:45 a.m. | Commentator’s Review Professor Audrey Macklin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Student Rapporteur: Tara Raissi |
| 11:00 a.m. | Health Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Research Workshop Address The Honourable Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court, Republic of South Africa |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. | Economic, Social and Culture Rights as Grounds for a Claim for Refugee Status |
| 2:30 p.m. | Judicial Commentaries Juan Osuna, Acting Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals, United States; Justice Esme Chombo, High Court of Malawi; Justice Anne Mactavish, Federal Court of Canada |
| 3:00 p.m. | Health Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion |
| 4:30 p.m. | Commentator’s Review Professor Sherry Aiken, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Student Rapporteurs: Grace Wang and Neha Chugh |
| 4:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks Justice Tony North, Federal Court of Australia and President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) |
