About the Participants

Associate Vice-President Research and Innovation, Social Science and Humanities, York University

Supreme Federal Administrative Court of Germany, Honorary Professor of the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Professor, School of Law, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, United Kingdom

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr. Susan McGrath

Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and a Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Scholar at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Senior Refugee Law Advisor, Division of International Protection (DIP), UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland

Prof. Sharryn Aiken

Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Osamu Arakaki, Ph.D.

Professor of International Relations, Kansaigaidai University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario

Associate Professor / Professeur agrégé, Director of Graduate Studies, Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, Directeur des études supérieures, École des affaires publiques et internationales de Glendon, York University

President, Asylum and Immigration Chamber, Upper Tribunal, Field House, United Kingdom

President, Supreme Court of Cosa Rica | Corte Suprema de Justicia San José, Costa Rica

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy and Administration & Associate Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

Chairman, EurAsylum Ltd., Advisory Board and the Founding President of the IARLJ, Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom

Susan Davis

Executive Vice-President, Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, Canada

Departmental Lecturer in International, Refugee and Human Rights Law, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford

Chairperson, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University

Professor, European Migration Law, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

OBE, Director, Refugee Programme, Fahamu, Networks for Social Justice, United Kingdom

Chief Justice, Federal Court (Canada), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Supreme Court of India, Tilak Marg, India

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada

Professor, Director of International Law Programs, Faculty of Law, Australia

Coordinator, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

Transvaal Division Court, High Court of the Republic of South Africa and Justice of the African Court of Human and People's Rights, Arusha, Tanzania

Immediate Past President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges, Federal Court of Australia

Prof. Obiore Okafor

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Director, The Refugee Forum, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa

Senior Policy Advisor, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), Geneva, Switzerland

High Court Judge at the Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia and a Researcher at the University of Ljubljana

War Crimes and Refugee Status Research Workshop Coordinator