08:30 am

Light Breakfast

Official Research Workshop Opening

Welcome Addresses:

• Dr. Mamdouh Shoukri, York University President and Vice-Chancellor (via video)
• Dr. David Dewitt, Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities, York University
• Dr. Susan McGrath, Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.

Research Workshop Chairperson’s Opening Remarks:

• Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

War Crimes and Refugee Status Research Project  

Presenters:

• James C. Simeon, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
• Geoff Gilbert, School of Law, University of Essex, United Kingdom
• Kate Jastram, Faculty of Law, University of California at Berkeley, United States of America

Exclusion from International Protection and the Developing Content on Article 1F  

Presenters:

• Joseph Rikhof, Senior Legal Counsel, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Department of Justice, Canada
• Justice Professor Dr. Harald Dorig, Supreme Federal Administrative Court of Germany, Leipzig, Honorary Professor of the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena; 
• Kees Wouters, Senior Refugee Law Advisor, Division of International Protection, UNHCR Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

Concluding Remarks

• Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Dr. Susan McGrath, Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
• Dr. David Dewitt, Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities, York University