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18 Jun

[Matthew Gillett is the Chair of the Platform of Independence Experts on Refugee Rights, a member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and a Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School (UK)] Introduction This year we commemorate 75 years since the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol...

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17 Jun

[Karolína Babická is a Senior Legal Adviser with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Rosa Tibbetts is a Legal Intern with the ICJ. Stavros Papageorgopoulos is a Senior Legal Officer with the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.] Across Europe, some political actors are nowadays questioning the ability of the international legal order, including instruments such as the 1951 Refugee Convention and the...

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17 Jun

[Liliana Lyra Jubilut and James Milner are Co-Chairs of the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network from the Global Compact on Refugees] The global refugee regime is experiencing two relevant 75th anniversaries: first of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) last year; and, second, of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in July 2026. Celebratory...

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17 Jun

[Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice and Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Jane McAdam is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Law at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law,...

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16 Jun

[Elizabeth Tan is the Director of UNHCR’s Division of International Protection and Solutions] In 1951, in the aftermath of one of the most devastating wars the world had ever known, the international community recognized the need for international cooperation, grounded in law and humanity, for people who had fled their countries in need of safety and protection. In response, States adopted...

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16 Jun

[Massimo Frigo is a Senior Policy Officer in the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (DIPS) at the UNHCR. Cornelis (Kees) Wouters is a Senior Refugee Law Adviser in the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (DIPS) at the UNHCR.] Seventy-five years is a veteran age for everyone; even for a multilateral treaty. It is sufficient time to live through paradigmatic changes,...

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08 Jun

[Dr Sergey Sayapin is Professor of Law at KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Distinguished Visiting Global Scholar at the NUS Centre for International Law (2025)] If global risk has become the defining condition of contemporary international law, its most immediate and consequential expression lies in human vulnerability. Climate change destabilises ecological systems, technological innovation diffuses agency and outpaces control – yet it is through human exposure...

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01 Jun

[Deborah Ruiz Verduzco is  Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Prior to her appointment, she was Director of the Secretariat of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. She previously led the Civil Society Development Department at the International Commission on Missing Persons, served as Special Assistant to two Presidents of...

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29 May

[Natalia Kubesch is a Legal Advisor at REDRESS, focussing on asset recovery and the repurposing of assets frozen under Magnitsky Sanctions for the purpose of human rights reparations, and leading REDRESS’ universal jurisdiction work. Prior to this, Natalia practiced at two large international law firms in London, working on complex financial crime investigations and litigations, and advised on compliance with international sanction regimes.  Lyra Nightingale is...

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29 May

[Professor Luke Moffett is chair of human rights and international humanitarian law at Queen's University Belfast. He is author of Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court (Routledge 2014), Reparations and War (OUP 2023), and Algorithms of War (BUP 2026)] As the war in Ukraine drags into its fifth year (or thirteenth if you look back to Russia’s original invasion),...

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28 May

[Illia Chernohorenko served as Director-General for the Rule of Law Directorate at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, consulted the President of Ukraine on legal reform, and worked at the Supreme Court, representing it in the ECtHR’s Superior Courts Network. He is currently pursuing a DPhil on repurposing state assets as redress for human rights violations. In recent years, he...

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