Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) is a global network of asylum seeking and refugee women, academics, practitioners, policymakers and activists. Our submission draws together recent evidence and knowledge from our UK members with lived experience of claimi... Read More about Submission to the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The talk has two objectives. It first explains the process of criminalization of solidarity in the European Union and especially how the law is used as an instrument of securitization and sanction against solidaristic acts. It also provides examples... Read More about Criminalisation of solidarity towards migrants in the European Union - Issues, challenges and solutions.
Consolidating group-based refugee protection (2024)
Digital Artefact
In this blog post, Christel Querton explores two pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and how they provide an opportunity for the CJEU to consolidate group-based refugee protection.
The concept of legal convergence (2024)
Book Chapter
The concept of convergence of legal systems stands for a leading idea in the modern discipline of law. Whereas one could neo-romantically still perceive law as a Landesjurisprudenz, a sort of provincial and domestic study, it would be fair to maintai... Read More about The concept of legal convergence.
Collective Self-Defence in International Law (2024)
Book
Collective self-defence can be defined as the use of military force by one or more states to aid another state that is an innocent victim of armed attack. However, it is a legal justification that is open to abuse and its exercise risks escalating co... Read More about Collective Self-Defence in International Law.
Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice (2024)
Digital Artefact
Economic crimes and war crimes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This keynote speech starts by providing a definition of war crimes under the Statute of the International Criminal Court and then focuses on war crimes that can be deemed to be of an economic nature. The speech then moves on to examine the definition... Read More about Economic crimes and war crimes.
The role of race in the conceptualization of South African apartheid as a crime (2024)
Book Chapter
Race is an element and key concept in atrocity crimes such as genocide and apartheid. The construction of race as an element of the crime of apartheid in the paradigmatic case study of South Africa is investigated in this chapter, taking into account... Read More about The role of race in the conceptualization of South African apartheid as a crime.
Ecocide: A 21st century international crime in the making (2023)
Digital Artefact
International humanitarian law and healthcare (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
After a brief overview of the key principles of international humanitarian law (IHL), this presentation focuses on the protection offered by IHL to medical personnel and medical units. The concepts of 'medical personnel' and 'medical units' are defin... Read More about International humanitarian law and healthcare.
R2P - Whose responsibility - Whose protection? A gender perspective (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The keynote speech starts by questioning who is protected by humanitarian interventions. It argues that there is a disparity between the rhetoric of protecting vulnerable groups (especially women), the law that is contained in UN reports and UN Secur... Read More about R2P - Whose responsibility - Whose protection? A gender perspective.
Between human dignity and public order: States and refugees’ contestations and conflicting claims to shared values of human dignity in international law in the context of the global refugee crisis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The global refugee crisis driven mainly by armed conflicts is wreaking havoc on the stability of international refugee law and international law generally; thus, raising questions whether the crisis is beyond the reach of international law and the po... Read More about Between human dignity and public order: States and refugees’ contestations and conflicting claims to shared values of human dignity in international law in the context of the global refugee crisis.
This chapter examines the criteria of statehood according to the Montevideo Convention and applies them to four entities (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh) that were part of the Soviet Union with a view to evaluating their sta... Read More about Territorial conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union - Stabilised de facto regimes between territorial integrity, the right of self-determination, and the interests of third parties.
The spirit of modern academic legal education: Towards governing principles (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The contribution promotes the idea of principles in academic legal education. Principles are taken to be abstract notions that can offer a certain direction of things in academic legal education. The paper posits that such principles should be taken... Read More about The spirit of modern academic legal education: Towards governing principles.
Do the ‘risks’ to public order posed by the journeys of transnational migrants challenge the stability, effectiveness and redemptive power of international human rights law to protect migrant rights? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Whether through the Mediterranean, the English Channel or other routes, migrants and refugees, through crossing national borders in their attempt to reach an international destination, challenge an international system built on the premise of state s... Read More about Do the ‘risks’ to public order posed by the journeys of transnational migrants challenge the stability, effectiveness and redemptive power of international human rights law to protect migrant rights?.
From dictatorship to democracy in South Africa (2023)
Book Chapter
South Africa’s transition to democracy in the early 1990s can be described as a complex transition. It was not only a transition from a dictatorship and an oppressive regime to a democratic dispensation. It was, first and foremost, a transition from... Read More about From dictatorship to democracy in South Africa.
Collective self-defence and the criterion of a request for aid (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine and forums for redress and prosecution (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This is a lecture given to students attending the Ukraine Practicum module at Chapman University (USA). The lecture focuses on violations of international humanitarian law and the ways IHL can be implemented and enforced in the context of the armed c... Read More about Violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine and forums for redress and prosecution.
The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Of all the concepts that are often evoked to tackle issues of political inclusion and exclusion, solidarity is perhaps the most frequently discussed. Although there is no unanimous agreement on a definition of this concept, which is variously referre... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions.
Child Soldiers (2023)
Book Chapter
This chapter provides a description of the law that relates to child soldiers. It starts by explaining the various legal regimes that govern the situation of child soldiers, then moves on to providing a definition of a child soldier. It then discusse... Read More about Child Soldiers.