Nik Tan

New: Landmark Cases in International Refugee Protection

International Jurisprudence on the Rights of Refugees

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Reommended reading!

‘Really cautious’: why the ICJ is delaying a Gaza genocide verdict While civilians starve and global opinion hardens, judgment from international court may not come until 2027 – or later

ICJ extends time periods in Genocide Convention case www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...

In our free inaugural editorial as E-i-C w/Sarah Singer @rli-sas.bsky.social we trace 40 years of scholarship @ the #International_Journal_of_Refugee_Law (OUP) & reflect on new directions: academic.oup.com/ijrl/article...
@profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

Several alternative approaches to achieving accountability for transnational migration control have been championed in recent years by both academics and practitioners. For one example and some reflections see this collab with @ndftan.bsky.social : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The ECtHR finally decided SS v Italy; a case that has spawned dozens of scholarly articles since its submission in 2018. The outcome is highly worrying for migrant rights, but at the same time hardly surprising given the court’s previous case law on extraterritorial jurisdiction 🧵1/6

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Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how po...

It's out

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CJEU, new case, temporary protection

Dutch court asks CJEU if Member States can suspend the processing of asylum applications by temporary protection beneficiaries for the entire period of temporary protection - curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...

Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how po...

It's out

www.routledge.com/Transnationa...

Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how po...

Discover this 2025 book on transnational asylum via @tandfresearch.bsky.social.

FMR 76 'Climate change: choices for displaced people' - Forced Migration Review

Less than 1 week left to the deadline for our call for article proposals for #ClimateChange: choices for displaced people!

All article proposals must be submitted via the online form by 14 May, 11pm BST

See: www.fmreview.org/climate-change-cfa/

#Displacement #Refugees #Migration #AcademicSky

Essential reading

5 ways to tackle Australia’s backlog of asylum cases Overall, Australia needs a fundamental shift that recognises fairness contributes to, rather than detracts from efficiency.

🛑 In Australia, tens of thousands of people are waiting for asylum decisions.
New piece in @theconversation.com by @danghez.bsky.social, Mia Bridle and Keyvan Dorostkar outlines 5 ways to fix it: theconversation.com/5-ways-to-ta...
#RefugeeLaw #AsylumSeekers #Fairness=Efficiency #AusPol

Come and work with me! We’re hiring a new Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in international disaster law to join us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social - apply by 15 May external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

FMR’s next issue on 'Dangerous Journeys’ is due out in May & then we’ll be working toward our October issue on a #ClimateChange -related theme.

To be notified when issues go online & when calls for article proposals are live, sign up for email alerts at: www.fmreview.org/fmr-alerts/

#Displacement

🔥Full volume out now: 'What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda' - our special issue in J Refugee Studies (w/ the amazing
@danghez.bsky.social and Helene Lambert)

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@mobileucph.bsky.social

Speed briefing - Practical toolkit on climate and disaster displacement YouTube video by UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law

📺Did you miss our speed briefing on the ground-breaking new legal toolkit on climate and disaster displacement?
No worries; watch on demand.
W/@profjmcadam.bsky.social, Madeline Garlick @unhcr.org and Dr Tamara Wood
#climate #disasters #dispalcement #law #protection www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtHH...

Thursday 6th in Oxford @refugeestudies.bsky.social, the brilliant Prof Audrey Macklin on exit.

www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/no-ex...

The European Court of Human Rights is now posting on here 👋🏛

Proud to be an affiliate of the Kaldor Centre, a leading international refugee law research centre

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Marie Juul Petersen and I in new JEMS special issue on the temporary turn in asylum: Researching the politics of deterrence in practice

‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICC seeks arrest warrants against Taliban leaders over persecution of women The ICC chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including Haibatullah Akhundzada, alleging crimes against humanity for widespread discrimination again...

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, alleging crimes against humanity for widespread discrimination against women and girls.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Thanks IASFM and the conference organisers for an excellent few days in Yogya

Marie Juul Petersen and I in new JEMS special issue on the temporary turn in asylum: Researching the politics of deterrence in practice

‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Daily on the state of asylum in the US

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Submit your abstracts by 14th Feb for ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ @uctlaw.bsky.social with @bordercrim.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social & KCL Law

with E. Tendayi Achiume, @madlingozi.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social & Siphamandla Zondi

Call for papers here

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Starter packs if you want to follow professionals, scholars and organisations in the field of public international law.
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Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US ‘forced to remain in limbo’ in at least 36 countries, some in ‘untenable conditions’

Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal.

New from me, for @theguardian.com

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Yes do you want to join us for dinner on Sunday?

Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in offshore facilities, UN Human Rights Committee finds GENEVA - In two landmark decisions, the UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia remained responsible for the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers redirected or transferred to offshore dete...

In two communications, Human Rights Committee finds Australia exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction over detention facilities on Nauru

M.I. et al. v Australia
Nabhari v Australia

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...