James C Hathaway
Director, Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, University of Michigan Law School
Bio
James C. Hathaway is the founding director of the University of Michigan’s innovative Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, in which students have the opportunity to study refugee law from international, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Hathaway has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Cairo, California, and Tokyo.
Hathaway regularly teaches a short course on the law of refugee status. This comprehensive workshop on the scope of the refugee definition gives participants the opportunity, through a mix of lecture and working group exercises, to grapple with difficult issues of application of the legal norms in the context of factual scenarios based on actual refugee claims.
