Borders & Human Rights in Europe – Recent Legal Developments Explored
This seminar provides an opportunity to examine the changing legal context of migration governance in and around the Mediterranean. It brings together academic lawyers and practitioners to discuss the workings of the legal regime of search and rescue, suppression of human smuggling, non-refoulement and the prohibition on collective expulsion. The aim is to focus on discrete recent legal developments in particular, and to explore their implications. These are UN Security Council Resolution 2240 (2015) on human smuggling in Libya, various EU Member States’ plans to erect further border walls and fences and the communication of cases against Spain concerning its border practices in Ceuta and Melilla and their compatibility with the prohibition on collective expulsion.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Wharton Room, All Souls College, High Street, Oxford
Chair & Convenor
Professor Cathryn Costello, Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor in International Human Rights and Refugee Law
Speakers:
Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, All Soul’s College, Oxford
The Mediterranean as a Special Area of Responsibility
Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
UN Security Council Resolution 2240 (2015) – The Crime of Human Smuggling as a Threat to International Peace and Security
Ms Nuala Mole, Director, AIRE Centre
Current Litigation against Border Expulsions
Commander Patrick Burke, Legal Officer, Irish Defence Forces
All at Sea - Operational and Legal Issues in Maritime Search and Rescue
Ms Stephanie Motz, Visiting Fellow, Refugee Studies Centre
The Boat is Full - Non-Refoulement at Border Fences and Walls