| In this oration, Dr Goodwin-Gill explored the historical foundations of the international refugee protection regime. He analysed the context in which the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees arose, and examined the specific issues which it was designed to ameliorate. He evaluated its relevance and function with respect to current refugee flows, and teased out the links between past and present legal 'solutions' to forced migration.
Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill is one of the world's leading scholars in international refugee law. Currently a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford , he was previously the Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford , the Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam , and worked for over a decade for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He is the author of the premiere refugee law text, The Refugee in International Law , and was the founding editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law. He has published extensively in the areas of refugee law, human rights, humanitarian law, migration, terrorism and electoral law. From time to time, he also practises as a barrister from Blackstone Chambers in London. |
