Migration Law Discussion Group
About the Group
The Migration Law Discussion Group The Migration Law Discussion Group hosts seminars throughout the academic year on a variety of migration law topics and issues. The seminars bring together speakers from a wide range of disciplines (law, politics, economics, sociology, history, geography, and development studies among others) working on the theoretical, normative, and empirical dimensions of migration law, policies, and practices.
Convenors: Mimi Zou, Rowena Moffatt
Senior member: Cathryn Costello
Previous Group Events
May 2013
Monday 13 May 2013
- RT (Zimbabwe) in the UK Supreme Court
- Speaker: Raza Husain QC, Matrix Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 17:00
Friday 3 May
- Migration detention policies as an obstacle to the realisation of migrants’ human rights
- Speaker: Professor Francois Crepeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrant
Oxford Law Faculty Law Faculty SCR at 13:00
April 2013
Monday 22 April
- Migrants, unfree labour and the legal construction of domestic servitude: Migrant domestic workers in the UK
- Speaker: Professor Judy Fudge and Dr Kendra Strauss, University of Victoria, Canada / Cambridge University
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
February 2013
Thursday 28 February
- The Price of Rights. Labour immigration policy and the rights of migrant workers
- Speaker: Martin Ruhs, CONTED and COMPAS, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
Thursday 21 February
- The Right to Work of Irregular Migrants
- Speaker: Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
Thursday 14 February
- Do Human Rights Treaties Help or Hurt Asylum-Seekers?: The U.K. Case
- Speaker: Stephen Meili, University of Minnesota
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
Monday 11 February
- The Culture of Rights Protection in Canadian Refugee Law: Examining the Domestic Violence Cases
- Speaker: Dr Efrat Arbel, The University of British Columbia
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Thursday 7 February
- Border Regimes and Human Rights
- Speaker: David Miller, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
Wednesday 6 February
- Towards a Human Rights-Based Paradigm of Integration? Assessing the Contribution of International Human Rights Law
- Speaker: Dr Cliodhna Murphy, Dublin City University
Oxford University English Seminar Room A (Meyerstein Room), St. Cross Building, Manor Road Bldg, Oxford OX1 3UQ at 17:30
January 2013
Thursday 31 January
- Integrating the human rights of migrants into the global governance of migration: the 2013 High-Level Dialogue and beyond
- Speaker: Pia Oberoi, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
Thursday 24 January
- Trafficking and the protection of human rights. Full of sound and fury, but what does it signify?
- Speaker: Bridget Anderson, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
Thursday 17 January
- In Defense of the Migrant Workers Convention: Standard Setting for Contemporary Migration
- Speaker: Bernard Ryan, University of Kent
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
June 2012
Friday 22 June 2012 until Saturday 23 June 2012
- Migrants at Work - Labour Law and Migration Status: Exploring the Interlinkages
- Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 9:00
Wednesday 6 June
- Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture: States, sovereignties and refugees: A view from the margins?
- Speaker: Professor Alessandro Monsutti, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
May 2012
Wednesday 30 May
- Transnational refugee law and the Common European Asylum System
- Speaker: Professor Hélène Lambert, University of Westminster
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
Wednesday 23 May
- Accessing international protection in Europe: Can EU policy be reconciled with EU law?
- Speaker: Violeta Moreno-Lax, University of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
Tuesday 22 May
- Asylum from inhumanity: Enriching refugee protection standards through recourse to international humanitarian law
- Change of venue
Speaker: Jean-François Durieux, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube - St Cross Building at 18:30
Wednesday 16 May
- The perfect storm: the challenge of EU obligations on reception of asylum seekers and European human rights norms
- Speaker: Professor Elspeth Guild, Radboud University Nijmegen & Queen Mary University
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
Monday 14 May
- The revolutionary approach to immigration in Argentina: What are the lessons for Europe?
- Speaker: Dr Diego Acosta, University of Sheffield
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Thursday 10 May
- Separating the persecutors from the persecuted: a feminist and comparative examination of exclusion from the refugee regime
- Change of time
Speaker: Kate Ogg, MSc student, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F - St Cross Building at 17:00
Wednesday 9 May
- The future of international cooperation on refugee protection
- Speaker: Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, University of Newcastle
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
Wednesday 2 May
- The Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights as refugee law courts
- Speaker: Dr Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
April 2012
Monday 30 April
- More unified policies, better human rights protection? The case of EU immigration and asylum policies
- Speaker: Gjovalin Macaj, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
March 2012
Wednesday 7 March
- Security of Residence as a Human Right, or How Courts Should Regularise those Migrants Who are Here to Stay
- Speaker: Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room at 14:00
February 2012
Monday 27 February
- How far does non-refoulement go? A discussion on Hirsi v Italy
- Speaker: Madeline Garlick , Head of Unit, Policy & Legal Support, UNHCR Europe
Refugee Studies Centre Seminar Room 2 - Queen Elizabeth House (3 Mansfield Rd - Oxford OX1 3TB) at 17:30
Monday 20 February
- Putting solidarity to the test: assessing Europe’s response to the asylum crisis in Greece
- Speaker: Lilian Tsourdi, PhD Candidate, Law Faculty and Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
January 2012
Monday 30 January
- External State Protection and the Predicament of Recognised Geneva Convention Refugees
- Speaker: Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler , Dphil candidate, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Monday 23 January
- Is UNHCR becoming a migration agency? An analysis of UNHCR's engagement in mixed movements
- Speaker: Anja Klug , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Refugee Studies Centre Seminar Room 2 - Queen Elizabeth House (3 Mansfield Rd - Oxford OX1 3TB) at 17:00
2012
- Are All Refugees Equal Before the Law? The 1951 Refugee Convention and Article 26 of the ICCPR
- Speaker: Marina Sharpe, Dphil candidate, Linacre College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
November 2011
Monday 28 November 2011
- Citizenship, refugees and protected persons
- Speaker: Ms Anne Neylon, University College Cork, Ireland
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Tuesday 22 November
- Beyond the hukou: the regulatory spider-web that affects China'’s rural migrant workers
- Speaker: Ms Mimi Zou, St John’s College & Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Hertford College Lower Senior Common Room at 13:00
Monday 14 November
- "The proliferation of human rights: when do moral rights become legal rights?"
- Speaker: Ms Michele Morel, Ghent University, Belgium.
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
May 2011
Tuesday 17 May
February 2011
Thursday 24 February
- M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece
- Worcester College Please enquire at the Lodge. at 18:00
