How is the prohibition of refoulement interpreted by United Nations Treaty Bodies (UNTBs) in their individual decision-making? Do UNTBs act as 'soft courts' that are more progressive interpreters than hard courts? This webinar - arranged by the Centre for Migration Law Radboud University and the RefMig project - will discuss the ‘Pushing Upwards’ of Non-Refoulement Cases to UNTBs and the implications of this for accountability.
Chair: Paul Minderhoud (Professor, Utrecht University & Radboud University Nijmegen)
Speakers: Cathryn Costello (Professor, Hertie School, Berlin); Marieke van Eik (Lawyer, Prakken d’Oliveira, Human Rights Lawyers Amsterdam); Elspeth Guild, (Professor, Queen Mary University London & em. Prof. Radboud University Nijmegen); Karin Zwaan (Associate Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Registration
Please register before 20 June by emailing Charley Berndsen: cmr-rechtssociologie@ru.nl
The link to the webinar will be sent following registration. After registration you will also receive, for personal use, two publications on the topic of this seminar:
Başak Çalı, Cathryn Costello and Stewart Cunningham, Hard Protection through Soft Courts? Non-Refoulement before the United Nations Treaty Bodies, German Law Journal (2020), 21, pp. 355–384
Karin Zwaan: H5 Urgency in Expulsion Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights and the UN-Committees: A Bird’s Eye View, in : Eva Rieter and Karin Zwaan (eds), Urgency and Human Rights. The Protective Potential and Legitimacy of Interim Measures, Den Haag: Asser Press 2021.p. 135-160
Webinair arranged by the Centre for Migration Law (CMR) – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Onderzoekcentrum voor Staat en Recht and the RefMig project ‘Refugees are Migrants – Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights’ a Horizon 2020 award funded by the European Research Council (grant number 716968).