International Law

Fourth Edition of The Refugee Law Reader Now Online
The Fourth Edition of The Refugee Law Reader is now online. The Reader, created by a group of international refugee law specialists and published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, is the first comprehensive on-line model curriculum for the study of...

How A Refugee Can Bring His Or Her Spouse To Canada
Mike Bell, Immigration Lawyer with Bell Riley Achtari Despatis & Setzer of Ottawa, explains how a refugee can bring his or her spouse to Canada. If someone has convention refugee status and they have a spouse overseas, they need to indicate on their application that they have a spouse overseas that they want included in their [...

Britain's refugee shame
Britain's refugee shame"Gordon Brown has strongly criticised Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, but now ministers are seeking to expel 1,000 desperate people back to Harare on the grounds that there is 'no general risk' to them"...

Refugee Roulette: The U.S. Asylum System, Pervaded by Chance, Demands Reform
Arbitrary government action is antithetical to the rule of law. It is most abhorrent when it can result in imprisonment, torture, or death, as can occur when a refugee’s petition for asylum is denied...

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law #1: Introduction
This is the first podcast in Canadian Immigration and refugee law. We begin by considering the historical evolution of immigration within Canada and then turn to some early immigration cases to consider the role that racism played in the immigration process...

Walker on Sex Workers and Refugee Status in Australia
Kristen Walker (Melbourne) has posted on SSRN her recent article in the Melbourne University Law Review: Damned Whores and the Border Police: Sex Workers and Refugee Status in Australia...

Ladder Accident Injury Claims
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Failure-to-accommodate claim yields $1.82M award
$1.82 Million Awarded in Employment Lawsuit

Recovery Claim
Florida Insurance Guarantee Association agrees to pay $14 million settlement to Home Solutions of America for construction services.