Posted by bednarma on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 in News.

[center]Making International Refugee Law Relevant Again: How to Move Beyond Crisis Thinking

 Monday, October 2 | noon – 1 p.m. | Vanderbilt University Law School, Renaissance Room 036[/center]

[center]In this presentation, Professor Hathaway suggests that the language of crisis is overstated. There is of course little doubt that the international refugee regime as presently implemented is an abject mess; it does not meet the needs of developed countries, of the poorer states that host the overwhelming majority of the world’s refugees, much less of refugees themselves. Yet the regime as implemented bears little resemblance to the approach actually agreed to by international treaty. The challenge, then, is not to come up with new law, but is rather to adopt insurance-style mechanisms to do what we have already promised to do in a dependable and managed way. This event is free and open to the public. Contact Robert Barsky at robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu with any questions.[/center]