James Hathaway
James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law; Director of the Refugee and Asylum Law Programme at the University of Michigan
D. and LL.M. at Columbia University, and an LL.B. (Honours) at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.
A leading authority on international refugee law, James C. Hathaway is James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law; Director of the Refugee and Asylum Law Programme at the University of Michigan; and Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme.
He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Tokyo, California, and Cairo, and regularly provides training on refugee law to academic, nongovernmental, and official audiences around the world.
Professor Hathaway established and directs the Refugee Caselaw Site (www.refugeecaselaw.org), and is an editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports.
Among his more important publications are a leading treatise on the refugee definition, The Law of Refugee Status (1991); an interdisciplinary study of refugee law reform, Reconceiving International Refugee Law (1997); and most recently an analysis of the nature of the legal duty to protect refugees, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
His main areas of research are Human Rights, International and Comparative Law, Public Interest Law, and Refugee and Asylum Law.
Spoken languages
English
Written languages
English
Expert publications
- 12/04/2006 - The false panacea of offshore deterrence
- 07/10/2005 - The UN world summit: a necessary wager
