Themes include: 1) climate change & natural disasters; 2) detention; 3) groups: children, LGBTIQ+ persons, persons with disabilities, women; 4) human trafficking & migrant smuggling; 5) international law: armed conflict/IHL, forcible displacement, humanitarian assistance; migration (incl. by sea); refugees & asylum; 6) nationality & statelessness; 7) regional law: general, Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East.
See also the Open Access books page for law-related titles.
Climate change & natural disasters:
Lilian Yamamoto & Miguel Esteban, Atoll Island States and International Law: Climate Change Displacement and Sovereignty, Springer, Aug. 2013
Fanny Thornton, Climate Change and People on the Move: International Law and Justice, Oxford University Press, Nov. 2018
Climate change & natural disasters:
Lilian Yamamoto & Miguel Esteban, Atoll Island States and International Law: Climate Change Displacement and Sovereignty, Springer, Aug. 2013Fanny Thornton, Climate Change and People on the Move: International Law and Justice, Oxford University Press, Nov. 2018
Aylin Yildiz Noorda, Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move: Providing Protection under International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2022
Matthew Scott, Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention, Cambridge Univ., Press, Jan. 2020
Simon Behrman & Avidan Kent, eds., Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse?, Routledge, Feb. 2018
Stellina Jolly & Nafees Ahmad, Climate Refugees in South Asia: Protection under International Legal Standards and State Practices in South Asia, Springer, Dec. 2018
Benoit Mayer, The Concept of Climate Migration: Advocacy and Its Prospects, Edward Elgar, Nov. 2016
Isabel M. Borges, Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law: From Legal Protection Gaps to Protection Solutions, Routledge, Dec. 2018
Grant Dawson & Rachel Laut, Humans on the Move: Integrating an Adaptive Approach with a Rights-Based Approach to Climate Change Mobility, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2021
Giovanni Sciaccaluga, International Law and the Protection of 'Climate Refugees', Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020
David D. Caron, Michael J. Kelly & Anastasia Telesetsky, eds., The International Law of Disaster Relief, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2014
Hélène Ragheboom, The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2017
Benoit Mayer & Francois Crepeau, eds., Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Oct. 2017
Susan C. Breau & Katja L.H. Samuel, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Detention:
Rory Dunlop & Graham Denholm, eds., Detention under the Immigration Acts: Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, March 2015
Daniel Wilsher, Immigration Detention: Law, History, Politics, Cambridge University Press, June 2014
Justine N Stefanelli, Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU: From Principles to Practice, Hart Publishing, Jan. 2020
Groups:
Children
Jason M. Pobjoy, The Child in International Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, April 2017
Sonja C. Grover, Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right: Selected Case Law on State Resistance, Springer, May 2018
Samantha Arnold, Children's Rights and Refugee Law: Conceptualising Children within the Refugee Convention, Routledge, Aug. 2017
Ciara Smyth, European Asylum Law and the Rights of the Child, Routledge, June 2014
Matthew Scott, Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention, Cambridge Univ., Press, Jan. 2020
Simon Behrman & Avidan Kent, eds., Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse?, Routledge, Feb. 2018
Stellina Jolly & Nafees Ahmad, Climate Refugees in South Asia: Protection under International Legal Standards and State Practices in South Asia, Springer, Dec. 2018
Benoit Mayer, The Concept of Climate Migration: Advocacy and Its Prospects, Edward Elgar, Nov. 2016
Isabel M. Borges, Environmental Change, Forced Displacement and International Law: From Legal Protection Gaps to Protection Solutions, Routledge, Dec. 2018
Grant Dawson & Rachel Laut, Humans on the Move: Integrating an Adaptive Approach with a Rights-Based Approach to Climate Change Mobility, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2021
Giovanni Sciaccaluga, International Law and the Protection of 'Climate Refugees', Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2020
David D. Caron, Michael J. Kelly & Anastasia Telesetsky, eds., The International Law of Disaster Relief, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2014
Hélène Ragheboom, The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2017
Benoit Mayer & Francois Crepeau, eds., Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Oct. 2017
Susan C. Breau & Katja L.H. Samuel, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Detention:
Rory Dunlop & Graham Denholm, eds., Detention under the Immigration Acts: Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, March 2015
Daniel Wilsher, Immigration Detention: Law, History, Politics, Cambridge University Press, June 2014
Justine N Stefanelli, Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU: From Principles to Practice, Hart Publishing, Jan. 2020
Groups:
Children
Jason M. Pobjoy, The Child in International Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, April 2017
Sonja C. Grover, Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right: Selected Case Law on State Resistance, Springer, May 2018
Samantha Arnold, Children's Rights and Refugee Law: Conceptualising Children within the Refugee Convention, Routledge, Aug. 2017
Ciara Smyth, European Asylum Law and the Rights of the Child, Routledge, June 2014
Jennifer L. Whelan, Reconceptualising Unaccompanied Child Asylum Seekers and the Law, Routledge, Sept. 2022
Mark Klaassen, Stephanie Rap, Peter Rodrigues & Ton Liefaard, eds., Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law, Intersentia, Jan. 2020
LGBTIQ+ persons
Mark Klaassen, Stephanie Rap, Peter Rodrigues & Ton Liefaard, eds., Safeguarding Children’s Rights in Immigration Law, Intersentia, Jan. 2020
LGBTIQ+ persons
Janna Wessels, The Concealment Controversy: Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2021
Persons with disabilities
Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum & Ben Saul, The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible?, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2017
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Jane McAdam, The Refugee in International Law, 4th ed., Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2021
Colin Yeo, Refugee Law, Bristol Univ. Press, April 2022
Maria O’Sullivan, Refugee Law and Durability of Protection: Temporary Residence and Cessation of Status, Routledge, May 2019
Karen Musalo, Jennifer Moore, Richard A. Boswell & Annie Daher, Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, 5th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Aug. 2018
Susan Kneebone, Dallal Stevens & Loretta Baldassar, eds., Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities, Routledge, June 2014
Erika Feller, Volker Türk & Frances Nicholson, eds., Refugee Protection in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Mary Crock, ed., Refugees and Rights, Routledge, Dec. 2015
Denard Veshi, Refugees and the Law in Challenging Times: A Law and Economics Approach, Springer, July 2024
Dana Schmalz, Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State, Routledge, Sept. 2020
Vanessa Holzer, Refugees from Armed Conflict: The 1951 Refugee Convention and International Humanitarian Law, Intersentia, Aug. 2015
Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade, eds., Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Satvinder Singh Juss, ed., Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2019
Marjoleine Zieck, Resettlement as Protection: Integrating Resettlement of Refugees in International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, The Right of an Alien to be Protected against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, March 2015
James C. Hathaway, The Rights of Refugees under International Law, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2021
Maria O'Sullivan & Dallal Stevens, eds., States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection: Fortresses and Fairness, Hart Publishing, March 2017
Richard Grimes, Vera Honuskova & Ulrich Stege, eds., Teaching Migration and Asylum Law: Theory and Practice, Routledge, Dec. 2021
Meltem Ineli-Ciger, Temporary Protection in Law and Practice, Brill/Nijhoff, Jan. 2018
James C. Simeon, ed., Terrorism and Asylum, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020
Laura Westra, Satvinder Juss & Tullio Scovazzi, Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum, Routledge, June 2015
Nikolas Feith Tan, Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework, Routledge, Feb. 2025
James C. Simeon, ed., The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2013
Jill I. Goldenziel, "When Law Migrates: Refugees in Comparative International Law," Chapter in Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2018
Nationality & statelessness:
Serena Forlati & Alessandra Annoni, eds., The Changing Role of Nationality in International Law, Routledge, March 2013
Sandra Mantu, Contingent Citizenship: The Law and Practice of Citizenship Deprivation in International, European and National Perspectives, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2015
Michelle Foster & Hélène Lambert, International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2019
Eric Fripp, ed., The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom: Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship, Hart Publishing, Dec. 2014
Caia Vlieks, Nationality and Statelessness in Europe: European Law on Preventing and Solving Statelessness, Intersentia, June 2022
Eric Fripp, Nationality and Statelessness in the International Law of Refugee Status, Hart Publishing, Sept. 2016
Alice Edwards & Laura van Waas, eds., Nationality and Statelessness under International Law, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2014
Olivier W. Vonk, Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2014
Laura van Waas, Nationality Matters: Statelessness under International Law, School of Human Rights Research Series, vol. 29, Intersentia, 2008
Mai Kaneko-Iwase, Nationality of Foundlings: Avoiding Statelessness Among Children of Unknown Parents Under International Nationality Law, Springer, Sept. 2021
Rodziana Mohamed Razali, Safeguarding Against Statelessness at Birth: International Law and Domestic Legal Frameworks of ASEAN Member States, Springer, Jan. 2023
Katia Bianchini, Protecting Stateless Persons: The Implementation of the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons across EU States, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018
Laura Van Waas & Melanie Khanna, eds., Solving Statelessness, Wolf Legal Publishers, Dec. 2016
William E Conklin, Statelessness: The Enigma of the International Community, Hart Publishing, 2014
Solomon Oseghale Momoh, Statelessness Determination Procedures and the Right to Nationality: Nigeria in Comparative Perspective, Routledge, Oct. 2022
Regional law:
General
Andrew Geddes, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj Abdou & Leiza Brumat, eds., The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance, Edward Elgar, June 2019
Europe
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Accessing Asylum in Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law, Oxford University Press, Nov. 2017
David Moya & Georgios Milios, eds., Aliens Before the European Court of Human Rights: Ensuring Minimum Standards of Human Rights Protection, Brill, June 2021
Carolus Grütters, Elspeth Guild & Sebastiaan de Groot, eds., Assessment of Credibility by Judges in Asylum Cases in the EU, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nov. 2013
Francesco Cherubini, Asylum Law in the European Union, Routledge, Nov. 2014
Tamara Butter, Asylum Legal Aid Lawyers' Professional Ethics in Practice: A Study into the Professional Decision Making of Asylum Legal Aid Lawyers in the Netherlands and England, Eleven International Publishing, Jan. 2018
Francesca Ippolito, Gianluca Borzoni & Federico Casolari, eds., Bilateral Relations in the Mediterranean: Prospects for Migration Issues, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2020
Christel Querton, Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2023
Sandra Mantu, Contingent Citizenship: The Law and Practice of Citizenship Deprivation in International, European and National Perspectives, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2015
Valsamis Mitsilegas, The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe: Challenges for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Springer, Nov. 2014
Moritz Baumgärtel, Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press, May 2019
Rory Dunlop & Graham Denholm, eds., Detention under the Immigration Acts: Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, March 2015
Marcelle Reneman, EU Asylum Procedures and the Right to an Effective Remedy, Hart Publishing, May 2014
- See also related doctoral thesis.
Liv Feijen, The Evolution of Humanitarian Protection in European Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021
Sergio Carrera, Arie Pieter Leonhard den Hertog, Marion Panizzon & Dora Kostakopoulou, eds., EU External Migration Policies in an Era of Global Mobilities: Intersecting Policy Universes, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018
Daniel Thym & Kay Hailbronner, eds., EU Immigration and Asylum Law: Article-by-article Commentary, 3rd ed., C.H. Beck, 2022
Steve Peers, Violeta Moreno-Lax, Madeline Garlick & Elspeth Guild, eds., EU Immigration and Asylum Law (Text and Commentary): Second Revised Edition - Volume 3: EU Asylum Law, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2015
Loïc Azoulai & Karin de Vries, eds., EU Migration Law: Legal Complexities and Political Rationales, Volume in "Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law," Oxford University Press, March 2014
Ciara Smyth, European Asylum Law and the Rights of the Child, Routledge, June 2014
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Violeta Moreno-Lax & Niovi Vavoula, eds., Securitising Asylum Flows: Deflection, Criminalisation and Challenges for Human Rights, Brill, March 2020
Céline Bauloz, Meltem Ineli-Ciger, Sarah Singer & Vladislava Stoyanova, eds., Seeking Asylum in the European Union: Selected Protection Issues Raised by the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2015
Sarah Singer, Terrorism and Exclusion from Refugee Status in the UK: Asylum Seekers Suspected of Serious Criminality, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2015
Gina Clayton, Textbook on Immigration and Asylum Law, 7th ed., Oxford University Press, July 2016
Middle East
Francesca Albanese & Lex Takkenberg, Palestinian Refugees in International Law, 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, July 2020
Gilad Ben-Nun, Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and Migration Law, I.B. Tauris, Dec. 2016
Persons with disabilities
Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum & Ben Saul, The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible?, Edward Elgar, Aug. 2017
Stephanie Anna Motz, The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities, Brill, Nov. 2020
Women
Efrat Arbel, Catherine Dauvergne & Jenni Millbank, eds., Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre, Routledge, April 2014
Fulvia Staiano, The Human Rights of Migrant Women in International and European Law, Eleven International Publishing, Dec. 2016
Rashida Manjoo & Jackie Jones, eds., The Legal Protection of Women From Violence: Normative Gaps in International Law, Routledge, April 2018
Human trafficking & migrant smuggling:
Cheryl Taylor Page & Robert William Piatt, Jr., Human Trafficking, Carolina Academic Press, Feb. 2016
Vladislava Stoyanova, Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law, Cambridge University Press, March 2017
Anne T. Gallagher & Fiona David, The International Law of Migrant Smuggling, Cambridge University Press, July 2014
Prabha Kotiswaran, ed., Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery, Cambridge University Press, May 2017
International law:
Armed conflict/IHL, forcible displacement & humanitarian assistance
Megan Bradley & Angela Sherwood, "Addressing and Resolving Internal Displacement: Reflections on a Soft Law," Chapter 8 in Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2017
Mélanie Jacques, Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons under International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2012
Elena Katselli Proukaki, ed., Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement: Individual Rights under International Law, Routledge, March 2018
Linus Jannek Mührel, The Authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross: Determining What International Humanitarian Law Is, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2024
Eve Massingham & Annabel McConnachie, eds., Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law, Routledge, July 2020
Gabriel Cardona-Fox, Exile within Borders: A Global Look at Commitment to the International Regime to Protect Internally Displaced Persons, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018
Gilad Ben-Nun, The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians: The History of International Humanitarian Law, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2020
Hans-Joachim Heintze & Pierre Thielbörger, eds., From Cold War to Cyber War: The Evolution of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict over the last 25 Years, Springer, Aug. 2015
Andrej Zwitter, Christopher K. Lamont, Hans-Joachim Heintze & Joost Herman , eds., Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses, Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2014
Robin Geiss, Andreas Zimmermann & Stefanie Haumer, eds., Humanizing the Laws of War: The Red Cross and the Development of International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press, June 2017
Christy Shucksmith, The International Committee of the Red Cross and Its Mandate to Protect and Assist: Law and Practice, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2017
Walter Kälin, Internal Displacement and the Law, Oxford Univ. Press, July 2023
Romola Adeola, The Internally Displaced Person in International Law, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2020
Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2022
Dug Cubie, The International Legal Protection of Persons in Humanitarian Crises: Exploring the Acquis Humanitaire, Hart Publishing, April 2017
Matthias Vanhullebusch, The Law of International Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts, Brill/Nijhoff, Oct. 2021
Ben Saul & Dapo Akande, eds., The Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2020
Andrew Clapham & Paola Gaeta, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press, May 2014
Daragh Murray, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Francoise Hampson, Charles Garraway, Noam Lubell & Dapo Akande, eds., Practitioners' Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press, Nov. 2016
Phil Orchard, Protecting the Internally Displaced: Rhetoric and Reality, Routledge, Oct. 2018
Haidi Willmot, Ralph Mamiya, Scott Sheeran & Marc Weller, eds., Protection of Civilians, Oxford University Press, May 2016
David James Cantor & Jean-François Durieux, eds., Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Martinus Nijhoff, July 2014
Vanessa Holzer, Refugees from Armed Conflict: The 1951 Refugee Convention and International Humanitarian Law, Intersentia, Aug. 2015
Robert Kolb & Gloria Gaggioli, Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2013
Nigel White & Christian Henderson, eds., Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law: Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello and Jus post Bellum, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2013
Michèle Morel, The Right Not to Be Displaced in International Law, Intersentia, March 2014
Claudie Barrat, Status of NGOs in International Humanitarian Law, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2014
Khaled Hassine & Scott Leckie, The United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: A Commentary, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2015
Migration (incl. by sea)
Violeta Moreno-Lax & Efthymios Papastavridis, eds., 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach - Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2016
Tetsu Sakurai & Mauro Zamboni, eds., Can Human Rights and National Sovereignty Coexist?, Routledge, March 2023
Felicity G. Attard, The Duty of the Shipmaster to Render Assistance at Sea under International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020
Brian Opeskin, Richard Perruchoud, Jillyanne Redpath-Cross, eds., Foundations of International Migration Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2012
Itamar Mann, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2016
Vincent Chetail, ed., International Law and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2016
Irini Papanicolopulu, International Law and the Protection of People at Sea, Oxford University Press, April 2018
Richard Plender, ed., Issues in International Migration Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2015
- Note: Includes several refugee- and asylum-related chapters.
Angela Del Vecchio, ed., "Migration by Sea," Part I in International Law of the Sea: Current Trends and Controversial Issues, Eleven Publishing, Dec. 2013
Anna Liguori, Migration Law and the Externalization of Border Controls: European State Responsibility, Routledge, March 2019
Vincent Chetail & Céline Bauloz, eds., Research Handbook on International Law and Migration, Edward Elgar, March 2014
Katia Bianchini, Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2024
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & Tanja Aalberts, "Search and Rescue as a Geopolitics of International Law," Chapter 8 in The Changing Practices of International Law, Cambridge University Press, April 2018
Women
Efrat Arbel, Catherine Dauvergne & Jenni Millbank, eds., Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre, Routledge, April 2014
Fulvia Staiano, The Human Rights of Migrant Women in International and European Law, Eleven International Publishing, Dec. 2016
Rashida Manjoo & Jackie Jones, eds., The Legal Protection of Women From Violence: Normative Gaps in International Law, Routledge, April 2018
Human trafficking & migrant smuggling:
Cheryl Taylor Page & Robert William Piatt, Jr., Human Trafficking, Carolina Academic Press, Feb. 2016Vladislava Stoyanova, Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law, Cambridge University Press, March 2017
Anne T. Gallagher & Fiona David, The International Law of Migrant Smuggling, Cambridge University Press, July 2014
Prabha Kotiswaran, ed., Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery, Cambridge University Press, May 2017
International law:
Armed conflict/IHL, forcible displacement & humanitarian assistance
Megan Bradley & Angela Sherwood, "Addressing and Resolving Internal Displacement: Reflections on a Soft Law," Chapter 8 in Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2017
Mélanie Jacques, Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons under International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2012
Elena Katselli Proukaki, ed., Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement: Individual Rights under International Law, Routledge, March 2018
Linus Jannek Mührel, The Authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross: Determining What International Humanitarian Law Is, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2024
Eve Massingham & Annabel McConnachie, eds., Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law, Routledge, July 2020
Gabriel Cardona-Fox, Exile within Borders: A Global Look at Commitment to the International Regime to Protect Internally Displaced Persons, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018
Gilad Ben-Nun, The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians: The History of International Humanitarian Law, I.B. Tauris, Feb. 2020
Hans-Joachim Heintze & Pierre Thielbörger, eds., From Cold War to Cyber War: The Evolution of the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict over the last 25 Years, Springer, Aug. 2015
Andrej Zwitter, Christopher K. Lamont, Hans-Joachim Heintze & Joost Herman , eds., Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses, Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2014
Robin Geiss, Andreas Zimmermann & Stefanie Haumer, eds., Humanizing the Laws of War: The Red Cross and the Development of International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press, June 2017
Walter Kälin, Internal Displacement and the Law, Oxford Univ. Press, July 2023
Romola Adeola, The Internally Displaced Person in International Law, Edward Elgar, Oct. 2020
Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law, Oxford Univ. Press, March 2022
Dug Cubie, The International Legal Protection of Persons in Humanitarian Crises: Exploring the Acquis Humanitaire, Hart Publishing, April 2017
Matthias Vanhullebusch, The Law of International Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts, Brill/Nijhoff, Oct. 2021
Ben Saul & Dapo Akande, eds., The Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2020
Andrew Clapham & Paola Gaeta, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press, May 2014
Daragh Murray, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Francoise Hampson, Charles Garraway, Noam Lubell & Dapo Akande, eds., Practitioners' Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict, Oxford University Press, Nov. 2016
Phil Orchard, Protecting the Internally Displaced: Rhetoric and Reality, Routledge, Oct. 2018
Haidi Willmot, Ralph Mamiya, Scott Sheeran & Marc Weller, eds., Protection of Civilians, Oxford University Press, May 2016
David James Cantor & Jean-François Durieux, eds., Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Martinus Nijhoff, July 2014
Vanessa Holzer, Refugees from Armed Conflict: The 1951 Refugee Convention and International Humanitarian Law, Intersentia, Aug. 2015
Robert Kolb & Gloria Gaggioli, Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Edward Elgar, Feb. 2013
Nigel White & Christian Henderson, eds., Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law: Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello and Jus post Bellum, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2013
Michèle Morel, The Right Not to Be Displaced in International Law, Intersentia, March 2014
Claudie Barrat, Status of NGOs in International Humanitarian Law, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2014
Khaled Hassine & Scott Leckie, The United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons: A Commentary, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2015
Migration (incl. by sea)
Violeta Moreno-Lax & Efthymios Papastavridis, eds., 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach - Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2016
Tetsu Sakurai & Mauro Zamboni, eds., Can Human Rights and National Sovereignty Coexist?, Routledge, March 2023
Felicity G. Attard, The Duty of the Shipmaster to Render Assistance at Sea under International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020
Itamar Mann, Humanity at Sea: Maritime Migration and the Foundations of International Law, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2016
Vincent Chetail, ed., International Law and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2016
Irini Papanicolopulu, International Law and the Protection of People at Sea, Oxford University Press, April 2018
Vincent Chetail, International Migration Law, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2019
Richard Plender, ed., Issues in International Migration Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2015
- Note: Includes several refugee- and asylum-related chapters.
Angela Del Vecchio, ed., "Migration by Sea," Part I in International Law of the Sea: Current Trends and Controversial Issues, Eleven Publishing, Dec. 2013
Marie-Claire Foblets & Jean-Yves Carlier, eds., Law and Migration in a Changing World, Springer, March 2022
Angela Del Vecchio, ed., "Migration by Sea," Part I in International Law of the Sea: Current Trends and Controversial Issues, Eleven Publishing, Dec. 2013
Vincent Chetail & Céline Bauloz, eds., Research Handbook on International Law and Migration, Edward Elgar, March 2014
Katia Bianchini, Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2024
Mark Gibney, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Markus Krajewski & Wouter Vandenhole, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, Routledge, Dec. 2021
- Part III focuses on migration and refugee protection.
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen & Tanja Aalberts, "Search and Rescue as a Geopolitics of International Law," Chapter 8 in The Changing Practices of International Law, Cambridge University Press, April 2018
Oreva Olakpe, South-South Migrations and the Law from Below: Case Studies on China and Nigeria, Hart Publishing, May 2023
Refugees & asylum
Andreas Zimmermann, Terje Einarsen & Franziska M. Herrmann, eds., The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2024
T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Leah Zamore, The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, Stanford Univ. Press, Oct. 2019
Mélanie Jacques, Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons under International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2012
Vincent Chetail & Caroline Laly-Chevalier, eds., Asile et Extradition: Théorie et Pratique de l'Exclusion du Statut de Réfugié, Bruylant, Aug. 2014
Satvinder Singh Juss & Colin Harvey, eds., Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, August 2013
Refugees & asylum
Mélanie Jacques, Armed Conflict and Displacement: The Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons under International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2012
Satvinder Singh Juss & Colin Harvey, eds., Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, August 2013
Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins, Crimmigration under International Protection: Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality, Routledge, March 2023
Heike Niebergall-Lackner, "The Deserter in a Country of Refuge," Chapter 4 in the Status and Treatment of Deserters in International Armed Conflicts, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2016
Laura Hughes-Gerber, Diplomatic Asylum: Exploring a Legal Basis for the Practice Under General International Law, Springer, May 2021
Emma Dunlop, Ensuring Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2024
Z. Yakut-Bahtiyar, Exclusion Clauses of the Refugee Convention in Relation to National Immigration Legislations, European Policy and Human Rights Instruments: Article 1F Versus the Non-Refoulement Principle, Wolf Legal Publishers, April 2016
Yao Li, Exclusion from Protection as a Refugee: An Approach to a Harmonizing Interpretation in International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2017
Jean-Pierre Gauci, Mariagiulia Giuffré & Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, eds., Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law: Current Protection Challenges, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2015
Ruth Rubio-Marín, ed., Human Rights and Immigration, Volume in "Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law," Oxford University Press, Jan. 2014
James C. Hathaway, ed., Human Rights and Refugee Law, 2 vols., Edward Elgar, Dec. 2013
Bruce Burson & David James Cantor, eds., Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2016
Romit Bhandari, Human Rights and the Revision of Refugee Law, Routledge, Aug. 2020
Volker Türk, Alice Edwards & Cornelis Wouters, eds., In Flight from Conflict and Violence: UNHCR's Consultations on Refugee Status and Other Forms of International Protection, Cambridge University Press, Feb. 2017
Jessica Schultz, The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law: Treaty Basis and Scope of Application under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018
Rafiqul Islam & Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, eds., An Introduction to International Refugee Law, Martinus Nijhoff, May 2013
Anthea Vogl, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2024
Simon Behrman, Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance, Routledge, June 2018
James C. Hathaway & Michelle Foster, The Law of Refugee Status, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2014
Fanny de Weck, Non-Refoulement under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention against Torture: The Assessment of Individual Complaints by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 3 ECHR and the United Nations Committee against Torture under Article 3 CAT, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2016
Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster & McAdam, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford Univ. Press, June 2021
Francesca Albanese & Lex Takkenberg, Palestinian Refugees in International Law, 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, July 2020
Mathilde Crépin, Persecution, International Refugee Law and Refugees: A Feminist Approach, Routledge, July 2020
Eman Hamdan, The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2016
Maja Janmyr, Protecting Civilians in Refugee Camps: Unable and Unwilling States, UNHCR and International Responsibility, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2013
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Philippe Weckel, eds., Protection des migrants et des réfugiées au XXIe siècle: aspects de droit international = Migration and Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: International Legal Aspects, Les livres de droit de l'Académie = The Law Books of the Academy, vol. 36, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2015
Kate Ogg, Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2022
Marion Tissier-Raffin, La Qualité de Réfugié de l’Article 1 de la Convention de Genève à la Lumière des Jurisprudences Occidentales, Bruylant, Dec. 2016
Lieneke Slingenberg, The Reception of Asylum Seekers under International Law: Between Sovereignty and Equality, Hart Publishing, July 2014
David James Cantor & Jean-François Durieux, eds., Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Martinus Nijhoff, July 2014
Daniel Ghezelbash, Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2018
- Note: Focuses particularly on the United States and Australia.
Heike Niebergall-Lackner, "The Deserter in a Country of Refuge," Chapter 4 in the Status and Treatment of Deserters in International Armed Conflicts, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2016
Laura Hughes-Gerber, Diplomatic Asylum: Exploring a Legal Basis for the Practice Under General International Law, Springer, May 2021
Emma Dunlop, Ensuring Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2024
Z. Yakut-Bahtiyar, Exclusion Clauses of the Refugee Convention in Relation to National Immigration Legislations, European Policy and Human Rights Instruments: Article 1F Versus the Non-Refoulement Principle, Wolf Legal Publishers, April 2016
Yao Li, Exclusion from Protection as a Refugee: An Approach to a Harmonizing Interpretation in International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2017
Jean-Pierre Gauci, Mariagiulia Giuffré & Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, eds., Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law: Current Protection Challenges, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2015
Ruth Rubio-Marín, ed., Human Rights and Immigration, Volume in "Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law," Oxford University Press, Jan. 2014
James C. Hathaway, ed., Human Rights and Refugee Law, 2 vols., Edward Elgar, Dec. 2013
Bruce Burson & David James Cantor, eds., Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2016
Romit Bhandari, Human Rights and the Revision of Refugee Law, Routledge, Aug. 2020
Volker Türk, Alice Edwards & Cornelis Wouters, eds., In Flight from Conflict and Violence: UNHCR's Consultations on Refugee Status and Other Forms of International Protection, Cambridge University Press, Feb. 2017
Jessica Schultz, The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law: Treaty Basis and Scope of Application under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018
Rafiqul Islam & Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, eds., An Introduction to International Refugee Law, Martinus Nijhoff, May 2013
Anthea Vogl, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2024
Simon Behrman, Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance, Routledge, June 2018
James C. Hathaway & Michelle Foster, The Law of Refugee Status, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2014
Fanny de Weck, Non-Refoulement under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention against Torture: The Assessment of Individual Complaints by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 3 ECHR and the United Nations Committee against Torture under Article 3 CAT, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2016
- Note: See also this related blog post with links to preprints of books chapters.
Francesca Albanese & Lex Takkenberg, Palestinian Refugees in International Law, 2nd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, July 2020
Mathilde Crépin, Persecution, International Refugee Law and Refugees: A Feminist Approach, Routledge, July 2020
Eman Hamdan, The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2016
Maja Janmyr, Protecting Civilians in Refugee Camps: Unable and Unwilling States, UNHCR and International Responsibility, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2013
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Philippe Weckel, eds., Protection des migrants et des réfugiées au XXIe siècle: aspects de droit international = Migration and Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: International Legal Aspects, Les livres de droit de l'Académie = The Law Books of the Academy, vol. 36, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2015
Kate Ogg, Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2022
Marion Tissier-Raffin, La Qualité de Réfugié de l’Article 1 de la Convention de Genève à la Lumière des Jurisprudences Occidentales, Bruylant, Dec. 2016
Lieneke Slingenberg, The Reception of Asylum Seekers under International Law: Between Sovereignty and Equality, Hart Publishing, July 2014
David James Cantor & Jean-François Durieux, eds., Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Martinus Nijhoff, July 2014
Daniel Ghezelbash, Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World, Cambridge Univ. Press, Feb. 2018
- Note: Focuses particularly on the United States and Australia.
Hugo Storey, The Refugee Definition in International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Oct. 2023
Colin Yeo, Refugee Law, Bristol Univ. Press, April 2022
Maria O’Sullivan, Refugee Law and Durability of Protection: Temporary Residence and Cessation of Status, Routledge, May 2019
Karen Musalo, Jennifer Moore, Richard A. Boswell & Annie Daher, Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach, 5th ed., Carolina Academic Press, Aug. 2018
Susan Kneebone, Dallal Stevens & Loretta Baldassar, eds., Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities, Routledge, June 2014
Erika Feller, Volker Türk & Frances Nicholson, eds., Refugee Protection in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Mary Crock, ed., Refugees and Rights, Routledge, Dec. 2015
Denard Veshi, Refugees and the Law in Challenging Times: A Law and Economics Approach, Springer, July 2024
Dana Schmalz, Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State, Routledge, Sept. 2020
Vanessa Holzer, Refugees from Armed Conflict: The 1951 Refugee Convention and International Humanitarian Law, Intersentia, Aug. 2015
Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade, eds., Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Satvinder Singh Juss, ed., Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2019
Marjoleine Zieck, Resettlement as Protection: Integrating Resettlement of Refugees in International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2024
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, The Right of an Alien to be Protected against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, March 2015
Marc Bossuyt, Right to Asylum: Between Demagogy and Hypocrisy, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2025
Rawan Diab, The Right to Asylum in International Law and Legal Philosophy: The Syrian Conflict and Refugee Crisis, Transnational Press London, Dec. 2023
James C. Simeon, ed., Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration, Routledge, Feb. 2022
Maria O'Sullivan & Dallal Stevens, eds., States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection: Fortresses and Fairness, Hart Publishing, March 2017
Richard Grimes, Vera Honuskova & Ulrich Stege, eds., Teaching Migration and Asylum Law: Theory and Practice, Routledge, Dec. 2021
Meltem Ineli-Ciger, Temporary Protection in Law and Practice, Brill/Nijhoff, Jan. 2018
James C. Simeon, ed., Terrorism and Asylum, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2020
Laura Westra, Satvinder Juss & Tullio Scovazzi, Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum, Routledge, June 2015
Nikolas Feith Tan, Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework, Routledge, Feb. 2025
James C. Simeon, ed., The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2013
Jill I. Goldenziel, "When Law Migrates: Refugees in Comparative International Law," Chapter in Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2018
Nationality & statelessness:
Sandra Mantu, Contingent Citizenship: The Law and Practice of Citizenship Deprivation in International, European and National Perspectives, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2015
Michelle Foster & Hélène Lambert, International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons, Oxford Univ. Press, April 2019
Eric Fripp, ed., The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom: Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship, Hart Publishing, Dec. 2014
Caia Vlieks, Nationality and Statelessness in Europe: European Law on Preventing and Solving Statelessness, Intersentia, June 2022
Eric Fripp, Nationality and Statelessness in the International Law of Refugee Status, Hart Publishing, Sept. 2016
Alice Edwards & Laura van Waas, eds., Nationality and Statelessness under International Law, Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2014
Olivier W. Vonk, Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2014
Mai Kaneko-Iwase, Nationality of Foundlings: Avoiding Statelessness Among Children of Unknown Parents Under International Nationality Law, Springer, Sept. 2021
Rodziana Mohamed Razali, Safeguarding Against Statelessness at Birth: International Law and Domestic Legal Frameworks of ASEAN Member States, Springer, Jan. 2023
Katia Bianchini, Protecting Stateless Persons: The Implementation of the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons across EU States, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018
Laura Van Waas & Melanie Khanna, eds., Solving Statelessness, Wolf Legal Publishers, Dec. 2016
William E Conklin, Statelessness: The Enigma of the International Community, Hart Publishing, 2014
Solomon Oseghale Momoh, Statelessness Determination Procedures and the Right to Nationality: Nigeria in Comparative Perspective, Routledge, Oct. 2022
Regional law:
General
Andrew Geddes, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj Abdou & Leiza Brumat, eds., The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance, Edward Elgar, June 2019
Hélène Lambert, Jane McAdam & Maryellen Fullerton, eds., The Global Reach of European Refugee Law, Cambridge University Press, Oct. 2013
Pauline Maillet, Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-Citizens from Rights through Extra-Territoriality at Home, Brill, Dec. 2019
Ademola Abass & Francesca Ippolito, eds., Regional Approaches to the Protection of Asylum Seekers: An International Legal Perspective, Ashgate/Routledge, March 2014
Africa
Romola Adeola, Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa: The Kampala Convention, Routledge, Sept. 2020
Allehone M. Abebe, The Emerging Law of Forced Displacement in Africa: Development and Implementation of the Kampala Convention on Internal Displacement, Routledge, Sept. 2016
Romola Adeola, Internally Displaced Persons and the Law in Nigeria, Routledge, Nov. 2021
Mehari Taddele Maru, The Kampala Convention and Its Contributions to International Law: Legal Analyses and Interpretations of the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons, Eleven International Publishing, June 2014
Chaloka Beyani, Protection of the Right to Seek and Obtain Asylum under the African Human Rights System, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2013
Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier, eds., Refugee Law in South Africa, Juta and Co., 2014
Marina Sharpe, The Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa, Oxford University Press, July 2018
Americas
Dree K. Collopy, AILA's Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 8th ed., American Immigration Lawyers Association, Aug. 2019
Gabriel J. Chin & Rose Cuison Villazor, eds., The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America, Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2015
Richard A. Boswell, Immigration and Nationality Law: Cases and Materials, 5th ed., Carolina Academic Press, July 2018
Lenni B. Benson, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies, Carolina Academic Press, Dec. 2019
Deborah Anker, Law of Asylum in the United States, Thomson Reuters, 2022
David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier & Jean-Pierre Gauci, eds., A Liberal Tide?: Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, April 2015
Olivier W. Vonk, Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2014
Adam B. Cox & Cristina M. Rodríguez, The President and Immigration Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2020
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Refugee Law after 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States, UBC Press, Feb. 2020
Hilary Evans Cameron, Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge University Press, May 2018
David James Cantor, Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict: International Law and Its Application in Colombia, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018
Irwin P. Stotzky, Send Them Back, Carolina Academic Press, June 2018
- Focuses on litigation to support Haitian refugees in the U.S.
Ayodele Gansallo & Judith Bernstein-Baker, Understanding Immigration Law and Practice, Wolters Kluwer, Sept. 2016
Asia Pacific
Guofu Liu, Chinese Refugee Law, Brill, Nov. 2019
Lili Song, Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press, May 2020
Eve Lester, Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia, Cambridge University Press, March 2018
Sarker Shuvro Prosun, Refugee Law in India: The Road from Ambiguity to Protection, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2017
Petrice R. Flowers, Refugee Policies in East Asia, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025
Pauline Maillet, Nowhere Countries: Exclusion of Non-Citizens from Rights through Extra-Territoriality at Home, Brill, Dec. 2019
Ademola Abass & Francesca Ippolito, eds., Regional Approaches to the Protection of Asylum Seekers: An International Legal Perspective, Ashgate/Routledge, March 2014
Africa
Allehone M. Abebe, The Emerging Law of Forced Displacement in Africa: Development and Implementation of the Kampala Convention on Internal Displacement, Routledge, Sept. 2016
Romola Adeola, Internally Displaced Persons and the Law in Nigeria, Routledge, Nov. 2021
Mehari Taddele Maru, The Kampala Convention and Its Contributions to International Law: Legal Analyses and Interpretations of the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons, Eleven International Publishing, June 2014
Chaloka Beyani, Protection of the Right to Seek and Obtain Asylum under the African Human Rights System, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2013
Fatima Khan & Tal Schreier, eds., Refugee Law in South Africa, Juta and Co., 2014
Marina Sharpe, The Regional Law of Refugee Protection in Africa, Oxford University Press, July 2018
Americas
Dree K. Collopy, AILA's Asylum Primer: A Practical Guide to U.S. Asylum Law and Procedure, 8th ed., American Immigration Lawyers Association, Aug. 2019Gabriel J. Chin & Rose Cuison Villazor, eds., The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America, Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2015
Richard A. Boswell, Immigration and Nationality Law: Cases and Materials, 5th ed., Carolina Academic Press, July 2018
Lenni B. Benson, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr & Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies, Carolina Academic Press, Dec. 2019
Deborah Anker, Law of Asylum in the United States, Thomson Reuters, 2022
David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier & Jean-Pierre Gauci, eds., A Liberal Tide?: Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, April 2015
Olivier W. Vonk, Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2014
Adam B. Cox & Cristina M. Rodríguez, The President and Immigration Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Sept. 2020
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Refugee Law after 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States, UBC Press, Feb. 2020
Hilary Evans Cameron, Refugee Law's Fact-Finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge University Press, May 2018
David James Cantor, Returns of Internally Displaced Persons during Armed Conflict: International Law and Its Application in Colombia, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2018
Irwin P. Stotzky, Send Them Back, Carolina Academic Press, June 2018
- Focuses on litigation to support Haitian refugees in the U.S.
Ayodele Gansallo & Judith Bernstein-Baker, Understanding Immigration Law and Practice, Wolters Kluwer, Sept. 2016
Asia Pacific
Lili Song, Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press, May 2020
Eve Lester, Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia, Cambridge University Press, March 2018
Sarker Shuvro Prosun, Refugee Law in India: The Road from Ambiguity to Protection, Palgrave Macmillan, Aug. 2017
Petrice R. Flowers, Refugee Policies in East Asia, Cambridge Univ. Press, Jan. 2025
Jane McAdam & Fiona Chong, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: A Frank, Up-to-date Guide by Experts, New South Books, July 2019
Patricia Rushton, Sovereignty, Migration and the Law: The Exclusion of Non-Citizens, Routledge, Dec. 2024
- Uses Australia as a case study.
Europe
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Accessing Asylum in Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law, Oxford University Press, Nov. 2017
David Moya & Georgios Milios, eds., Aliens Before the European Court of Human Rights: Ensuring Minimum Standards of Human Rights Protection, Brill, June 2021
Carolus Grütters, Elspeth Guild & Sebastiaan de Groot, eds., Assessment of Credibility by Judges in Asylum Cases in the EU, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nov. 2013
Francesco Cherubini, Asylum Law in the European Union, Routledge, Nov. 2014
Tamara Butter, Asylum Legal Aid Lawyers' Professional Ethics in Practice: A Study into the Professional Decision Making of Asylum Legal Aid Lawyers in the Netherlands and England, Eleven International Publishing, Jan. 2018
Christel Querton, Conflict Refugees: European Union Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, July 2023
Sandra Mantu, Contingent Citizenship: The Law and Practice of Citizenship Deprivation in International, European and National Perspectives, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2015
Valsamis Mitsilegas, The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe: Challenges for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Springer, Nov. 2014
Moritz Baumgärtel, Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press, May 2019
Rory Dunlop & Graham Denholm, eds., Detention under the Immigration Acts: Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, March 2015
Marcelle Reneman, EU Asylum Procedures and the Right to an Effective Remedy, Hart Publishing, May 2014
- See also related doctoral thesis.
Liv Feijen, The Evolution of Humanitarian Protection in European Law and Practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, April 2021
Sergio Carrera, Arie Pieter Leonhard den Hertog, Marion Panizzon & Dora Kostakopoulou, eds., EU External Migration Policies in an Era of Global Mobilities: Intersecting Policy Universes, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2018
Daniel Thym & Kay Hailbronner, eds., EU Immigration and Asylum Law: Article-by-article Commentary, 3rd ed., C.H. Beck, 2022
Steve Peers, Violeta Moreno-Lax, Madeline Garlick & Elspeth Guild, eds., EU Immigration and Asylum Law (Text and Commentary): Second Revised Edition - Volume 3: EU Asylum Law, Brill/Nijhoff, April 2015
Loïc Azoulai & Karin de Vries, eds., EU Migration Law: Legal Complexities and Political Rationales, Volume in "Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law," Oxford University Press, March 2014
Ciara Smyth, European Asylum Law and the Rights of the Child, Routledge, June 2014
Giulia Raimondo, The European Integrated Border Management: Frontex, Human Rights, and International Responsibility, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2024
Maria Fletcher, Ester Herlin-Karnell & Claudio Matera, eds., The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Routledge, Dec. 2016
- See esp. "Part III: Border controls, Immigration, Asylum and AFSJ Paradigms."
Izabella Majcher, The European Union Returns Directive and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Law: Analysis of Return Decision, Entry Ban, Detention, and Removal, Brill, Nov. 2019
Z. Yakut-Bahtiyar, Exclusion Clauses of the Refugee Convention in Relation to National Immigration Legislations, European Policy and Human Rights Instruments: Article 1F Versus the Non-Refoulement Principle, Wolf Legal Publishers, April 2016
Roberta Mungianu, Frontex and Non-Refoulement: The International Responsibility of the EU, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2016
Martijn Stronks, Grasping Legal Time: Temporality and European Migration Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022
Fulvia Staiano, The Human Rights of Migrant Women in International and European Law, Eleven International Publishing, Dec. 2016
Cathryn Costello, The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2015
Vladislava Stoyanova, Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law, Cambridge University Press, March 2017
Benedita Menezes Queiroz, Illegally Staying in the EU: An Analysis of Illegality in EU Migration Law, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2018
Gina Clayton & Georgina Firth, Immigration & Asylum Law, 8th ed., Oxford University Press, July 2018
Agnieszka Kubal, Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia: Socio-Legal Perspectives, Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2019
Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie, Frances Allen, Julia Gasparro & Jo Swaney, Immigration Law Handbook, 10th ed., Oxford University Press, April 2018
Sheona York, The Impact of UK Immigration Law: Declining Standards of Public Administration, Legal Probity and Democratic Accountability, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2022
Madalina Moraru, Galina Cornelisse & Philippe De Bruycker, eds., Law and Judicial Dialogue on the Return of Irregular Migrants from the European Union, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2020
Eric Fripp, ed., The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom: Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship, Hart Publishing, Dec. 2014
Başak Çalı, Ledi Bianku & Iulia Motoc, eds., Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021
Anna Liguori, Migration Law and the Externalization of Border Controls: European State Responsibility, Routledge, March 2019
Vladislava Stoyanova & Eleni Karageorgiou, eds., The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe during and in the Aftermath of the 2015/2016 Crisis, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2018
Fanny de Weck, Non-Refoulement under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention against Torture: The Assessment of Individual Complaints by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 3 ECHR and the United Nations Committee against Torture under Article 3 CAT, Brill/Nijhoff, Oct. 2016
Eman Hamdan, The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2016
Sophie Scholten, The Privatisation of Immigration Control Through Carrier Sanctions: The Role of Private Transport Companies in Dutch and British Immigration Control, Brill/Nijhoff, Aug. 2015
Lisa Heschl, Protecting the Rights of Refugees Beyond European Borders: Establishing Extraterritorial Legal Responsibilities, Intersentia, April 2018
Julian Lehmann, 'Protection' in European Union Asylum Law: International and European Law Requirements for Assessing Available Protection as a Criterion for Refugee and Subsidiary Status, Brill/Nijhoff, Sept. 2020
Samantha Velluti, Reforming the Common European Asylum System: Legislative Developments and Judicial Activism of the European Courts, Springer, Oct. 2013
Vincent Chetail, Philippe de Bruycker & Francesco Maiani, eds., Reforming the Common European Asylum System: The New European Refugee Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Feb. 2016
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi & Philippe De Bruycker, eds., Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law, Edward Elgar, Dec. 2022
Aoife McMahon, The Role of the State in Migration Control: The Legitimacy Gap and Moves towards a Regional Model, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2016
Leonhard den Hertog, The Rule of Law in the External Dimension of EU Migration and Asylum Policy, Wolf Legal Publishers, Oct. 2014
Maria Fletcher, Ester Herlin-Karnell & Claudio Matera, eds., The European Union as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Routledge, Dec. 2016
- See esp. "Part III: Border controls, Immigration, Asylum and AFSJ Paradigms."
Izabella Majcher, The European Union Returns Directive and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Law: Analysis of Return Decision, Entry Ban, Detention, and Removal, Brill, Nov. 2019
Z. Yakut-Bahtiyar, Exclusion Clauses of the Refugee Convention in Relation to National Immigration Legislations, European Policy and Human Rights Instruments: Article 1F Versus the Non-Refoulement Principle, Wolf Legal Publishers, April 2016
Roberta Mungianu, Frontex and Non-Refoulement: The International Responsibility of the EU, Cambridge University Press, Aug. 2016
Martijn Stronks, Grasping Legal Time: Temporality and European Migration Law, Cambridge Univ. Press, May 2022
Fulvia Staiano, The Human Rights of Migrant Women in International and European Law, Eleven International Publishing, Dec. 2016
Cathryn Costello, The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2015
Vladislava Stoyanova, Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law, Cambridge University Press, March 2017
Benedita Menezes Queiroz, Illegally Staying in the EU: An Analysis of Illegality in EU Migration Law, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2018
Gina Clayton & Georgina Firth, Immigration & Asylum Law, 8th ed., Oxford University Press, July 2018
Niovi Vavoula, Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union: The Case of Information Systems, Martinus Nijhoff, Aug. 2022
Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie, Frances Allen, Julia Gasparro & Jo Swaney, Immigration Law Handbook, 10th ed., Oxford University Press, April 2018
Sheona York, The Impact of UK Immigration Law: Declining Standards of Public Administration, Legal Probity and Democratic Accountability, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2022
Madalina Moraru, Galina Cornelisse & Philippe De Bruycker, eds., Law and Judicial Dialogue on the Return of Irregular Migrants from the European Union, Hart Publishing, Aug. 2020
Eric Fripp, ed., The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom: Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship, Hart Publishing, Dec. 2014
Başak Çalı, Ledi Bianku & Iulia Motoc, eds., Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford Univ. Press, Feb. 2021
Anna Liguori, Migration Law and the Externalization of Border Controls: European State Responsibility, Routledge, March 2019
Vladislava Stoyanova & Eleni Karageorgiou, eds., The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe during and in the Aftermath of the 2015/2016 Crisis, Brill/Nijhoff, Nov. 2018
Fanny de Weck, Non-Refoulement under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention against Torture: The Assessment of Individual Complaints by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 3 ECHR and the United Nations Committee against Torture under Article 3 CAT, Brill/Nijhoff, Oct. 2016
Eman Hamdan, The Principle of Non-Refoulement under the ECHR and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Brill/Nijhoff, May 2016
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Pauline Endres de Oliveira, Safe Access to Asylum in Europe: Normative Assessment of Safe Pathways to Protection in the Legal Context of the European Union, Nomos, May 2024
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Natasa Mavronicola, Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs, Hart Publishing, Feb. 2021
- Note: Part 7 focuses on "Specifying the Non-Refoulement Duty under Article 3 ECHR."
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Gilad Ben-Nun, Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and Migration Law, I.B. Tauris, Dec. 2016
Lena El-Malak, Stolen Nation: The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees, I.B. Tauris, Dec. 2024
