Legal Texts

This is a list of the legal texts that have been referenced on both my former Pinterest page and on this book blog. The titles published since Nov. 2012 are organized thematically, then by title. To search for specific references on this page, use the "Find" (ctrl-F) function on your keyboard.

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.

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

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 and Katja L.H. Samuel, eds., Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
- 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

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

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

Satvinder Singh Juss, ed., Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar, Sept. 2019

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

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

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

Barbara von Rütte, The Human Right to Citizenship: Situating the Right to Citizenship within International and Regional Human Rights Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Dec. 2022

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

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

Jane McAdam & Fiona Chong, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: A Frank, Up-to-date Guide by Experts, New South Books, July 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, 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

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

Angela Del Vecchio, ed., "Migration by Sea," Part I in International Law of the Sea:Current Trends and Controversial Issues, Eleven Publishing, Dec. 2013

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

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

- Note: Part 7 focuses on "Specifying the Non-Refoulement Duty under Article 3 ECHR."

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