Regional launch of The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

This book launch event will focus on one of the key challenges facing international refugee law, externalisation of protection obligations. Convened by the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) at Maastricht University, and co-sponsored by the European Society of International Law (ESIL), and Oxford University Press (OUP).

The Maastricht Centre for European Law, the European Society of International Law, and Oxford University Press cordially invite you to a debate-event on 17th June 2021 with a focus on Europe’s externalisation practices and their impact on refugee protection, part of a series of events launching The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (OUP 2021). 

The event will feature input from two Handbook contributors, Dr. Lilian Tsourdi (Maastricht University & Dutch Research Council) and Prof. Luisa Feline Freier (Universidad del Pacífico) and responses by three leading early career scholars, Dr. Meltem Ineli-Ciger (Suleyman Demirel University), Adel-Naim Reyhani (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights/Austria) and Nasrat Sayed (Maastricht University), Prof. Cathryn Costello (Hertie School of Governance & Oxford University), a co-editor of the Handbook, will moderate discussions.