The Courts, Climate Change, Migrant and Refugee Rights

How can courts shape the development of law related to the rights of refugees and migrants in response to global climate change? This event, jointly organized by IRLIG and MILIG and co-sponsored by the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights (GSLC), will explore the current state of international migration and refugee law and human rights applicable to those displaced by global climate change; how the law should evolve to meet the current mobility challenges; and practical avenues in international, regional, and national courts to facilitate the progressive development of the law for the protection of the rights of those moving in the context of climate change.

Speakers:

• Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
• Jane McAdam AO, Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales
• Matthew Scott, Senior Researcher, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
• Melissa Stewart (moderator), Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Co-Chair ASIL MLIG

This session is organized by ASIL’s Migration Law Interest Group and International Refugee Law Interest Group and co-sponsored by the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights (GSLC).