Climate migrants as the new stateless persons
Seminar
Professor James Hathaway

Date & time

14 November 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Venue

Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law

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Event description

It is frequently asserted that international law is not up to the challenge of protecting persons forced to flee their homes due to climate change and natural disaster.  This presentation challenges that position even as it concedes that extant protection regimes do leave a coverage gap that needs to be filled.  Rather than relying on refugee law to answer the normative challenge, this presentation opens the door to considering the alternative of statelessness as a more conceptually appropriate and politically wiser alternative.

Speakers

Professor James Hathaway

Professor James Hathaway

James C. Hathaway is the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He works in the field of public international law, with a focus on international human rights law, international queer rights, and international refugee law. Before his retirement from the teaching faculty in 2022, Hathaway served as the founding director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan from 1998 to 2022.