TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR 5TH EDITION REVISION

Section I
Introduction to International Refugee Law: Background and Context

1. History of Population Movements: Migrants, Immigrants, Internally Displaced

Persons, and Refugees
a. The Concepts
b. The Theories
c. The Actual Movements

2. The Legal and Institutional Framework for Refugee Protection

a. The Evolution of the International Refugee Regime
b. The Universal Standard: the 1951 Geneva Convention
Refugee Definition and the Statute of the UNHCR
i. Prior Definitions: Group Specific; Geographically
and Temporally Limited
ii. 1951 Geneva Convention: Universal Applicability; Optional
Geographical and Temporal Limits
iii. Expansion via the 1967 Protocol
c. Contemporary Alternative Refugee Definitions
i. Africa
ii. Latin America
iii. Europe
d. Institutions and Actors in International Law Relevant to Refugee Protection

3. Overview of National Legal Framework, Institutions, and Actors

a. The Interface Between International Law and National Law
b. Comparing National Systems

Section II
International Framework for Refugee Protection

1. Universal Principles and Concepts of Refugee Protection

a. Non-refoulement
i. Core Principles
ii. Interception and Rescue at Sea
b. Asylum
c. Temporary Protection
d. Non-discrimination
e. Family Unity
f. Durable Solutions
g. International Cooperation

2. The 1951 Geneva Convention

a. Access to Territory and Access to Procedures
 i. Article 33 non-refoulement
ii. Article 31 illegal entry

b. Procedures for Granting Protection

i. Reception
ii. Detention
iii. Basic Procedural Requirements
(a) Standards of Proof
(b) Credibility
(c) Special Issues
(i) Post Traumatic Stress
(ii) Gender Sensitive Techniques
c. Criteria for Granting Protection
i. Alienage
(a) Outside the Country of Nationality
(b) Owing to Fear Is Unable or Unwilling to Avail Self of
Protection of Country of Nationality
(c) Dual or Multiple Nationality
(d) Stateless
ii. Well-founded Fear
iii. Persecution
(a) Acts of Persecution
(b) Agents of Persecution
(c) Five Grounds: Race, Religion, Nationality, Social Group,
Political Opinion
iv. Internal Protection Alternative
v. Exclusion from Convention Refugee Status
d. Rights and Obligations of Refugees
e. Cessation of Protection and Removal
c. Groups with special Needs
i. Women
ii. Children
iii. Elderly
3. Other Forms of Universal Protection (Beyond Refugee Protection)
a. Temporary Protection
b. Humanitarian Protection
c. Internally Displaced Persons

4. Other Universal Instruments of Protection

a. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
b. The UN International Convenant for Civil and Political Rights
c. The UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment
d. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
e. The Geneva Conventions and Protocols: Miinimum Standards in Times of
War