Throwback Thursday: Jennifer Moore

Throwback photos of Prof. Moore are hard to find. But I did locate this one!

Simple Justice: Humanitarian Law as a Defense Against Deportation, 4 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 11 (1991), was immmprof Jennifer Moore‘s very first law review article. It was published in 1991, just as Moore was starting her first post with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in West Africa.

You may know Moore’s work today, especially as she is a co-author of the first textbook on refugee law: Refugee Law and Policy (with immprofs Karen Musalo and Richard Boswell).

Her 1991 article looks at the relationship between refugee law and humanitarian law. She argues that immigration judges should use the Geneva Conventions as well as the Refugee Convention in determining relief from deportation for individuals fleeing persecution in the context of civil war violence characterized by widespread attacks on civilians. While such individuals cannot obtain refugee status, Moore argues they should have a “humanitarian law defense” to deportation.

-KitJ