Call for Papers for January 2017 AALS Annual Meeting Program: “Asylum from Persecution by Non-State Actors: Upholding and Updating Refugee Protection”
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Immigration Law invites the submission of papers to select one or two speakers for the program on Thursday, January 5, 2017, 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. at the AALS annual meeting in San Francisco. The program description follows:
The rise of the non-state persecutor is one of the most significant developments in refugee and asylum law in recent years. We see the impact of the non-state persecutor all around the world, with the rise of ISIS and other non-state militant movements in the Middle East, the proliferation of criminal gang and drug cartel attacks in Central America and Mexico, and the brutal spread of domestic violence everywhere. How has refugee and asylum law responded? How should the law respond? For example, is the traditional distinction between asylum seekers and internally displaced persons still relevant when our concepts of statehood are changing? When the persecutor is an abusive spouse or a neighborhood gang, are you a refugee or merely a migrant? And is the rise of asylum fatigue connected to the shifting identify of persecutors? This panel explores the impact of the non-state persecutor on refugee protection.
Submission Deadline and Procedures: Deadline is August 1, 2016. Papers and abstracts should be submitted by email to Professor Huyen Pham, Texas A&M School of Law, hpham@law.tamu.edu.
Proposal Requirements: There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals, although preference will be given to proposals that are substantially complete. A paper may have already been accepted for publication as long as it will not have been published prior to the Annual Meeting.
KJ