Symposium Issue: Uncovering Asylum: A Conversation on Refugee Law, Sexual Orientation, and Moving Towards a Just Jurisprudence

The NYU Jouranl of International Law and Politics symposium issue on “Uncovering Asylum:  A Conversation on Refugee Law, Sexual Orientation, and Moving Towards a Just Jurisprudence,” is now on-line.  Here is the table of contents:

Jeffrey D. Stein, A Brief Introduction to the Conversation

James C. Hathaway and Jason Pobjoy, Queer Cases Make Bad Law

Richard Buxton, A History from Across the Pond

Ryan Goodman, Asylum and the Concealment of Sexual Orientation: Where Not to Draw the Line

John Tobin, Assessing GLBTI Refugee Claims: Using Human Rights Law to Shift the Narrative of Persecution Within Refugee Law

David John Frank, Making Sense of LGBT Asylum Claim: Change and Variation in Institutional Contexts

Jenni Millbank, The Right of Lesbians and Gay Men to Live Freely, Openly, and on Equal Terms Is Not Bad Law: A Reply to Hathaway and Pobjoy

Deborah Anker and Sabi Ardalan, Escalating Persecution of Gays and Refugee Protection: Comment on Queer Cases Make Bad Law

Guglielmo Verdirame, A Friendly Act of Socio-Cultural Contestation: Asylum and the Big Cultural Divide

KJ