PrF:Mx920pZk International Refugee Law

Mx920pZk International Refugee Law

Faculty of Law
Autumn 1999

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. JUDr. Dalibor Jílek, CSc. (lecturer)

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Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Lectures: 1. Determining Refugee Law within the context of International Law, forms of International Refugee Law, treaty domination, character of international obligations. 2. Development of the legal definition of a refugee until 1950 3. Definition of a refugee in accordance with Article 1 of 1951 Geneva Convention. Inclusion, cessation and exclusion. 4. International protection of refugees: primary protection and the principle of non-refoulement. 5. Secondary international protection of refugees: customary law on human rights, coersion measures, prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment. 6. European acquis, readmission agreements, the concept of safe countries. Literature used: Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status kolektiv: Integrated Refugee Law Course Budíková, Chovanec: Refugee Law Dictionary

Literature

GOODWIN-GILL, Guy S. The refugee in international law. 2. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, xl, 584 s. ISBN 0-19-826019-9. info
Who is a refugee? : a comparative case law study. Edited by Jean-Yves Carlier. The Hague: Kluwer law international, 1997, xxxi, 794. ISBN 90-411-0348-12. info
HATHAWAY, James C. The law of refugee status. Toronto: Butterworths, 1996, xxxiii, 25. ISBN 0-409-91479-7. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

The students are expected to take an oral examination and discuss the problems based on the Handbook and a particular case.