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Remarks by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill*
Affiliation:
Professor, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.
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Professor Goodwin-Gill recalled that there are in fact at least three anniversaries this year—seventy years in the case of the Refugee Convention and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and one hundred years since Fridtjof Nansen was appointed as the League's first High Commissioner for Refugees.

Type
Look Both Ways: Future and Historical Perspectives on the Refugee Convention at 70
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 115 , 2021 , pp. 31 - 38
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This roundtable was convened at 11:15 a.m., Wednesday, March 24, 2021, by its moderator Alice Farmer of UNHCR, who introduced the panelists: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill of the University of New South Wales; Jaya Ramji-Nogales of Temple University School of Law; A. Ashley Tabaddor, Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS, former immigration judge, U.S. Department of Justice; and Volker Türk of the UN Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

This roundtable, hosted by the International Refugee Law Interest Group, was based on this set of questions:

2021 marks the 70th Anniversary of the Convention on the Status of Refugees. This event will look to the successes and failures of the Convention's framework over the past 70 years, and then ask how this informs our understanding of the future of international refugee law. The speakers will take stock of state compliance with various articles of the Convention and with norms of refugee law, asking whether the Convention is adequate to address twenty-first century crises. Speakers will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted our understanding of access to territory, and whether those shifts will continue to shape law once the pandemic has subsided. The event will look at innovations and future opportunities, including public health challenges and advancements and regional leadership on refugee rights issues.

Three panelists’ remarks are summarized below, starting with Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, followed by United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Volker Türk, and finishing with Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales.