European and Regional Legal Responses
to the Refugee "Crisis" in Global Context
Monday, 19 June 2017
Beit Maiersdorf, Mount Scopus Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:15-10:30
Greetings
Dr. Michael Borchard, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Israel
Prof. Tomer Broude, Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and Director of the
"Human Rights under Pressure" International Doctoral Research Program, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
10:30-11:30
Opening Address
Speaker:
Prof. Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute
"Refugee Protection and Burden-sharing in the European Union"
Chair:
Ms. Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12:00-13:30
Refugees and Mass Displacement on the Ground - Current Realities in Law and Practice
Speakers:
Mr. Amit Sen, UNHCR Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa, Amman
"Forced Migration and Statelessness: A Global Overview"
Dr. Dmitris Skleparis, University of Glasgow
"Greece’s Response to the ‘European Refugee Crisis’: Two Years Later"
Dr. Lami Bertan Tokuzlu, Istanbul Bilgi University
"Turkey’s Syrian Refugee Crisis: The Impact of the Syrian Refugee Influx on the Turkish Asylum Law
and Institutions"
Chair:
Dr. Tal Dingott-Alkopher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
14:45-16:15
Western Legal and Political Perspectives
Speakers:
Ms. Shani Bar-Tuvia, PhD Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“When Policies Travel but Checks and Balances Don’t: The Diffusion of Restrictive
Refugee Policies among Western Countries”
Prof. Rosemary Byrne, Trinity College Dublin
"The Common European Asylum System in Crisis: A Case Study in the Perversity of Incentives in
Refugee Protection Law"
Prof. Ruvi Ziegler, University of Reading
"Beneficiaries of International Protection in the European Union and the (Absent)
European Protection Space"
Chair:
Ms. Lior Birger, PhD Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16:30-17:45
The Bearers of Laws and Policies: A Conversation with an Asylum Seeker and an Asylum
Advocate in Israel
Participants:
Mr. Habtom Mehari, PhD Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chair:
Adv. Anat Ben-Dor, Refugee Rights Clinic, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Tomer Broude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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