James C. Hathaway

James C. Hathaway is an eminent Canadian/American legal scholar in the field of international refugee law. His work is regularly cited by senior courts of common law countries. In 2008 he was appointed Dean and Hearn Chair in Law at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Professor Hathaway was Director of the University of Michigan's Program in Refugee and Asylum Law.

Professor Hathaway is also Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, and President of the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo's Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law.

Among his more important publications are a treatise on the refugee definition, The Law of Refugee Status (1991); an interdisciplinary study of refugee law reform, Reconceiving International Refugee Law (1997); and an analysis of the nature of the legal duty to protect refugees, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005).

Professor Hathaway established and directs the Refugee Caselaw Site (http://www.refugeecaselaw.org), and is an editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports. He earned his J.S.D. and LL.M. at Columbia University, and an LL.B. (Honors) at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.

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