Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
As powerful states have increasingly come to question the consonance of the Convention-based refugee law system with their more general migratory control objectives, a political space has evolved in which fundamental issues of the nature of international refugee protection are tenable for the first time since the immediate post-War era. While it is true that recent reform initiatives have generally been regionalized in scope and often restrictionist in tendency, the Reformulation Project is examining the possibility of re-invigorating a universal protection regime characterized by an enhanced conceptual scope aligned with the norms of international human rights law, yet tailored to take real account of the legitimate interests of receiving countries. Our goal is to promote the reconceptualization of international refugee law based on the three principles of international human rights law, respect for distinct national values, and effective international burden sharing.
Recommended Citation
Hathaway, James C. "Toward the Reformulation of International Refugee Law." Refuge 15, no. 1 (1996): 1-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21860 (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
Comments
Copyright James C. Hathaway, 1996. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits use, reproduction and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) are credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees is cited