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About the Participants

Presenters: Judges or Academics

Justice Geoffrey Care

Chair, Eurosylum's Advisory Panel, Founder and first President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ); former Chairman of the United Kingdom’s Immigration Appeal Tribunal

Justice Esme Jynet Chombo High Court of Malawi
Justice Prof. Harald Dörig Supreme Administrative Court, Germany
Prof. Geoff Gilbert Department of Law, University of Essex
Prof. Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Professor of International Refugee Law in the University of Oxford
Prof. Elspeth Guild Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Kingsley Napley, London, England
Prof. Kate Jastram Faculty of Law, University of California at Berkeley
Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson Federal Court (Canada)
The Hon. Justice Allan Lutfy

Federal Court (Canada)

Justice A. M. North

Federal Court of Australia; President of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ)

Prof. Jane McAdam Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Justice Anne Mactavish Federal Court (Canada)
The Honourable Justice Albie Sachs Constitutional Court, Republic of South Africa
   
Other Participants (including other presenters and judicial commentary reviewers)
Juan Osuna Chairman, United States Board of Immigration Appeals, Executive Office of Immigration Review
David B. Dewitt Associate Vice-President Research (Social Sciences & Humanities) and Professor of Political Science, Centre for International & Security Studies, York University
Dean Robert Drummond Facutly of Arts, York University
Susan McGrath, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Prof. Ian Greene, Master

McLaughlin College, York University;
Director, Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) Programme, Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Public Policy and Administation, York University

Prof. Audrey Macklin Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Prof. Sharryn J. Aiken Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
Osamu Arakaki, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Law, Shigakukan University, Japan
Joseph Rikhof Senior Counsel, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Ministry of Justice, Government of Canada
Susan Davis Executive Vice-President, Canadian Council for Israel & Jewish
Advocacy (CIJA)
Jessie Thomson Senior Advisor/Conseillère principale Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group/Affaires humanitaires et des interventions lors des catastrophes (IRH-MHA), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada/Affaires étrangeres et Commerce international
Canada
Prof. Robert Latham Director, Centre for International and Security Studies, York University
Prof. James C. Simeon Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies & Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Prof. Nergis Canefe Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and a Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Scholar at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prof. Obiora Okafor Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Prof. Sasha Baglay Assistant Professor, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Adjunct Faculty, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Sarah Whitaker Sr. Research Officer, Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, York University
Irene Connie Tumwebaze Summer Course Studies’ Coordinator, Centre for Refugee Studies, MA Student, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Karen Vanderwillik MA Candidate in Political Science, Department of Political Science, York University
Hicham Safieddine MA (Economics), MA Candidate in Political Science, Department of Political Science, York University
Helen Wong MPPAL Programme, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University
Neha Chugh Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Grace Wang Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Tara Raissi Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
David Adanja Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Robert Denault Learning Technology Support Specialist, Office of Computing Technology & e-Learning Services, York University
Elizabeth Monier-Williams Research Communications Officer, Office of the Vice-President of Research Innovation, York University