A guest lecture exploring the relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention will be given by Alan Deve, a Protection Associate at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), on Tuesday 18 October.
The lecture, entitled The 1951 Refugee Convention 65 years on – still relevant to today’s crisis?, has been organised by Kent’s Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) at Kent Law School and is open to all.
Alan has worked for the UNHCR for the last 10 years focusing on the organisation’s supervisory functions exercised through comments to policy and legislative changes and application in the UK. He is a lawyer by training and was admitted to the Zimbabwe Bar in 1994. Over the years he has worked in various human rights and humanitarian capacities in Zimbabwe, the UK and Uganda. He has a particular interest in international refugee protection and in UK asylum and immigration law. His talk will take place in KLT5 at 6pm.
CeCIL is an innovative research centre which aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law, that touch upon global legal problems. Throughout the academic year, CeCIL invites scholars and practitioners to give a variety of talks to help expose students to a wide spectrum of ideas and opinions and to complement their critical thinking about international law. Aimed primarily at LLM and PhD students of international law, the guest lectures are also open to the wider scholarly community.