Kent academics are invited to attend a conference on migration and refugee law taking place on our Canterbury campus during Refugee Week from Monday 20 June to Friday 24 June.

The Migration and Refugee Law Conference 2016  has been organised by the European Law Student Association (ELSA) Kent with support, and partial funding, from Kent Law School. ELSA Kent is a local group of ELSA, the world’s largest law student and young lawyer network which spans 43 countries and consists of 40,000 members.

The conference aims to contribute to the promotion of a more ‘human’ view of the refugee crisis and includes sessions with local charities Samphire and Migrant Help. Lecture topics to be delivered by staff from Kent Law School and Kent Law Clinic include: ‘From Asylum to Management: a historical genealogy of asylum and refugium’ (by Dr Thanos Zartaloudis); ‘Migration and Human Rights’ (by Sian Lewis-Anthony); and ‘Permanent residence: Permanent Problem?’ (by Graham Tegg).

The penultimate day of the conference (Friday 24 June) coincides with the expected announcement of the result of the Brexit referendum in the UK and there will be a discussion of the impact of the results led by a panel comprised of EU law experts Dr Tobias Kliem and Martin Hedemann-Robinson.

Conference sessions will be held in GLT2 from 10.-00 to 12.00 and from 13.00 to 15.00 daily, with a buffet lunch from 12.00 to 13.00. All are welcome – a full copy of the timetable is available to view at: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/law-news/files/2016/06/Timetable-of-Migration-and-Refugee-Law-Conference.pdf