Human Rights and Refugee Law Hathaway Hardback Edward Elgar 9781781009390

Human Rights and Refugee LawAuthor(s): James C. Hathaway\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781781009390, 978-1781009390\nSynopsis\nRefugee law is both conceived as a response to the absence of human rights, and is one of the most powerful means by which human rights are restored.\n\nThis comprehensive collection of leading scholarship examines the strengths of, and challenges faced by, international refugee law over its nearly century-long existence. Following an original introduction by Professor Hathaway, Volume I addresses the questions of the political and ethical reasons that states have agreed to implement refugee protection in international law; the conceptual boundaries of refugee status; and the systems and structures by which refugee rights are implemented. Volume II takes up the nature of contemporary challenges to the refugee law regime, and examines leading proposals to revitalize an.