Towards a Refugee Oriented Right of Asylum

Laura Westra is Professor Emerita at Windsor University, Canada, where she teaches international environmental law. She also teaches at the University of Milano (Bicocca) and the University of Trento (Italy). She is the author of over 85 articles and 31 books on environmental and human rights law, ethics and global justice. Satvinder Singh Juss Ph.D FRSA, is professor of law at King’s College London, UK, a Barrister-at-Law of Gray’s Inn, London, UK, and a former Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, USA. He specialises in human rights, public law, comparative constitutional law and international refugee law. He has published widely on the subjects of migration and human rights law. Professor Juss is fluent in Urdu and Swahili. Tullio Scovazzi is professor of international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He occasionally is the legal expert of Italy in negotiations and meetings relating to international law of the sea, cultural properties, and human rights.

Introduction to the Question of Asylum Seekers, LauraWestra, SatvinderJuss, TullioScovazzi; Part I Proximate and Distant Causality Affecting Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons; Chapter 1 The Limitations of the Present International Instruments for the Protection of Refugees, LauraWestra; Chapter 2 Climate Change Refugees, Donald A.Brown; Chapter 3 Escape from Development and the Plunder of Resources, LauraWestra; Chapter 4 Exodus after Conflict, SatvinderJuss; Part II Present Challenges, Legal Regimes and Jurisprudence; Chapter 5 After the Flight, LauraWestra; Chapter 6 The Particular Problems of Migrants and Asylum Seekers Arriving by Sea, TullioScovazzi; Part III The Case for the Support of Asylum Seekers; Chapter 7 The Case for Asylum Seekers, LauraWestra; Chapter 101 Epilogue, SatvinderJuss;