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Professor of International Refugee Law

Vice Dean education, Director Graduate School of Law and College of Law of the Amsterdam Law School

Professor of Public International Law at the Pakistan College of Law, Lahore, Pakistan

Publications

BOOKS

-           UNHCR and Voluntary Repatriation of Refugees;A Legal Analysis , 1997, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague;

-           UNHCR's Worldwide Presence in the Field;   A Legal Analysis of UNHCR's Cooperation Agreements, (April) 2006, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen;

-           UNHCR's Parallel Universe. Marking the Contours of a Problem , Vossius Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2010 (inaugural lecture series, no. 363).

EDITED PUBLICATIONS  

-           Editor of a report on 'Restrictive Measures in Europe', written by the Working Group on Refugee Law of the Netherlands Branch of the International Law Association, April 1992 (with E.W. Vierdag);

-           Peoples and Minorities in International Law , Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1993 (with C.M. Brölmann and R. Lefeber).

  ARTICLES  

-           "De UNPO inbijzondere vergadering bijeen" [Special Meeting of the Unrepresented Peoples' Organization], 4 VN Forum 1991, 8-10;

-           "The Concept of 'Generations' of Human Rights and the Right to Benefit from the Common Heritage of Mankind with Reference to Extraterrestial Realms", 25 Verfassung und Recht in Ubersee 1992, 161-198;

-           "Voluntary Repatriation: An Analysis of the Refugee's Right to Return to his own Country", 44 Austrian Journal of Public and International Law 1992, 137-176;

-           Contribution on refugee law to the National Advisory Board on Development Aid, published in the Advice of the Board on Refugees, Displaced Persons and Development Aid ( Advies Vluchtelingen, ontheemden en ontwikkelingssamenwerking ) (no. 102), August 1993;

-           "Staten en Inheemse Volken" [States and indigenous peoples], 6 VN Forum 1993, 105-113 (with C.M. Brölmann);

-           "Indigenous Peoples", in C.M. Brölmann, R. Lefeber, M.Y.A. Zieck (eds.), Peoples and Minorities in International Law , Dordrecht, 1993, 187-220 (with C.M. Brölmann);

-           "Zikomo Malawi"[On the voluntary repatriation of Mozambican refugees from Malawi], 7 VN Forum 1994, 9-12;

-           "Some Remarks on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples", 8 Leiden Journal of International Law 1995, 105-113 (with C.M. Brölmann);

-           "UNHCR's 'Special Agreements'", in J. Klabbers, R. Lefeber (eds.), Essays on the Law of Treaties. Essays in Honour of Bert Vierdag , 1998, 171-187;

-           "The Panamanian Assumption of Full Control of the Administration of and Operation of the Panama Canal", 13 Leiden Journal of International Law 2000, 695-707;

-           "Codification of the Law on Diplomatic Protection: the First Eight Draft Articles", 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 2001, 209-232;

-           "Veiligheidsraad-resolutie 1441 en de vraag naar de rechtmatigheid van unilateraal militair geweld tegen Irak" [UN Security Council resolution 1441 and the question of the legality of unilateral military force against Iraq], Nederlands Juristen Blad 2002, No. 45-46, 2240-2241 (with J. van Wielink);

-           "Regeren is vooruitzien: Turkse aanspraken op Noord Irak in het licht van een mogelijke oorlog tegen Irak" [Turkish claims to Northern Iraq against thepossibility of war against Iraq], Nederlands Juristen Blad 2003, No. 5, 232-233 (with J. van Wielink);

-           "Voluntary Repatriation: Paradigm, Pitfalls, Progress", 23 Refugee Survey Quarterly 2004, 33-54; [This article has been selected by Oxford University Press, celebrating its centenary as a publisher of learned journals, to form part of a collection of 100 seminal papers taken from 180 journals (2006), see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/centenary#Refugee%20Survey%20Quarterly Oxford Journals | News | A century of publishing for Oxford ...

-             "Vanishing Points of the Refugee Law Regime" [response to James Hathaway], 20 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 2005, 217-248 [also included in 26 Immigration and Nationality Law Review (University of Cincinnati College of Law) 2006];

-           "Materieelrechtelijke consequenties van UNHCR's institutionele expansie" [substantive legal consequences of UNHCR's institutional expansion], 81 Nederlands Juristen Blad 2006, No. 37, 2121-2125;

-           "Diplomatiek en Consulair Recht" [Diplomatic and Consular Law], in N. Horbach, R. Lefeber, O. Ribbelink (eds.), Hoofdstuk9 in Handboek Internationaal Recht [Ch. 9 in Textbook Public International Law], Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2007, 275-308;

-           "In the Aftermath of Voluntary Repatriation: the Fate of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan", 3 Pakistan Law Review 2007, 1-51;

-           "Toepassing relativiteitsvereiste strandt op eisen vluchtelingenverdrag" [On the meaning of 'admission as refugee' in the light of the object and purpose of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in response to a judgment of the Netherlands Supreme Court], 83 Nederlands Juristenblad 2008, No. 21, 1283-1289;

-           "The Legal Status of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, A Story of Eight Agreements and Two Suppressed Premises", 20 International Journal of Refugee Law 2008, 253-273;

-           "Doomed to Fail from the Outset? UNHCR's 'Convention Plus Initiative' Revisited", 21 International Journal of Refugee Law 2009, 387-420;

-           "UNHCR's toezicht op de toepassing van het Vluchtelingenverdrag" [UNHCR's supervision of the application of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees], Asiel& Migrantenrecht 2010, no. 2, 59-67;

-           "Accession of Pakistan to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees: 'Signing on Could Make All the Difference'", 5 Pakistan Law Review 2010, 1-54.

BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS  

-           Review of Jean-Marie Henckaerts, Mass Expulsion in Modern International Law and Practice (1995) in: 5 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 1997/8, 205-208;

-           Review of Daniel Warner (ed.), Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. The Quest for Universality (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 1997) in: 5 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 1997/98, 433-439;

-           Review of James C. Hathaway (ed.), Reconceiving International Refugee Law (1997), in: 5 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 1997/8, 433-439;

-           Review of Maurice Bertrand, The United Nations; Past, Present and Future (1997), in: 4 VN Forum 1998, 29-31;

-           Review ofNassrine Azimi (ed.), The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC); Debriefing and Lessons (1995) and

-           Nassrine Azimi (ed.), The Role and Functions of Civilian Police in United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations; Debriefing and Lessons (1996) and

-           Nassrine Azimi (ed.) Humanitarian Action and Peace-Keeping Operations; Debriefing and Lessons (1997) in: 6 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 1999, 509-521;

-           Review of Brigitte Stern (ed.), Dissolution, Continuation and Succession in Eastern Europe (1998) in: 7 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 2000, 59-63;

-           Review of Ivor.C. Jackson, The Refugee Concept in Group Situations (1999) in: 3 Journal of the History of International Law 2001, 143-150;

-           Review of John Torpey, The Invention of the Passport; Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (2000), in 4 Journal of the History of International Law 2002, 387-391;

-           Review of James C. Hathaway, The Rights of Refugees Under International Law , Cambridge, 2005, CambridgeUniversity Press, in13 International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 2006, 413-426.

CASE NOTES

 

-           "Affaire D. et Autres c. Turquie of de rol van UNHCR in landen van toevlucht" [D and others v . Turkey or the role of UNHCR in countries of asylum], 31 Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten / NJCM-Bulletin 2006, 1160-1170;

-           Case Report Judgment of the Netherlands Supreme Court of 13 April 2007, Oxford Reports on International Law - ILDC 837 (NL 2007), 27 February 2009;

-           "Niet-Europese vluchtelingen in Turkije, het land van ooit", annotatie van de zaak Abdolkhani and Karimnia v. Turkey , uitspraak van het Europese Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens van 22 september 2009 [Non-European Refugees in Turkey, the ever land", case-note pertaining to Abdolkhani and Karimnia v. Turkey, Judgement of the European Court of Human Rights of 22 September 2009], 35 Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten /   NJCM-Bulletin 2010, 184-204.

 

FORTHCOMING  

-        "Commentary on Article 35 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Article II of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees", in A. Zimmermann (ed.), Commentary on the 1951 Convention relating on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol , Oxford University Press, 2011;

-        "Commentary on Article 36 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Article III of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees", in A. Zimmermann (ed.), Commentary on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol , Oxford University Press, 2011;

-        "UNHCR and Turkey, and Beyond, Of Parallel Tracks and Symptomatic Cracks", International Journal of Refugee Law, 2010;

-        "` Quota refugees', the Dutch Contribution to Global Burden-Sharing by Means of Resettlement of Refugees", will be published in the International Journal of Legal Information 2011.

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