International Human Rights Law and Political Asylum in Comparative Perspective

比较视角下的国际人权法与政治庇护

• 批准号: 1228602
• 负责人: Stephen Meili
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1228602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Human; Rights; Law; Political

The proposed project will develop an empirically-tested theory about when international human rights law is referenced in asylum cases. It will analyze asylum decisions by courts and administrative tribunals since 1990 in the United Kingdom according to the way that judges rely on or otherwise reference human rights treaties. Decisions will be coded in order to determine whether the impact of such treaties depends on factors such as incorporation of the treaty into domestic law, the country of origin of the asylum applicant, and the gender of the applicant and judge. The project also features semi-structured interviews with U.K. refugee lawyers to determine the circumstances under which they believe invoking human rights treaties helps or hurts their clients. The proposed project advances three interrelated branches of socio-legal scholarship: the efficacy of international human rights treaties; the human rights approach to refugee law, and cause lawyering. It takes a nuanced approach toward the efficacy debate, positing that rather than an all or nothing matter, the impact of human rights treaties depends on several factors, including those identified above. Rather than assuming that such treaties invariably benefit refugees, the project asserts that in some cases they may do more harm than good. And the project examines how cause lawyers representing non-citizens utilize human rights law. The project impacts legal advocacy, legal training, and legal scholarship. First, it will identify ways that lawyers representing asylum-seekers might use international human rights law to more effectively advocate for their clients. Second, it will educate future lawyers by incorporating law students into a team-based project that includes training in empirical methods and complex case analysis. And third, it will contribute to the scholarly debate over principled and strategic uses of international law, focusing on asylum and human rights.

拟议项目将针对庇护案件中何时引用国际人权法制定一个经过实证检验的理论。它将根据法官依赖或以其他方式参考人权条约的方式，分析自 1990 年以来英国法院和行政法庭的庇护决定。决定将被编码，以确定此类条约的影响是否取决于将条约纳入国内法、庇护申请人的原籍国以及申请人和法官的性别等因素。该项目还对英国难民律师进行半结构化访谈，以确定他们认为在什么情况下援引人权条约会帮助或伤害他们的客户。拟议的项目推进了社会法律学术的三个相互关联的分支：国际人权条约的效力；难民法的人权方针，并引起律师业务。 它对效力辩论采取了细致入微的态度，认为人权条约的影响取决于几个因素，包括上述因素，而不是全有或全无的问题。 该项目并没有假设此类条约总是对难民有利，而是声称在某些情况下它们可能弊大于利。 该项目还研究了代表非公民的律师如何利用人权法。 该项目影响法律宣传、法律培训和法律学术。首先，它将确定代表寻求庇护者的律师可以利用国际人权法更有效地为其客户辩护的方式。其次，它将通过将法学院学生纳入基于团队的项目来教育未来的律师，其中包括实证方法和复杂案例分析的培训。第三，它将促进关于国际法原则性和战略性运用的学术辩论，重点关注庇护和人权。