(B)OrderS Workshop: Practitioners meet Academics

QM School of Law

(B)OrderS Workshop: Practitioners meet Academics - A Dialogue on Complex Protection Claims and Academic Impact in the Courtroom

Room 2.2, Second Floor, Centre for Commercial Law Studies

When: Monday, 26 June 2023, 10:00-18:00
Where: Online/Room 2.2, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, 67 - 69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB 
About the Workshop
This workshop brings together academics working on asylum and immigration in the UK context with practitioners – solicitors, barristers and judges – to discuss how practitioners use academic work, how academics and practitioners can work more closely together, and how academic work can have real impact in the courtroom.

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please indicate whether you will be attending in person. Catering for this event will be vegetarian and vegan. Those with additional dietary requirements, please email these to <a href="https://maja.grundler@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">maja.grundler@rhul.ac.uk</a> by 20 June 2023.

Programme10:00 - Registration and light breakfast (in person only)10:45 - Welcome 11:00 - Roundtable 1: Improving Protection for Asylum-Seekers with Special CharacteristicsChair: Professor Steve Peers (he/him), University of Essex &amp; Royal Holloway, University of LondonSpeakers:Catriona Jarvis (she/her), Co-Convener of the First Rights and Last Rights Projects of Methoria and former judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)Dr Nicolette Busuttil (she/her), SOAS, University of LondonTitle: Evolving Concepts of Harm in Expulsion Claims: The Role of Disability Human RightsMalak Benslama-Dabdoub (she/her), Queen Mary, University of LondonTitle: Statelessness in the Refugee Status Determination ProcedureDr Yulia Ioffe (she/her), UCL Title: Asylum Seeking Children and the Right to Family Reunification 13:00 - Lunch (in person only)

14:15 - Roundtable 2: Improving Protection for Trafficked and Smuggled PersonsChair: Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax (she/her), Full Professor of Law and Founding Director of the (B)OrderS Centre at Queen Mary University of London &amp; Ramón y Cajal Professorial Research Fellow, Universitat de BarcelonaSpeakers:Julian Bild (he/him), Solicitor, Immigration Unit Lead, Anti Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU) Miranda Butler (she/her), Barrister, Landmark ChambersCatherine Meredith (she/her), Barrister, Doughty Street ChambersDr Noemi Magugliani (they/them), University of Kent and British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)Title: Trafficked Adult Males as (Un)gendered Protection Seekers? Masculinities, Vulnerability, and VictimhoodDr Maja Grundler (she/her), Royal Holloway, University of LondonTitle: Trafficked Persons’ Asylum Claims and their Implications for Smuggled PersonsSamantha Currie (she/her), University of LiverpoolTitle: Legal Aid and Representation of Trafficked Persons16:15 - Coffee Break (in person only)17:00 - Keynote Colin Yeo (he/him), Barrister, Garden Court Chambers and Editor of the Free Movement website Title: The Ratio of Research18:00 - Drinks reception (in person only)

About (B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Mobility and MigrationFounded in 2022, the (B)Orders Centre focuses on the study of bordering, ordering and othering processes through law. It constitutes an excellence hub for intellectual collaboration and the evaluation of the role of law in the making and unmaking of borders and their impact on global (im)mobility. It connects scholars within and beyond Queen Mary Law School to harness existing inter- and multi-disciplinary research into law, borders and (im)mobility and shape future policy and research agendas in response to global challenges.

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