Prof. Meili Receives National Science Foundation Grant

Professor Steve Meili received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue his research on the impact of international human rights treaties on asylum jurisprudence in domestic courts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The NSF grant will support the U.K. portion of the project, which Meili will conduct while on sabbatical at the University of Oxford during the 2012-13 academic year. Meili previously received a grant from the Robina Foundation for the project, which involves analyzing asylum decisions and interviewing refugee lawyers in each of the countries in order to determine the circumstances under which human rights treaties help or hurt asylum-seekers.