Prof. Meili Presents Research on U.K. Asylum Law and Practice at Boston College Symposium

Professor Steve Meili presented his research on refugee lawyers in the United Kingdom at a symposium entitled "Filling Power Vacuums in the New Global Legal Order" at Boston College Law School. Meili's symposium paper analyzed the way that lawyers representing asylum-seekers are expanding the boundaries of U.K. domestic law by pushing for expanded human rights-based protections for their clients. The paper is part of Meili's larger research project on the impact of international human rights treaties on asylum jurisprudence and practice in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. He is currently on sabbatical at Oxford University conducting research on the U.K. phase of that project.