Human Rights and the Revision of Refugee Law.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The broad texture of international refugee law -- Hypothesis and original contributions -- Outlining and qualifying the scope -- PART I: The suggestion -- 1. The Law of Refugee Status's doctrinal changes -- Alienage -- Well-founded fear -- History and persecution -- 2. The art of the deal -- Grand designs: a careful compromise -- Reformist ambitions -- PART II: The academic reception -- 3. Mainstream seduction -- Stages of acceptance -- Commonalities -- Disagreements -- Scholarly trends -- 4. A tenuous legal basis -- Conventional deployments of the VCLT -- Between founding tenets and postmodern anxieties -- 5. Human rights law as monolithic -- Schools of thought within human rights -- Locating IRL within this schema -- 6. A critical evaluation of the human rights paradigm -- Personal persecution -- State protection -- Surrogacy -- PART III: The human rights paradigm in practice -- 7. Towards convergence? The establishment of a jus commune -- Case law and transnational judicial conversations -- Extra-legal initiatives -- EUQD -- Further study -- 8. The divergent practices of human rights adjudication -- Personal persecution -- The failure of state protection and non-state actors -- The nexus clauses and membership of a particular social group -- Conclusion -- Epistemology -- Theory -- Judicial practice -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law. Using international refugee law's analytical turn to human rights as its object of inquiry, it represents a critical intervention into the revisionism that has led to conceptual fragmentation and restrictive practices.

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