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Professor Stephen Meili has published a legal analysis of President Trump’s recent Executive Order on Refugees, most familiarly known as the travel ban. The Order created a 120-day moratorium on the U.S.…

Prof. Meili was interviewed by WCCO Radio regarding the Robina Foundation's gift of $25 million to the Law School's newly named James H. Binger Center for New Americans. The Center provides legal assistance to…

Professor Steve Meili was interviewed on KSTP-TV regarding the 9th Circuitt Court of Appeals oral argument on the temporary stay of President Trump's executive order on immigration. Prof. Meili noted …

Professor Steve Meili was quoted in the St. Paul Pioneer Press concerning President Trump's draft executive order that would indefinitely prevent Syrian refugees from entering the United States…

Professor Stephen Meili recently presented his research on the constitutionalization of human rights in Ecuador to the annual conferences of the Law and Society Association in New Orleans and the Latin…

Professor Stephen Meili was quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune in connection with an asylum application filed by the cousin of one of 43 Mexican college students who disappeared in 2014 while on…

Professor Stephen Meili presented his research on the detention of asylum-seekers in the U.S. and the U.K. at the University of Warwick, England. Meili's research, which will be featured in an upcoming article…

Professor Stephen Meili presented his research on Colombian refugees seeking asylum in Ecuador at the Latin American Studies Association annual Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He had also presented this research…

Professor Stephen Meili presented his research on the impact of human rights treaties on the detention of asylum-seekers in the U.S. and the U.K. at Fordham Law School's Leitner Center for International Law…

Professor Stephen Meili delivered lectures on two of his current research projects at the University of Essex and the University of Reading. At Essex's Human Rights Centre he discussed his empirical study of the…
Professor Stephen Meili presented a series of lectures and clinical training exercises to human rights professors and students at four law schools in Medellin, Colombia during the week of August 25. The lectures…
Professor Stephen Meili presented his research on the impact of human rights treaties on asylum jurisprudence and practice in Canada at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Refugee and Forced Migration…