Prof. Meili Delivers Paper at Refugee Resettlement Conference in New Zealand

Professor Stephen Meili delivered a paper on U.S. refugee resettlement policy at a conference sponsored by the University of Auckland's New Zealand Centre on Human Rights. The theme of the conference was the extent to which the resettlement policies of five countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) comport with each country's obligations under international human rights law. Meili's presentation covered the U.S. case and argued that while U.S. policy exceeds its treaty obligations in some areas, it falls short of it in others. Meili's research for the conference compliments his current research on the impact of human rights treaties on asylum jurisprudence and practice in the same five countries. His research in that area has been sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Robina Foundation.