Prof. Meili Presents Research at Refugee Conference in Montreal

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 Studies in Montreal. Meili's empirical study, funded by a grant from the Robina Foundation, analyzed nearly 3,000 Canadian immigration tribunal and federal court decisions since 1990, as well as interviews with refugee lawyers, to determine the circumstances under which human rights treaties are most likely to assist asylum-seekers obtain relief. Among his other findings, Meili reported that treaties are most likely to help asylum-seekers when the treaty has been incorporated into domestic law and when the applicant is a woman.