Prof. Meili Presents Research on the Constitutional Right to Asylum at the University of Newcastle

Professor Steve Meili discussed his research on the constitutionalization of the right to asylum at a seminar sponsored by the Newcastle Law School in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Meili argued that a more robust use of the constitutional right to asylum may be particularly appropriate at a time of increasing nationalism and anti-globalization. An increasing number of countries have included a right to asylum in their national constitutions over the past two decades (notably in Latin America and other parts of the Global South), and in many such cases that constitutional right provides broader protection to asylum-seekers than the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Meili’s research on this topic was recently published in the Fordham International Law Journal.