refugee law Degree Courses

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Department: Research Centers

Programme name: Center for Migration & Refugee Studies

Degree(s) awarded:  MA and Diploma Programs in Refugee Studies

Distance learning:  None

Programme Contact: Dr. Ray Jureidini, Director

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Phone: + 202 2797 6760

“The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies boasts a dynamic and multi-faceted research program focused on three broad areas of interest:  Forced Migrants and Refugees in urban centers of the ‘South’, Nationality and Refugee Law and Policy in the Arab Middle East, and Health and Reproductive Health and Urban Refugees. CMRS offers an MA in Migration and Refugee Studies (MRS) in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, forming together the only multidisciplinary program in the world that combines both migration and refugee studies with a focus on the Middle East and Africa. Established in 2000 as a program of education, research and outreach on refugee issues, it was developed in 2008 into a regional center that encompasses all forms of international mobility, whether voluntary or forced, economic or political, individual or collective, temporary or permanent.  The Center also offers annual summer short courses.”

Department: Clinical Legal Education Programs

Programme name: Refugee Rights Clinic

Degree(s) awarded:  -

Distance learning:  -

Programme Contact:  Dr. Neta Ziv, Director

Email: zneta[at]post.tau.ac.il

Phone: + 972 3 6408361

Fax: + 972 3 6407422

“In 2002, a yearlong project at Tel Aviv University Public Interest Law Resource Center developed the country’s first legal aid advocacy program devoted solely to refugees. In October 2003, this pilot project became the Refugee Rights Clinic, with 20 law students enrolled each year. The Clinic has become the leading source of independent information about Israel’s asylum policies, and was quoted extensively in the 2005 US State Department report on human rights practices.”

Department: Law Clinic

Programme name: Refugee Rights Project

Degree(s) awarded:  -

Distance learning: -

Programme Contact: Fatima Kahn, Director

Email: uctlawclinic[at]uct.ac.za

Phone: +021 650 3775

Fax: +021 650 5665

“In response to the growing need of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa, the clinic created a Refugee Rights Project to offer crucial legal and advocacy services for this target group.  The Refugee Rights Project at the UCT Law Clinic has been funded since 1998 by UCT and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It is run as a legal implementing partner of the UNCHR and it assists the Western Cape’s refugees and asylum seekers secure their repatriation, resettlement and local integration. The Refugee Rights strives to combine the elements of teaching, practice and research for the benefit of the human rights situation of refugees in South Africa.”

Department: Faculty of Law

Programme name: Center for the Study of Forced Migration

Degree(s) awarded: -

Distance learning: -

Programme Contact:  Dr. Khoti Kamanga, Coordinator, Faculty of Law

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Phone: + 255 22 2410593/2410197

Fax: + 255 22 2410441

“The Center for the Study of Forced Migration (CSFM) is situated at the Faculty of Law, University of Dar Es Salaam and was established in April 1995. The Centre is multidisciplinary in character and draws members from different Faculties and Institutes of the University of Dar Es Salaam. It brings together experts from diverse fields including lawyers, historians, geographers, economists, sociologists and demographers.  SFM is increasingly becoming an attractive dissemination for researchers with an interest in refugee related matters. CSFM is currently offering short-term courses offered once per year.”

Department: Faculty of Law

Programme name: Refugee Law Project

Degree(s) awarded:  -

Distance learning: -

Programme Contact:  Dr. Chris Dolan, Project Director

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Phone: +256(0) 414 348 062

Fax: +256(0) 414 346 491

“The Refugee Law Project (RLP) seeks to ensure fundamental human rights for all asylum seekers, refugees, and internally displaced persons within Uganda. We envision a country that treats all people within its borders with the same standards of respect and social justice. We work to see that all people living in Uganda, as specified under national and international law, are treated with the fairness and consideration due fellow human beings. The Education and Training Department aims at inculcating knowledge and skills in human rights and refugee law in those involved in the protection of forced migrants so that they are humanely treated. To date, we have trained over 3,000 officials, service providers and other stakeholders in areas of human rights, refugee law and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.”

Department: Post Graduate Laws programme

Programme name: International Refugee Law

Degree(s) awarded: Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Distance learning: Yes

Programme Contact: The Information Centre – University of London

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Phone: +44 (0)20 7862 8360 / 61 / 62

Fax: +44 (0)20 7862 8358

“The University of London is one of the world’s leading academic institutions, internationally recognised as a centre of excellence. We offer a wide range of undergraduate (BSc, LLB) and postgraduate (MA, MSc, LLM, MBA, MRes) courses as well as diplomas, certificates and shorter courses. You can study for our qualifications anywhere in the world.  Many of our programmes are supported by over 200 independent teaching institutions currently found in over 45 countries worldwide. We also have a network of examination centres in over 140 countries."

Department: Clinics, Centers & Programs

Programme name: Program in Refugee and Asylum Law

Degree(s) awarded: -

Distance learning: -

Programme Contact: Penelope Mathew, Director

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Phone: +1 734 763 5954

“The University of Michigan is home to the world’s most comprehensive program for the study of international and comparative refugee law. The Program in Refugee and Asylum Law brings together students, visiting scholars, and faculty with a commitment to reconciling international legal principles to the practical challenges posed by involuntary migration in all parts of the world. “The heart of the Program is a formal academic program, allowing in-depth study of international refugee law doctrine, its application in comparative jurisprudence, and direct engagement with the process of international refugee law reform.”