Professor James Hathaway was appointed Dean and William Hearn Chair of Law at the Law School in 2008. He is also Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme, and President of the Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law. Prior to joining the Melbourne Law School, Hathaway was the James E and Sarah A Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan Law School (USA). Prior to that, he served as Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto). Professor Hathaway is a leading authority on international refugee law, whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He regularly provides training on refugee law to academic, non governmental, and official audiences around the world.
Professor Hathaway’s publications include more than sixty journal articles, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, 1991), an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997) and, most recently, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005) - the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention, all linked to key international human rights norms and applied to the world's most difficult protection challenges.
He is of counsel to both the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and Asylum Access, a non-profit organization committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South. Professor Hathaway also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Refugee Studies and of the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports and directs the Refugee Caselaw Site (www.refugeecaselaw.org), a website that collects, indexes, and publishes leading judgments on refugee law.
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