Conference presentations and lectures in English

(For a more complete list including presentations delivered in Hungarian please consult elõadások)

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Central European University
(Class material is usually directly distributed to the students)

Winter 2012

Lectures on Universal and European Refugee Law (Material of the 2012 Winter course delivered at the Legal Department)

1. History, order of magnitudes

2. Causes of flight- why to  protect  refugees - durable solutions - principles 2012

3-4. Well founded fear  - acts and actors of persecutionpersecution—five grounds—reights of refugees

5. Cessation—exclusion –protection by others

6. EU acquis—I.  Reception conditions, Dublin, Eurodac, ERF, Temporary protection

7. EU acquis—II. Qualifications Directive, Procedures Directive, EASO, Future

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Spring 2011

Lectures on the Common European Asylum System of the European Union (part of the 2011 Spring course delivered at IRES)

1. The institutional framework of the EU

2. The European Refugee Fund, the Temproary Protection directive, the Reception Conditions directive, the Dublin regulation(s), Eurodac

3. The Procedures directive and the Return directive

4. The Qalifications directive

5. The future of the Common European Asylum System

 

Of historic interest:

20 October 2004, HRSI evening

Asylum in Hungary, History, International (and EU) context  (Powerpoint, 293 kb.)

 

31 January 2003  "Rights of Future Generations" workshop

The Background of the  Protection of  the Interests of
Future Generations in International
Law and Hungarian Law
(Power point 57 kb)

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Advanced training course on European asylum law and practice

Knowledge-Based Harmonisation of European Asylum Practices

A project of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee co-financed by the European Commission

Budapest, 14 September 2011.

"Unfinished Symphony”   the Common European Asylum System in the Making.  (Decision Making, Acquis, Recasts) (1,5 MB)

 

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European University Institute, Florence

NICLAS Summer School lecture, delivered on 5 July 2011.

Open and closed borders. Political philosophical and ethical arguments concerning the management of migration and the protection of refugees (Power Point,  208 Kb)

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Moscow, MGIMO, Institute of European Law

(Co-organised by UNHCR, delivered at the premises of UNDP on 25 May 2011)

 

The Institutional and Legal Framework of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice  (Power point, 1,3 MB)

ERF, Temporary  protection,  Reception conditions,  Dublin regime (Power Point, 0,2 MB)

The Procedures directive and the Return directive (Power Point, 0,2 MB)

The Qualifications directive (Power Point, 0,2 MB)

The future of the European refugee regime (Power Point, 0,1 MB)

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Awareness Raising Seminar on Contemporary Humanitarian Issues: Humanitarian Action and Foreign Policy.
 
Budapest,ELTE,  10 May 2011

Permanent humanitarian emergency: refugees and others at Europe's gate   (Power Point, 950 Kb) 

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Geneva Center for Security Policy  2011

             The Movement of Third Country Nationals  in the EU: Law and Practice (Power Point lecture, 368 Kb)

Of historic interest

The Free Movement of Persons in the EU: Law and Practice (Power point lecture /pptx/ 370 Kb.),  2010

How Nations Negotiate and Why They Conclude Treaties? (Power point lecture , /pptx/ 707 Kb.) 2009                          

Schengen: law and politics A look at European metamorphoses in the field of  movement of persons, border controls and flanking measures  (Power Point 650 Kb)   18 January 2006
"Schengen”: law, administration and politics in the fields of  asylum, migration, visas and related problems
 (Power Point, 434 kb)       
20 January 2004
Freedom security and justice  in the EU Asylum, migration, visas and related problems
 (Power point, 300 kb)    6 May 2003
Schengen and the emerging  area of freedom, security and justice   (Power point, 300 kb)   6 March 2003

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UNHCR:  Border Management and Protection of Refugees Conference, Budapest 24 November 2010.

Admission to Territory and the Principle of Non-Refoulement Under International Human Rights Law. (Pptx, 463 kb)

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MGIMO  -  Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)

European Studies Institute, 1 October 2010

The Common European Asylum System—Selected Issues (Pptx, 440 Kb)

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Max Planck Insitute für ausländisches öffentiliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, 20 July 2010

Beyond or before the law:  moral, political philosophical and other arguments in favour of protecting refugees   (Power point lecture, pptx, 150 Kb)

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Université Libre de Bruxelles – Institute for European Studies
ODYSSEUS Network
Certificate  Program in European law on immigration and asylum, 2010 –2011

International Refugee Law

The presentations are divided into four units, as they were taught.  Click on the roman numbers to download the slides!

I.          Fundamental concepts - historic development before 1918;
                     
The formation of the international refugee regime and the foundations of the present system
                     
Taking stock of the order of magnitude of forced migration


II.               Causes of forced migration and reasons for protecting refugees – ethical inquiries ;  
                     
Durable solutions, „alienage”, the refugee experience;
                     
Definitions in use universally and regionally;
                     
Fundamental principles, especially non- refoulement;

 

III.             Well founded fear 
                     
Persecution – acts, actors 
                     
Five grounds of persecution 

IV.             Substantive rights of recognised refugees
                     
Termination of refugee
                     
Exclusion from protection

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Fourth Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Protection:

The Common European Asylum System Phase II

Subsidiary protection Interpretation of Art 15 of the Qualification directive, the Elgafaji and more recent cases. (Power point lecture, 630 Kb, delivered on 1 October 2009)

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Rights of Future Generations — 2008

International Conference of the Eötvös-Loránd-University, Budapest on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 28-29 November 2008

Co-organiser: Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

  The Present Value of the Interests of Future Gerenerations (Ppt, 800Kb)

 

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Brussels Summer University — 2007

"European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum" organised by the Odysseus Academic Network

4 July 2007

Enlargement of the EU and the European Immigration and Asylum Policy (Power point, large file! 1720 kb)
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Pécs, ELSA Summer School — 2006

 "International and European Law in the Courts – The Environmental Aspects"

10 July 2006

The Gabèikovo-Nagymaros Dispute. The first 17 Years  (Power point  442 kb)

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  Conference co-organized by the Center of Europeans Studies of Boğaziçi University and Middle East Technical University and the Ankara Branch Office of UNHCR Istanbul — 2006

"Harmonizing Turkish Asylum Policy and Accession to the EU: Bottlenecks, Challenges and Prospects"

 5-6 May 2006

Adapting to an ever changing  role model Reflections on experiences gained before and after the accession

 

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Hungarian Youth Atlantic Council — 2006

Moving frontiers - Common Approach to Transborder Threats in Central Europe

25 February  2006

"Tougher than the Berlin wall - moralising with law-books in hand". (Power point 193 Kb)

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International Association of Refugee Law Judges European Chapter—2005

Workshop  3 -5 November,  Budapest

Harmonize with Cacophony!  New Member States,  the EU Acquis and  the Fate of the European Tradition

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Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Dual nationality as a legal problem - conference, Budapest, 3 October 2005

Dual nationality and beyond – disputes in contemporary Hungary

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Hungarian Parliament

 Roundtable: „Forms of citizenship and the right to freedom of travel in Europe” Budapest, 28-30 July 2005