The Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course

Dr. Liliana Lyra Jubilut holds a PhD and a Master’s in International Law from Universidade de São Paulo and a LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University the School of Law. She has a degree in Law from Universidade de São Paulo. She is a Professor of the Post-graduate Program in Law at Universidade Católica de Santos where she coordinates the research group Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidades and is part of the coordination of the UNHCR Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair. She was Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative. She is a Member of IOM Migration Research Leaders’ Syndicate. She has been working with refugee issues since 1999.

Shahrzad Mojab, scholar, teacher, and activist, is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women’s learning and education; gender, state, migration and diaspora; Marxist feminism and anti-racism pedagogy. She is professor of Adult Education and Community Development and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the Director of Equity Studies and the former Director of the Women and Gender Institute, University... of Toronto. She is the recipient of the Royal Society of Canada Award in Gender Studies in 2010. A unique feature of Shahrzad’s work is making knowledge accessible to public through the use of arts such as story-telling, dance, drama, painting and film. She has been the guest editor of the special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Journal and International Journal of Lifelong Education. Her most recent Social Science and Humanities Research Council research projects are Youth in Transition: War, Migration, and ‘Regenerative Possibilities’ and The Pedagogy and Policy of Refugee Youth Resettlement. The Ontario Arts Council has funded her project with Roshanak Jaberi and Doris Rajan, No Woman’s Land, which is a dance project to capture the experience of refugee women of sexual violence.

Jean-Nicolas Beuze worked for more than 20 years with the United Nations in the areas of Human Rights (OHCHR), Peacekeeping (DPKO) and UNICEF at Headquarters and in the field (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Afghanistan and the Middle-East and North Africa region) before joining UNHCR in Lebanon as Deputy Representative for Protection and Inter-Agency Coordination. Prior to joining UNHCR, he was the UNICEF Child Protection Advisor for the MENA region (2010-13)... working on emergency responses in Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and strengthening public child protection and education systems in the region. He was previously appointed as the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Unit of UN Peace-Keeping/DPKO mission in Afghanistan/UNAMA (2008-10) focusing on women’s rights, elections, poverty and the protection of civilians. See more

A former litigator, Hilary Evans Cameron represented refugee claimants for a decade, and now holds a doctorate in refugee law from the University of Toronto. She is the SSHRC’s 2017 Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research and the author of a book about the law of fact-finding in refugee status decision-making (Refugee Law’s Fact-finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge 2018). Her research, which largely focuses on how refugee status adjudicat...ors make credibility assessments, has been influential internationally and was recently included in a leading anthology of the finest scholarship available in refugee law from the 1930s to the present (Hathaway 2014). Dr. Evans Cameron is a lecturer at Trinity College in the Ethics, Society and Law program and is a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. See more

One of our many exciting speakers for the 2019 course! More to come... Amar Bhatia joined Osgoode’s full-time faculty on July 1, 2014 after serving as a Catalyst Fellow and Visiting Professor at Osgoode for the 2013-14 academic year. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and postcolonial literature and received his LLB from Osgoode Hall. He articled and worked in union-side labour and employment law in Toronto before returning to graduate school. He subsequentl...y obtained an LLM from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he received the Howland Prize for most outstanding performance in the program. He also recently completed his SJD (PhD) at U of T, which was funded by a SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship. His dissertation looks at issues of status and authority of migrant workers and Indigenous peoples under Canadian immigration law, Aboriginal law, treaty relations, and Indigenous legal traditions. His publications have appeared in the German Law Journal, the Oregon Review of International Law, the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Third World Quarterly, and AlterNative. Amar teaches property law, refugee law, globalization & the law (focusing on migration), and co-directs the Aboriginal Intensive Program as well as co-edits the Journal of Law and Social Policy. He is also an alumni and a board member at Parkdale Community Legal Services. See more