The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol: A Commentary

Neuausgabe 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-954251-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 1936 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 1870 g

Reihe: Oxford Commentaries on International Law

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted on 28 July 1951 in Geneva provides the most comprehensive codification of the rights of refugees yet attempted. Consolidating previous international instruments relating to refugees, the 1951 Convention with its 1967 Protocol marks a cornerstone in the development of international refugee law. At present, there are 144 States Parties to one or both of these instruments, expressing a worldwide consensus on the
definition of the term refugee and the fundamental rights to be granted to refugees. These facts demonstrate and underline the extraordinary significance of these instruments as the indispensable legal basis of international refugee law.

This Commentary provides for a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol on an article-by-article basis, exposing the interrelationship between the different articles and discussing the latest developments in international refugee law. In addition, several thematic contributions analyse questions of international refugee law which are of general significance, such as regional developments and the relationship between refugee law and the law of the
sea.

Zielgruppe

Practitioners involved in refugee cases; scholars and students of international refugee law and international human rights law; policy-makers and legal officers in government offices and NGOs dealing with refugee issues

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zimmermann, Andreas

Dörschner, Jonas

Machts, Felix

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: (Feller): Preface
2: Table of Contents
TABLES
3: Abbreviations
4: List of Authors
5: Bibliography
6: Travaux Préparatoires
7: Table of International Cases
8: Table of Regional Cases
9: Table of Domestic Cases
10: Table of Treaties and Instruments
GENERAL11: (Skran): Historical Development
12: (Einarsen): Drafting History
13: (McAdam): Interpretation
14: (Klug): Regional Developments Europe
15: (Blay): Regional Developments Asia
16: van Garderen/Ebenstein): Regional Developments Africa
17: (Piovesan/Jubilut): Regional Developments Americas
18: (Alleweldt): Preamble 1951 Convention
19: (Alleweldt): Preamble 1967 Protocol
Chapter I: General Provisions
20: (Schmahl): Art. 1 A para. 1
21: (Zimmermann/Mahler): Art. 1 A para. 2
22: (Schmahl): Art. 1 B
23: (Kneebone/O'Sullivan): Art. 1 C
24: (Qafisheh/Azarova): Art. 1 D
25: (Marx): Art. 1 E
26: (Zimmermann/Wennholz): Art. 1 F
27: (Schmahl): Art. I
28: (Lambert): Art. 2
29: (Marx/Staff): Art. 3
30: (Walter): Art. 4
31: (Skordas): Art. 5
32: (Marx/Machts): Art. 6
33: (Skordas): Art. 7
34: (Davy): Art. 8
35: (Davy): Art. 9
36: (Schmahl): Art. 10
37: (Bank): Introduction to Art. 11
38: (Bank): Art. 11
Chapter II: Juridical Status
39: (Metzger): Art. 12
40: (Leckie/Simperingham): Art. 13
41: (Metzger): Art. 14
42: (Teichmann): Art. 15
43: (Elberling): Art. 16
Chapter III: Gainful Employment
44: (Edwards): Art. 17
45: (Edwards): Art. 18
46: (Edwards): Art. 19
Chapter IV: Welfare
47: (Lester): Art. 20
48: (Leckie/Simperingham): Art. 21
49: (Zimmermann/Dörschner): Art. 22
50: (Lester): Art. 23
51: (Lester): Art. 24
Chapter V: Administrative Measures
52: (Hofmann/Löhr): Introduction to Chapter V
53: (Lester): Art. 25
54: (Marx): Art. 26
55: (Vedsted-Hansen): Art. 27
56: (Vedsted-Hansen): Art. 28/Schedule
57: (Nagy): Art. 29
58: (Nagy): Art. 30
59: (Noll): Art. 31
60: (Davy): Art. 32
61: (Kälin/Caroni/Heim): Art. 33 para. 1
62: (Zimmermann/Wennholz): Art. 33 para. 2
63: (Denza): Diplomatic Asylum
64: (Marx): Art. 34
Chapter VI: Executory and Transitory Provisions
65: (Zieck): Art. 35/Art. II
66: (Zieck): Art. 36/Art. III
67: (Schmahl): Art. 37
Chapter VII: Final Clauses
68: (Oellers-Frahm): Art. 38/Art. IV
69: (Geiß): Art. 39/Art. V
70: (Gil-Bazo): Art. 40
71: (Gil-Bazo): Art. 41/Art. VI
72: (Pellet): Art. 42/Art. VII
73: (Geiß): Art. 43/Art. VIII
74: (Geiß): Art. 44/Art. IX
75: (Einarsen): Art. 45
76: (Geiß): Art. 46/Art. X
77: (Geiß): Art. XI

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Andreas Zimmermann is Professor of Law, University of Potsdam and Director Potsdam Centre of Human Rights; Dr. jur. (Heidelberg), LL.M. (Harvard); former Member of the German delegation to the Preparatory Committee and the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; counsel in various cases before the ICJ; judge ad hoc in various cases before the European Court
of Human Rights; arbitrator under the annex to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; member of the advisory board on UN issues of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs; co-editor, inter alia, of The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2006).