Monday, April 23, 2012

New Issue: New York University Journal of International Law and Politics

The latest issue of the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (Vol. 44, no. 2, Winter 2012) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: Uncovering Asylum: A Conversation on Refugee Law, Sexual Orientation, and Moving Towards a Just Jurisprudence
    • Jeffrey D. Stein, A Brief Introduction to the Conversation
    • James C. Hathaway and Jason Pobjoy, Queer Cases Make Bad Law
    • Richard Buxton, A History from Across the Pond
    • Ryan Goodman, Asylum and the Concealment of Sexual Orientation: Where Not to Draw the Line
    • John Tobin, Assessing GLBTI Refugee Claims: Using Human Rights Law to Shift the Narrative of Persecution Within Refugee Law
    • David John Frank, Making Sense of LGBT Asylum Claim: Change and Variation in Institutional Contexts
    • Jenni Millbank, The Right of Lesbians and Gay Men to Live Freely, Openly, and on Equal Terms Is Not Bad Law: A Reply to Hathaway and Pobjoy
    • Deborah Anker and Sabi Ardalan, Escalating Persecution of Gays and Refugee Protection: Comment on Queer Cases Make Bad Law
    • Guglielmo Verdirame, A Friendly Act of Socio-Cultural Contestation: Asylum and the Big Cultural Divide