2016 JILFA Symposium: “The Worldwide Migration Crises”
The 2016 JILFA Symposium will explore the worldwide migration crises and their policy and legal implications
Friday, February 26, 201610:00 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA School of Law
Room 1347
Los Angeles, CA 90095
The worldwide migration crises currently underway represent an unprecedented challenge to people and countries across the globe. The 2016 JILFA Symposium will explore the topic as well as the policy and legal implications of steps taken by governments and organizations in response to the influx of migrants.
The United Nations recently estimated that worldwide displacement of refugees has reached its highest point since World War II. An estimated 14 million people were newly displaced by conflict or persecution and nearly 60 million people were living in situations of forced displacement worldwide. These numbers have been increasing. The ongoing conflict in Syria alone has led to 9.5 million internally displaced persons and 4 million refugees. The international migration crises spans the entire globe - from the Americas, to Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania - with each region facing both unique and similar motivators and responses.
The Symposium hopes to shed light on the issue of migration not only as a regional crisis to be dealt with in a bubble, but as a worldwide crisis where lessons can be drawn from differing legal and political responses. The day will examine differing law and policy approaches to shifting understandings of migration, refugees, and crises.
This event would not be possible without the support of our co-sponsors: the Law School Dean’s Discretionary Fund, the International and Comparative Law Program, UCLA Burkle Center, the Campus Programs Committee, and the Graduate Student Association. We are also thankful to JILFA’s faculty advisors Professor Asli Bâli and Jessica Peake, as well as all the JILFA staff volunteers who helped organize and put on this symposium.
Agenda: Friday, February 26, 2016
9:30-10:00 am – Arrival at Law School, registration, and breakfast
10:00-10:15 am – Opening Remarks (JILFA Staff)
10:15-11:30 am – Americas Panel:
• Prof. Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA)
• Prof. Jennifer Chacón (UCI/Stanford)
• Prof. Niels Frenzen (USC)
• Moderator: Professor Joseph Berra (UCLA)
11:30-12:00 pm – Break for Lunch
12:00-12:15 pm – Welcome & Introduction by Dean Mnookin
12:15-12:45 pm – Keynote Address
• Prof. T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Former Deputy UN High Commissioner for Refugees
12:45-2:00 pm – EU/ME/N. Africa Panel
• Prof. Asli Bâli (UCLA)
• Prof. Tendayi Achiume (UCLA)
• Prof. Maryellen Fullerton (Brooklyn Law School)
• Prof. Itamar Mann (Georgetown University Law Center)
• Moderator: Prof. Kal Raustiala (UCLA)
2:00-2:15 pm - Break
2:15-3:15 pm – Southeast Asia Panel
• Prof. Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple)
• Reena Arora (New York Lawyers for the Public Interest)
• Moderator: Professor Alex Wang (UCLA)
3:15-3:30 pm - Break
3:30-4:30 pm – Concluding Panel
Sponsor(s): Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA Law, International & Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA School of Law