PROGRAMME
Friday 20 March 2015
Faculty Club, Kostis Palamas Building, Akadimias 48, Athens
Welcome
Professor Dionysia Kallinikou, Dean of the Faculty of Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Professor Maria Gavouneli, Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Keynote Adress
Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Panel I: Regulating the transit of irregular migrants
Chair: Professor Ilias Bantekas, Professor of International Law and Arbitration, Brunel University
The alternative plan for the protection of irregular migrant
Vasileia Pitarokoili, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
The duty to assist in distress: An alternative source of protection against the return of migrants and asylum seekers to the high seas
Lisa-Marie Komb, Bucerius Law School, Hambourg
The notion of "place of safety": Yet another self-contained maritime rule or a sustainable solution to the ever-controversial question of where to disembark migrants rescued at sea?
Martin Ratcovich, University of Stockholm
FRONTEX: The question of responsibility through the lens of the rule of law and effective legal protection
Mariana Gkliati, University of Leiden
Discussant: Professor Irini Papanicolopulu, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow & Assistant Professor,University of Milano-Bicocca
10:30-12:00
12:00-12.30 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00
Panel II: Regulating the Detention of Irregular Migrants
Chair: Maria Stavropoulou, Head, Asylum Service
The union of securitization and demography: Detention of African asylum-seekers in Israel
Dr. Ruvi Ziegler, University of Reading
Reception conditions for asylum seekers in the European Union: Towards the prevalence of human dignity
Lilian Tsourdi, Université Libre des Bruxelles
Immigration detention under EU law and the international obligations of member-states
Izabella Majcher, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Private firms and responsibility for violations of migrant rights
Dr. Theodore Baird, University of Amsterdam
Discussant: Dr. Maria Varaki, Lecturer in International Law, Kadir Has University
Lunch Break
14:00-16:00
16:00-17:30
Panel III: Protection challenges for asylum-seekers
Chair: Kalliopi Stefanaki, UNHCR, Athens
Irregular migrants in legal limbos
Professor Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
The dual European system of fundamental rights protection in the asylum procedure: The dialogue between Strasbourg and Luxembourg
Maria Louisa Deftou, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Discussing the legal value of implementing the Temporary Protection Directive to cope with large-scale influx of persons seeking refuge in the European Union
Meltem Ineli Ciger, University of Bristol
Economic and social rights in the State of reception: A critical assessment of it as a parameter in third country non-refoulement agreements
Solon Solomon, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Discussant: Dr. Violetta Moreno Lax, Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary London & EU Asylum Law Coordinator, Refugee Law Initiative, University of London
Coffee Break
17:30-18:00
18:00-19:30
Panel IV: Revisiting resettlement procedures and the Dublin system
Chair: Professor Maria Gavouneli, Assistant Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Point of non-return? Deportation with assurances and MoUs
Dr. Mariagiulia Giuffrè, Lecturer in Law, Edge Hill University
We need to talk about Dublin: Responsibility under the Dublin system as a blockage to asylum burden-sharing in the European Union
Minos Mouzourakis, UNHCR Brussels
The "safe third country" concept and the principle of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility in the refugee system
Eleni Karageorgiou, University of Lund
Voluntary and extraterritorial: Legal standards and accountability of refugee resettlement?
Sigrid Gies, University of Konstanz
Discussant: Professor Seline Trevisanut, Assistant Professor, University of Utrecht
Irregular Migration through the Mediterranean Sea: Obligations of States under international and European law - Tentative conclusions
Dr. Efthymios Papastavridis, Post-doctoral researcher, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Reception
Dinner for chairs and speakers
19:00-20:00
20:00-21:00
21:00-23:00
