Functions

Professor of International Refugee Law

Professor of Public International Law at the Pakistan College of Law, Lahore, Pakistan

Publications

Books

• UNHCR and Voluntary Repatriation of Refugees; A Legal Analysis, 1997, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague;

• UNHCR’s Worldwide Presence in the Field;  A Legal Analysis of UNHCR’s Cooperation Agreements, (April) 2006, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen;

• UNHCR’s Parallel Universe. Marking the Contours of a Problem, Vossius Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2010 (inaugural lecture series, no. 363).

Edited publications

• Editor of a report on ‘Restrictive Measures in Europe’, written by the Working Group on Refugee Law of the Netherlands Branch of the International Law Association, April 1992 (with E.W. Vierdag);

• Peoples and Minorities in International Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1993 (with C.M. Brölmann and R. Lefeber).

Articles

• “De UNPO in bijzondere vergadering bijeen” [Special Meeting of the Unrepresented Peoples’ Organization], 4 VN Forum 1991, 8-10;

• “The Concept of ‘Generations’ of Human Rights and the Right to Benefit from the Common Heritage of Mankind with Reference to Extraterrestial Realms”, 25 Verfassung und Recht in Ubersee 1992, 161-198;

• “Voluntary Repatriation: An Analysis of the Refugee’s Right to Return to his own Country”, 44 Austrian Journal of Public and International Law 1992, 137-176;

• Contribution on refugee law to the National Advisory Board on Development Aid, published in the Advice of the Board on Refugees, Displaced Persons and Development Aid (Advies Vluchtelingen, ontheemden en ontwikkelingssamenwerking) (no. 102), August 1993;

• “Staten en Inheemse Volken” [States and indigenous peoples], 6 VN Forum 1993, 105-113 (with C.M. Brölmann);

• “Indigenous Peoples”, in C.M. Brölmann, R. Lefeber, M.Y.A. Zieck (eds.), Peoples and Minorities in International Law, Dordrecht, 1993, 187-220 (with C.M. Brölmann);

• “Zikomo Malawi”[On the voluntary repatriation of Mozambican refugees from Malawi], 7 VN Forum 1994, 9-12;

• “Some Remarks on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”, 8 Leiden Journal of International Law 1995, 105-113 (with C.M. Brölmann);

• “UNHCR’s ‘Special Agreements’”, in J. Klabbers, R. Lefeber (eds.), Essays on the Law of Treaties. Essays in Honour of Bert Vierdag, 1998, 171-187 [This article has been included in J.C. Hathaway (ed.), Human Rights and Refugee Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013];

• “The Panamanian Assumption of Full Control of the Administration of and Operation of the Panama Canal”, 13 Leiden Journal of International Law 2000, 695-707;

• “Codification of the Law on Diplomatic Protection: the First Eight Draft Articles”, 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 2001, 209-232;

• “Veiligheidsraad-resolutie 1441 en de vraag naar de rechtmatigheid van unilateraal militair geweld tegen Irak” [UN Security Council resolution 1441 and the question of the legality of unilateral military force against Iraq], Nederlands Juristen Blad 2002, No. 45-46, 2240-2241 (with J. van Wielink);

• “Regeren is vooruitzien: Turkse aanspraken op Noord Irak in het licht van een mogelijke oorlog tegen Irak” [Turkish claims to Northern Iraq against the possibility of war against Iraq], Nederlands Juristen Blad 2003, No. 5, 232-233 (with J. van Wielink);
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• “Voluntary Repatriation: Paradigm, Pitfalls, Progress”, 23 Refugee Survey Quarterly 2004, 33-54 [This article was selected by Oxford University Press, celebrating its centenary as a publisher of learned journals, to form part of a collection of 100 seminal papers taken from 180 journals (2006)}
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•  “Vanishing Points of the Refugee Law Regime” [response to James Hathaway], 20 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 2005, 217-248 [also included in 26 Immigration and Nationality Law Review (University of Cincinnati College of Law) 2006];

• “Materieelrechtelijke consequenties van UNHCR’s institutionele expansie” [substantive legal consequences of UNHCR’s institutional expansion], 81 Nederlands Juristen Blad 2006, No. 37, 2121-2125;

• “Diplomatiek en Consulair Recht” [Diplomatic and Consular Law], in N. Horbach, R. Lefeber, O. Ribbelink (eds.), Hoofdstuk 9 in Handboek Internationaal Recht [Ch. 9 in Textbook Public International Law], Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2007, 275-308;

• “In the Aftermath of Voluntary Repatriation: the Fate of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan”, 3 Pakistan Law Review 2007, 1-51;

• “Toepassing relativiteitsvereiste strandt op eisen vluchtelingenverdrag” [On the meaning of ‘admission as refugee’ in the light of the object and purpose of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in response to a judgment of the Netherlands Supreme Court], 83 Nederlands Juristenblad 2008, No. 21, 1283-1289;

• “The Legal Status of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, A Story of Eight Agreements and Two Suppressed Premises”, 20 International Journal of Refugee Law 2008, 253-273;

• “Doomed to Fail from the Outset? UNHCR’s ‘Convention Plus Initiative’ Revisited”, 21 International Journal of Refugee Law 2009, 387-420;

• “UNHCR’s toezicht op de toepassing van het Vluchtelingenverdrag” [UNHCR’s supervision of the application of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees], Asiel & Migrantenrecht 2010, no. 2, 59-67;

• “Accession of Pakistan to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees: ‘Signing on Could Make All the Difference’”, 5 Pakistan Law Review 2010, 1-54;

• “UNHCR and Turkey, and Beyond: of Parallel Tracks and Symptomatic Cracks”, 22 International Journal of Refugee Law 2010, 593-622;

• “Commentary on Article 35 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Article II of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees”, in A. Zimmermann (ed.), Commentary on the 1951 Convention relating on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, Oxford University Press, 2011, 1459-1510;

• “Commentary on Article 36 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Article III of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees”, in A. Zimmermann (ed.), Commentary on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, Oxford University Press, 2011, 1511-1534;

• “Extraterritoriale werking voor UNHCR’s mandaatverklaringen: UNHCR zou zich er sterk voor moeten maken” [response to article on inaugural lecture Zieck by UNHCR representative Netherlands],  Asiel|& Migrantenrecht 2011, no. 10, 477-480;

• “’Quota refugees’, the Dutch Contribution to Global Burden-Sharing by Means of Resettlement of Refugees”, 39International Journal of Legal Information 2011, 130-163;

• “The 1956 Hungarian Refugee Emergency, an Early and Instructive Case of Resettlement”, 5 Amsterdam Law Forum 2013, 45-63;

• “The Limitations of both Voluntary Repatriation and Resettlement of Refugees”, in V. Chetail C. Bauloz (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2014, 562-585;

• “From Internment to Resettlement of Refugees: On US Obligations Towards MeK Defectors in Iraq” (with Tom de Boer), 15 Melbourne Journal of International Law 2014, 21-108;

• “Particulier initiatief en de bescherming van vluchtelingen. Een Canadees voorbeeld dat navolging verdient”, Ars Aequi, juni 2015, 424-436 [een zogenaamde ‘amuse’];

• “ICC Witnesses and Former Suspects Seeking Asylum in The Netherlands: An Overview of the Jurisdictional Battles Between the ICC and Its Host State”, with Tom de Boer, 27 International Journal of Refugee Law 2015, 573-606;

• “Introductory Note to Guidelines on International Protection No. 11: Prima Facie Recognition of Refugee Status (UNHCR)”, 54 International Legal Materials 2015 [American Society of International Law], 1115-1126;

• “The European Refugee Crisis from a Vantage Point of View”, 45 Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 2016, 3-9;

• “Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons”, Terry Gill, Dieter Fleck, William Boothby, Alfons Vanheusden, eds, Leuven Manual on the International Law Applicable to Peace Operations, Cambridge University Press, December 2017, Ch. 4.4, 204-222, with Tom de Boer.

• James C. Hathaway, Marjoleine Zieck & Eighth Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law, “The Michigan Guidelines on Refugee Freedom of Movement”, 39 Michigan Journal of International Law 2018, 5-17;

• “Refugees and the Right to Freedom of Movement: From Flight to Return”, 39 Michigan Journal of International Law 2018, 19-116;

•  “Over toeval en impulsen in de vorming van het (inter)nationale vluchtelingenrecht” [On coincidence and impulse in the formation of (inter)national refugee law], 293-303 in G.P. van Nifterik, J. de Vries, M. de Wilde (eds.), De Achterkant van Minerva, Amsterdam Law School, 2019 (Liber amicorum Prof. Dr. C.M. Cappon);

• “The Legal Abyss of Discretion in Resettlement of Refugees: Cherry-Picking and the Lack of Due Process in the EU”, with Tom de Boer, 32 International Journal Refugee Law 2020, 54-85;

• “Reimagining Voluntary Repatriation”, Ch. 59 in Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster, Jane McAdam (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press, 2021, 1064-1079;

• “Mijn rechtsheld: James Hathaway”, 71 Ars Aequi (01), 2022, 4-5.