Adamantly Immigration-based: Refugee Status Determination in Japan
- Date
- November 07, 2024
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 2:00 PM EST
- Location
- POD-457 | Lunch will be provided
- Open To
- TMU Community
- Website
- https://torontomu.zoom.us/j/91762840785 (external link)
We are delighted to welcome Professor Kohki Abe, one of Japan's foremost human rights and refugee law scholars, to the Lincoln Alexander School of Law.
Prof. Abe will present the state of refugee law and refugee status determination in Japan, discuss the current development of refugee protection in Japan, and explore future possibilities based on his ten-year practice as a Refugee Examination Counselor appointed by Japan's Justice Minister.
Following this presentation, Lincoln Alexander Law's Prof. Hilary Evans Cameron will join Prof. Abe in conversation to share insights into the common challenges facing asylum applicants in refugee status determination systems internationally.
Kohki Abe is currently a professor of international law at Meiji Gakuin University's Faculty of International Studies where he served as dean from 2020 to 2022. He is also a professor of international law at Kanagawa University School of Law, Japan, where he served as dean until 2008; a visiting professor at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and professor emeritus at Kanagawa University, where he was a professor of law from 1993 to 2018 and dean of the law school from 2006 to 2008.
Prof. Abe is also a Co-Representative of the Refugee Studies Forum in Japan, and an executive member of the Japanese Society of International Human Rights Law, the Japan Peace Studies Association, and the Japan branch of the Asian Society of International Law.
He holds a doctoral degree from Waseda University in Japan, a LLM from the University of Virginia School of Law, and a BA in Law from Waseda University. His main area of focus is international refugee law, international human rights law, and peace research.