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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024

Is International Refugee Law Effective?

Is International Refugee Law effective? This is the central question of RefLex, a project that will offer the first comprehensive empirical study of the workings and effectiveness of International Refugee Law (IRL), a body of law partly imbricated with International Human Rights Law (IHRL), domesticated and judicialized to an extraordinary degree across the globe. There are many theoretically and empirically rich studies of effectiveness of International Human Rights Law (IHRL), as well as many other fields of International Law (IL) in constructivist International Relations (IR) in particular. The effectiveness of human rights courts and other bodies is also a well-established academic…

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