This new edition of the leading textbook on international refugee law has been substantially updated and now features extensive coverage of forced migration. In its accessible and influential style, it defines refugee status and asylum, and sets out the protections afforded to refugees and forced migrations.

• 1. The Refugee in International Law


• Part 1: Refugees


• 2. Refugees Defined and Described


• 3. Determination of Refugee Status: Analysis and Application


• 4. Loss and Denial of Refugee Status and its Benefits


• Part 2: Asylum


• 5. The Principle of Non-Refoulement - Part 1


• 6. The Principle of Non-Refoulement - Part 2


• 7. Protection under Human Rights and General International Law


• 8. The Concept of Asylum


• Part 3: Protection


• 9. International Protection


• 10. International Cooperation, Protection, and Solutions


• 11. Treaty Standards and their Implementation in National Law


• 12. Displacement related to the Impacts of Disasters and Climate Change


• 13. Nationality, Statelessness, and Protection

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Professor of Law at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford; and Honorary Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford. He was a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London from 2002-2018, and Rubin Director of Research at the Institute of European Studies, University of Oxford, from 1997-2002. He was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, Professor of Law at Carleton University, Ottawa, and Visiting Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles; UNSW; Melbourne University; Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; and Osgoode Hall Law School. He has served as Senior Legal Research Officer at UNHCR and is the Founding Editor and former Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Refugee Law.
Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She publishes widely in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on mobility in the context of climate change and disasters. Professor McAdam is joint Editor-in-Chief of the leading International Journal of Refugee Law. In 2017, she was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Human Rights, becoming the first Australian recipient of the award. In 2021, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 'for distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people'.