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Ruvi Ziegler
University of Reading, Law, Faculty Member
- Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Education, Department MemberUniversity of London, Refugee Law Initiative, Department MemberUniversity of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre, Department Memberadd
- I am Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the University of Reading, School of Law, where I am Directo... moreI am Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the University of Reading, School of Law, where I am Director of the Global LLM programmes in human rights, international law, and advanced legal studies.
*My forthcoming book, 'voting rights of refugees', will be available from Cambridge University Press in January 2017 (pre-order:http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/voting-rights-refugees?format=HB&isbn=9781107159310)
Institutional affiliations
*Academic Fellow, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
*Convenor, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section, Society of Legal Scholars
*Editor-in-Chief, Refugee Law Initiative (Institute for Advance Legal Study, University of London) Working Paper Series
*Research Associate, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford
*Researcher, Israel Democracy Institute (analysing the treatment of asylum seekers in Israel as part of the 'Democratic Principles' project)
Teaching
*I convene International Refugee Law and Israel/Palestine: International Law and Human Rights Issues on the LLM (postgraduate) programme. I also teach on the International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law modules.
*I convene and teach the core Public Law 2 (administrative law and civil liberties) module On the LLB (undergraduate) programme.
Select recent academic positions:
*Visiting lecturer, Hebrew University Law Faculty (international refugee law)
*Visiting Researcher, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW (Australia)
*Visiting researcher, Harvard Law School, affiliated with its immigration and refugee clinic and with its human rights program
*Tutor in Public International Law, University of Oxford
Qualifications:
*DPhil, MPhil, and BCL (Oxon);
*LL.M. with specialisation in Public Law (Hebrew);
*LLB and BA (Haifa).
*Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
*Called to the Israeli bar in 2003.(I am Associate Professor in International Refugee Law at the University of Reading, School of Law, where I am Director of the Global LLM programmes in human rights, international law, and advanced legal studies.<br /><br />*My forthcoming book, 'voting rights of refugees', will be available from Cambridge University Press in January 2017 (pre-order:http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/voting-rights-refugees?format=HB&isbn=9781107159310)<br /><br />Institutional affiliations <br />*Academic Fellow, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple<br />*Convenor, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section, Society of Legal Scholars <br />*Editor-in-Chief, Refugee Law Initiative (Institute for Advance Legal Study, University of London) Working Paper Series <br />*Research Associate, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford <br />*Researcher, Israel Democracy Institute (analysing the treatment of asylum seekers in Israel as part of the 'Democratic Principles' project) <br /><br />Teaching <br />*I convene International Refugee Law and Israel/Palestine: International Law and Human Rights Issues on the LLM (postgraduate) programme. I also teach on the International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law modules.<br />*I convene and teach the core Public Law 2 (administrative law and civil liberties) module On the LLB (undergraduate) programme. <br /><br />Select recent academic positions: <br />*Visiting lecturer, Hebrew University Law Faculty (international refugee law) <br />*Visiting Researcher, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW (Australia)<br />*Visiting researcher, Harvard Law School, affiliated with its immigration and refugee clinic and with its human rights program <br />*Tutor in Public International Law, University of Oxford <br /><br />Qualifications: <br />*DPhil, MPhil, and BCL (Oxon); <br />*LL.M. with specialisation in Public Law (Hebrew); <br />*LLB and BA (Haifa). <br />*Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA)<br />*Called to the Israeli bar in 2003.)edit
The chapter sets its analysis of the historical and contemporary detention of asylum seekers in Israel against a wider context of that country's national immigration policy. The chapter demonstrates that Israel perceives asylum... more
The chapter sets its analysis of the historical and contemporary detention of asylum seekers in Israel against a wider context of that country's national immigration policy. The chapter demonstrates that Israel perceives asylum seekers as a threat to its self-defined Jewish character. Its twofold conclusion argues that the government therefore subjects asylum seekers to harsh detention practices that afford detainees limited procedural guarantees, and that these procedures cut against the justification for detention as a measure to facilitate deportation.
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In its 27 May 2015 Queen’s speech, the Conservative government announced that ‘early legislation will be introduced to provide for an in/out referendum’. The following day, it introduced the European Union Referendum Bill, which passed... more
In its 27 May 2015 Queen’s speech, the Conservative government announced that ‘early legislation will be introduced to provide for an in/out referendum’. The following day, it introduced the European Union Referendum Bill, which passed its third reading in the House of Commons on 7 September 2015 (by 316 votes to 53). The second reading in the House of Lords is scheduled for 13 October 2015. Following the recommendation of the Electoral Commission, the initially proposed question: ‘Should the UK remain a member of the European Union?’ was replaced with an arguably more neutral question: ‘should the UK remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union’.
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The blog-post critically analyses the Israeli Supreme Court judgment (HCJ 8425/13 Anon v. Knesset et al) quashing the Prevention of Infiltration Law (Amendment no. 4), offering themes of comparative constitutional interest.
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Following the 31 October 2017 oral evidence session,1 and considering the Committee’s ‘Brexit: Acquired Rights’ report, this submission addresses the potential loss of electoral rights currently enjoyed by UK citizens in the EU27 and by... more
Following the 31 October 2017 oral evidence session,1 and considering the Committee’s ‘Brexit: Acquired Rights’ report, this submission addresses the potential loss of electoral rights currently enjoyed by UK citizens in the EU27 and by EU27 citizens in the UK. The submission addresses the issue of prolonged uncertainty regarding citizens’ status and rights, focusing on the ramifications of the EU institutions’ and the UK government’s positions. It argues that, uncertainty on both sides of the channel is brought about by the EU Council’s negotiating mandate and the UK government’s conditionality approach to the maintenance of rights of EU27 citizens, including electoral rights. The submission further contends that, should the UK’s withdrawal from the EU result in disenfranchisement, it may give rise to challenges under Article 3 of the First Protocol (A3P1) to the European Convention of Human Rights.The European Court of Human Rights has considered (local government) elections to th...
Just over two decades ago, the new South Africa (SA) adopted the Refugees Act No 130 of 1998 (RA), which incorporated the Republic’s global and regional international refugee law (IRL) obligations. For its time, the RA was progressive and... more
Just over two decades ago, the new South Africa (SA) adopted the Refugees Act No 130 of 1998 (RA), which incorporated the Republic’s global and regional international refugee law (IRL) obligations. For its time, the RA was progressive and advanced in terms of the scope and content of protection it provided for refugees. The coming into force on 1 January 2020 of the Refugees Amendment Act 11 of 2017 (RAA 2017) substantively and detrimentally altered the Republic’s refugee protection landscape by severely restricting access to the asylum regime and by denying asylum-seekers substantive rights that were previously available to them. The amended RA also withdraws status and protection from refugees, recognised as such under IRL. Indeed, many new provisions arguably violate both SA’s international obligations and its Constitution. Two decades after the coming into effect of the Refugees Act 1998 (RA), this article critically appraises access to effective refugee protection in SA through...
On Thursday 23rd June 2016, pursuant to the European Union Referendum Act 2015 , a UK-wide referendum will be held on the question: ‘should the UK remain a member of the EU or leave the EU’. Hitherto, much of the referendum debate has... more
On Thursday 23rd June 2016, pursuant to the European Union Referendum Act 2015 , a UK-wide referendum will be held on the question: ‘should the UK remain a member of the EU or leave the EU’. Hitherto, much of the referendum debate has concerned immigration (to the UK) by EU citizens, exercising their mobility rights, with rather unsavoury rhetoric concerning deportation of criminals and ‘warnings’ about future arrivals from candidate accession states. Alongside immigration, leading campaigners have argued that the referendum is, at heart, a about questions of sovereignty and democracy.
Topics of Xing-Qing Lun(the Philosophy of Nature/Feeling),in terms of evolution of histories of Chinese philosophy and ideology,tend towards be constantly developed to be more profoundly;yet to keep changing and varying all the... more
Topics of Xing-Qing Lun(the Philosophy of Nature/Feeling),in terms of evolution of histories of Chinese philosophy and ideology,tend towards be constantly developed to be more profoundly;yet to keep changing and varying all the time.Xing-Qing Lun in regards to history of ethical thoughts of Chinese philosophy,on the one hand,takes 'Qing(Feeling or Emotion)' to inspire the vigour lost in traditional thoughts,namely Li-Yue(Rites and Music),theories of human nature,etc.;on the other hand,it guards against that irrational 'Qing' and 'Yu(desires)' might lead to infinity of freedoms.Though Xing-Qing Lun is a vital presence in history of ethical thoughts of Chinese philosophy,its studies and researches by previous philosophical and ideological historians were restricted by two circumstances: firstly,the sinologist of west,A.C.Graham's old thought that Qing does not mean human's feeling in the period of pre-Qin;secondly,the pre-Oin's literature relics lac...
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Alona Nitzan-Shiftan’s exemplary and sophisticated book is an interdisciplinary study in the fields of architecture, urban geography, archaeology, history and politics. The book combines careful analytical research and a comprehensive... more
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan’s exemplary and sophisticated book is an interdisciplinary study in the fields of architecture, urban geography, archaeology, history and politics. The book combines careful analytical research and a comprehensive fieldwork. This is a highly informative and insightful book, providing an original perspective on the role of architecture in post-1967 Jerusalem. With this book, we better understand the construction of the unified city through policies, analyses of ideas, planners’ wishes, and the city architecture.
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On the cusp of Israel's 70th anniversary, Kimmy Caplan’s book Amram Blau is a timely and welcome contribution to the discussion on the role of Neturei Karta pre- and post-1948, appraised through the prism of its inspirational leader,... more
On the cusp of Israel's 70th anniversary, Kimmy Caplan’s book Amram Blau is a timely and welcome contribution to the discussion on the role of Neturei Karta pre- and post-1948, appraised through the prism of its inspirational leader, Amran Blau. This book is a historical biography of Blau, a complex person who led his life in an uncompromising way, who led by example, whose mind and mouth were the same, who was true to himself, and who dedicated his life to fight the Zionist movement. His constant failures did not deter him. He remained in staunch opposition to Israel until his last day, refusing to recognize the Jewish state and paying a high personal prize for living by his zealot principles.