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Case Digest, Journal Staff
Case Digest, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Case Digest provides brief analyses of cases that represent cur-rent aspects of transnational law. The Digest includes cases that establish legal principles and cases that apply established legal principles to new factual situations. The cases are grouped in topical categories and references are given for further research.
Political Refugees, Nonrefoulement And State Practice: A Comparative Study, Robert C. Sexton
Political Refugees, Nonrefoulement And State Practice: A Comparative Study, Robert C. Sexton
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article will survey and assess the attempts of five of the major refugee receiving countries of the West, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Italy, to comply with the mandates of the Convention and Protocol. Specifically, inquiry will focus on the two issues most applicable to the admission and exclusion of political refugees: (1) domestic interpretation of the Convention definition of "refugee;" and (2) adherence to the principle of nonrefoulement, which is the Convention's proscription on returning persons falling within its refugee definition to countries of alleged persecution.
Section II explores the precise substantive provisions of the …