Global migration and the challenge for international human rights and refugee law

Professor Jonathan Hafetz is an expert on constitutional law, national security, human rights, and international criminal law. He joined Seton Hall Law School in 2010. Professor Hafetz is the author of the books, Punishing Atrocities through a Fair Trial: International Criminal Law from Nuremberg to the Age of Global Terrorism (Cambridge Univ. Press 2018), and Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America’s New Global Detention System (NYU Press 2011), which received the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts, Honorable Mention, and the American Society of Legal Writers, Scribes Silver Medal Award. He is also the editor of Obama’s Guantanamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison (NYU Press 2016) and the co-editor (with Mark Denbeaux) of The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (NYU Press 2009). Professor Hafetz’s scholarship has appeared in numerous publications. Professor Hafetz received a Fulbright Scholarship award for Japan in 2021-2022. From 2014-15, Professor Hafetz was a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Professor Hafetz is an internationally recognized constitutional and human rights lawyer. Prior to joining Seton Hall, he was a senior attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, a litigation director at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, and a John J. Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons, P.C. From 2017-2020, Professor Hafetz was on leave from Seton Hall Law as a senior attorney at the ACLU. Professor Hafetz has represented prisoners in locations across the globe and litigated landmark cases challenging arbitrary detention, rendition, and torture. Professor Hafetz has testified before Congress, and frequently provides expert commentary for major media outlets and news programs. His op-eds have appeared in many publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Slate, The Hill, The Nation, Politico, and The Guardian. He is a frequent blogger for Balkinization, Just Security, and other web sites. Professor Hafetz is the former chair of the New York City Bar Task Force on National Security and the Rule of Law. He has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad. In 2020, Professor Hafetz was named to the List of Experts for the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Professor Hafetz is the creator and editor of the podcast, Law on Film, which looks at law through film, and film through law (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2073468) Professor Hafetz earned his J.D. from Yale Law School. He holds an M. Phil in Modern History from Oxford University and a B.A. from Amherst College. Following law school, Professor Hafetz served as a law clerk to Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Aleksandar (Alex) Stojicevic is the founding and managing partner of MKS Immigration& Citizenship Lawyers and one of the most respected immigration lawyers in Canada with more 26 years of experience in the field. He is the Refugee Officer for 2021/2022 for the Immigration & Nationality Committee. Aleksandar-Alex-Stojicevic-immigration-lawyer-vancouver-canada Aleksandar Stojicevic Partner Phone: 6043434163 Email: alex@vancouverlaw.ca Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in political science from the University of Calgary (1991) and a law degree from the University of British Columbia (1994). Alex was also Adjunct Professor at UBC Law School in 2011 and 2016, teaching immigration law . Alex has a varied practice involving both litigation and solicitors work. He practices before all three divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Federal Court and the Federal Court Of Appeal. Alex also advises the human resources department of a number of major companies, nonprofit organizations and several large education institutions in British Columbia on foreign work related matters. This practice also involves filing a broad range of economic class applications, including Provincial nominee program applications across the spectrum of categories. A proud CBA member, Alex has been heavily involved with the CBA and the CBA National Immigration Section over the past 15 years. He was a member of the Executive of the CBA (BC) immigration section branch starting in 2003 and was elected in 2004 as a table officer with the National CBA Immigration Law Section, serving as Chair from 2008 to 2009. He also served on the CBA National Sections Subcommittee in 2019 and 2020 and was part of the CBA Leadership Forum. With a proven dedication to mentoring, Alex has been a faculty member for many provincial, CBA (BC) and National professional development conferences, as well as for various other organizations and NGOs – lecturing on a wide variety of immigration and citizenship issues.