Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, All Souls College, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill is also Professor of International Refugee Law, was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988. He practises as a Barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London, and he has written extensively on refugees, migration, international organizations, elections, democratization, and child soldiers; Recent publications include/ The Refugee in International Law/, (OUP, 2007), 3rd edn. with Dr Jane McAdam; /Free and Fair Elections/, (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2nd edn., 2006); /Basic Documents on Human Rights/, (OUP, 2006), 5th edn., with Ian Brownlie, eds.
Publications
Selected Books:
'The Right to Seek Asylum: Interception at Sea and the Principle of Non-refoulement' (2011) 23 International Journal of Refugee Law 443
The Limits of Transnational Law: Refugee Law, Policy Harmonization and Judicial Dialogue in the European Union, with Hélène Lambert, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
Brownlie’s Documents on Human Rights, with Ian Brownlie, Q.C., eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 6th edn., 2010; 5th edn., 2006; 4th edn., 2002
Free and Fair Elections, (2nd revised edn., Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva, 2006)
The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie (ed. with S. Talmon) (OUP, 1999)
The Refugee in International Law (3rd edn. with J. McAdam)(OUP, 2007)
Child Soldiers (with I. Cohn) (OUP, 1994)
International Law and the Movement of Persons between States (OUP, 1978)
Selected recent articles and book chapters:
‘The Search for the One, True Meaning...’, in Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Hélène Lambert, eds., The Limits of Transnational Law: Refugee Law, Policy Harmonization and Judicial Dialogue in the European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 204-41
‘The Extra-Territorial Reach of Human Rights Obligations: A Brief Perspective on the Link to Jurisdiction’, in Laurence Boisson de Chazournes & Marcelo G. Kohen, eds., International Law and the Quest for its Implementation/Le droit international et la quête de sa mise en oeuvre: Liber Amicorum Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 293-308
'Migrant Rights and "Managed Migration",' in V. Chetail, ed., Mondialisation, migration et droits de l'homme: le droit international en question (Globalization, Migration and Human Rights: International Law under Review) (Bruxelles: Bruylant Volume II, 2007), pp.161-88
'State Responsibility and the "Good Faith" Obligation in International Law', in D. Sarooshi and M. Fitzmaurice, eds., Issues of State Responsibility Before International Judicial Institutions (Hart Publishing, 2004), Chapter 6
'Article 31 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Non-penalization, detention, and protection', in E. Feller, V. Türk, F. Nicholson, eds., Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection (CUP, 2003), p.185
'Forced Migration and International Law', (and K.Newland) in T. A. Aleinikoff & V. Chétail, Migration and International Legal Norms (TMC Asser, 2003), p.123
'Refugees and Responsibility in the Twenty-First Century: More Lessons from the South Pacific', 12 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal (2003), p.23
'The Individual Refugee, the 1951 Convention and the Treaty of Amsterdam', in E. Guild & C. Harlow, eds., Implementing Amsterdam: Immigration and Asylum Rights in EC Law (Hart Publishing, 2001), p.141
'Refugees: Challenges to Protection', 35 International Migration Review (2001), p.130
'Migration-International Law and Human Rights', in B. Ghosh, ed., Managing Migration: Time for a New International Regime? (OUP, 2000), p.160
'Crimes in International Law: Obligations Erga Omnes and the Duty to Prosecute', in G. Goodwin-Gill and S. Talmon, eds., The Reality of International
