May 13, 2025ProgramDeportation Law and Practice: A Global Perspective
Watch immigration law experts discuss comparative perspectives on the law and practice of deportation, as part of our April 22 panel event at Harvard Law School.
On April 22, our Program, jointly with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, hosted a panel of international legal experts to discuss timely developments in immigration law globally. Moderated by Professor Gerald Neuman ’80, the panel included scholars and practitioners from Australia, China, and France and an upcoming judge of European Court of Human Rights, who shared findings of their research and legal practice, who offered perspectives from their upcoming book on comparative deportation law to explore the substance, practice, and experiences of deportation law across multiple jurisdiction globally.
Our panel experts, which included Sanzhuan (Sandra) Guo (PhD), a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, Marinella Marmo (PhD), Professor of Criminology at Flinders University Australia, Thibaut Fleury Graff (PhD), Professor of International Law at Paris Panthéon-Assas University, and Vasilka Sancin (PhD), Professor of International Law of the University of Ljubljana and upcoming judge at the European Court of Human Rights in May 2025, emphasized that while states exercise a great deal of latitude in shaping immigration law and policy, their powers are also not unconstrained. State prerogatives are generally limited by rule of law, constitutional rights, as well as customary international law and treaty norms connected with expulsion of non-citizens and human rights.
A recording of the panel discussion is available here.