birth_place school_tradition color nationality field institution birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
canada refugee law #d 7837f american , canadian refugee law university of michigan 1956 usa james c. hathaway
 james hathaway york columbia university -lrb- j.s.d. , ll.m . -rrb- university -lrb- ll.b . hons . -rrb- ,
james c. hathaway

james hathaway -lrb- born 1956 -rrb- is a leading authority on international refugee law and related aspects of human rights and public international law .
his work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world , and has played a pivotal role in the evolution of refugee studies scholarship among his more critical achievements , hathaway pioneered the now well-accepted understanding of refugee status as surrogate or substitute protection of human rights -lrb- -lsb- http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/law-refugee-status-2nd-edition the law of refugee status , 2014 -rrb- ; he authored the world 's first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees , merging doctrinal study of refugee and human rights law with empirical analysis of the state of refugee protection around the world -lrb- the rights of refugees under international law , 2005 -rrb- ; and he directed a multidisciplinary and global team of scholars and officials in an initiative to reconceive the structures of refugee protection more fairly to share burdens and responsibilities -lrb- reconceiving international refugee law , 1997 -rrb- .
