Deportation Law and Practice: A Global Perspective

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On April 22, Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program and Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World convened a panel of authors of a prospective book on comparative migration law on deportation to explore the experience of deportation law and practice at an international level. Moderated by Professor Gerald Neuman ’80, members of the panel, composed of scholars and practitioners from Australia, China, and France and an upcoming judge of European Court of Human Rights, shared their thoughts and findings in the area. Panelists: Sanzhuan (Sandra) Guo PhD, is a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School Human Rights Program and an Associate Professor from Flinders University, Australia. She is an accredited immigration law specialist in Australia and the Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on International Migration and International Law. She is a qualified lawyer in China, the U.S., and Australia. She was the co-convener of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) Workshop project on ‘A Critical Lens on Mass Deportation of Non-citizens: Law, Crimes and Technology’ (2024). Marinella Marmo PhD is a professor of Criminology at Flinders University Australia. She is a leading scholar on deportation, human mobility and modern slavery. Her research has been cited by academics and senior policymakers worldwide. She is a chief investigator of Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project on Criminal Deportation (2021-2026) and co-convener of the ASSA Workshop project on ‘A Critical Lens on Mass Deportation of Non-citizens: Law, Crimes and Technology’ (2024). Thibaut Fleury Graff PhD is a professor of International Law at Paris Panthéon-Assas University (France). He is also an international expert for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the co-chair of the ILA Committee on International Migration & International Law and of the RefWar Project (ANR 2019-2024). Vasilka Sancin (PhD), a professor and the head of Department of International Law of the University of Ljubljana, will start her judgeship with the European Court of Human Rights in May 2025. She served (2019-2022) as a member and vice chair of the Human Rights Committee, the treaty body of ICCPR. She is the co-chair of ILA Committee on International Migration and International Law. Professor Gerald L. Neuman ’80 (moderator) is the director of the School’s Human Rights Program, and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at HLS. Neuman teaches courses in international human rights law, immigration and nationality law, and U.S. constitutional law. From 2011 to 2014, he served as a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee. Neuman holds a JD from HLS and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.