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Fall 2024

5327 Asylum Law - SHEFFY/PISANO-GOETZ- 25320

Professor(s): Georgianna Pisano-Goetz (ADJUNCT)
Parker Sheffy (ADJUNCT)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: International Law 

Time: 4:00p-5:30p  MW  Location: 311 

Course Outline: This course will cover United States asylum and refugee law, as well as protection under the Convention Against Torture and withholding of removal.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face)  The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Prerequisites:  

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 12/4/2024 3-6pm  311    

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:


Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: REFUGEE LAW AND POLICY: A COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL APPROACH Fifth Edition Musalo, K., Moore, J., Boswell, R., Daher, A. (ISBN: 9781611638486)