ONLINE DEBATE: Using litigation to end statelessness

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Professor at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He practised as a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers from 2002-18 and is the founding editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law. The fourth edition of The Refugee in International Law will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2021.

Nuala Mole has law degrees from Oxford and the College of Europe in Bruges and an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex. In 1992 she founded the AIRE Centre to provide information, advice and litigation representation and support on European Law and international human rights law. She is the Centre’s Senior Lawyer. She has been involved in the litigation of over 150 cases before the European Court of Human rights and the Court of Justice of the EU. The main focus of her work is on immigration and nationality, asylum, child law and related topics.

Boštjan Zalar is a Senior High Court Judge at the Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia and has served as an Ad hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 2010. He is also the President of the European Chapter of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges and works as a trainer collaborating with a wide range of organisations including UN Refugee Agency, European Asylum Support Office, European Judicial Training Network and a number of national judicial training centres.

Laura Bingham is the senior managing legal officer for equality and inclusion in the Open Society Justice Initiative. She leads the program’s work on equality and nondiscrimination, focusing on access to effective remedies for structural discrimination in Europe, and on the right to nationality and access to documentation of identity, comprising litigation, legal empowerment, research, and advocacy worldwide. She has worked to achieve important judgments on arbitrary deprivation of nationality in Africa and challenges to segregated education and forced evictions in Europe.

Chris Nash is the Director and co-founder of the European Network on Statelessness. He has worked in the refugee and migration field for over 20 years, initially as an asylum lawyer and then at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the Refugee Council of Australia, Amnesty International  and Asylum Aid. Chris has written widely on asylum, migration and statelessness policy. He has also previously worked as a consultant, including for the UN Refugee Agency.

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