Refugee in International Law, by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Jane McAdam
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Book Note
THE REFUGEE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, by Guy S.
Goodwin-Gill & Jane McAdam'
SARAH BOYD
THIS IS THE MOST RECENT EDITION2 of a canonical text on refugee law. It is
frequently cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in refugee law cases,3
indicating its importance to domestic Canadian refugee law.
This new edition takes into account a decade of developments in the
supranational, regional, and numerous national refugee protection regimes.
Goodwin-Gill and McAdam state that their goal is to describe the law as it
stood on 31 December 2006.' They discuss the increasing use of extra-
territorial interdiction and the excising of frontier territories from the national
refugee zones, a tactic employed by states hoping to duck their obligations
under the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol.5 The plight of
internally displaced people is addressed in more depth than in previous
editions; the authors also include the jurisprudence of the International
Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda (most of which
1. 3d ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2007) 848 pages.
2. The first edition was Guy Goodwin-Gill, The Refugee in International Law (Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1983). The second was (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996),
reprinted in 1998 with corrections.
3. See especially Canada (Attorney General) v. Ward, [1993] 2 S.C.R. 689; Pushpanathan v.
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 982 [Pushpanathan];
Moreno v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1994] 1 F.C. 298 (F.C.A.);
and Chan v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 593.
4. Goodwin-Gill & McAdam, supra note 1 at vi.
5. Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 189 U.N.T.S. 2545; Protocol relating to the Status
of Refugees, 606 U.N.T.S. 8791.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/ohlj46&div=12&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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