Dr James C. Simeon
Dr James C. Simeon, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, is the Vice-President, and a past President, of the Canadian Association of Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). He serves as the Coordinator of the International Association for Refugee and Migration Judges’ (IARMJ) Inter-Conference Working Party Process. His areas of research include international refugee law, human rights law, humanitarian law, criminal law, and public policy and administration. He publishes in these areas of research and organizes and leads academic and professional conferences, symposia, and workshops. Prior to joining the faculty at York University, he served on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) and as the Executive Director of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ), the predecessor of the IARMJ.
Select publications
- Dynamics of Governance: A Public Policy eCasebook. Captus Press Inc., 2024. https://info.captus.com/catalogue?BookNumber=1483. (164 pages)
- Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration, New York: Routledge, 2022. https://www.routledge.com/Serious-International-Crimes-Human-Rights-and-Forced-Migration/Simeon/p/book/9780367556235. (412 pages)
- Terrorism and Asylum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Nijhoff, 2020. https://brill.com/view/title/54510. (424 pages)
- Critical Issues in International Refugee Law: Strategies Towards Interpretative Harmony, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, October 2010. (217 pages) First paperback edition released in 2013. http://www.cambridge.org/ca/knowledge/isbn/item2705722/Critical%20Issues%20in%20International%20Refugee%20Law/?site_locale=en_CA
- “The Use and Abuse of Forced Migration and Displacement as a Weapon of War,” Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6 July 2023, 5:1172954. doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2023.1172954. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1172954/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Human_Dynamics&id=1172954.
- “Ending Exclusion for Refugee Protection and Advancing International Justice,” with Commentary by Dr. Joseph Rikhof, Laws 2022, 11(4), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11040061 (registering DOI), https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/11/4/61/htm.
- “The Evolving Common Law Jurisprudence Combatting the Threat of Terrorism in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada,” Laws, 2019, 8(1), 5, (pp. 1-43) https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/8/1/5.
- “Refugee Adjudication Under the UNHCR’s Mandate and Statute and the Post-Exclusion Dilemma,” Cambridge Law Review, Vol II, 2017, pp. 75-108. https://d7f88eea-b31a-4add-844f-0416859d1953.filesusr.com/ugd/fb0f90_817ba79a66474cf7822ed9178bfab58c.pdf.
Further links
- https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/james-c-simeon
- https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/jcsimeon/
- https://rli.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-james-c-simeon
