The New Refugees Format: Paperback

David James Cantor is the director of the Refugee Law Initiative and a reader in Human Rights Law at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. David is an ESRC Future Research Leader and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on refugees and displaced persons in Colombia, where his work has influenced law and policy, as well as in other countries in the Andean region, Central America, Southern Cone, and Mexico. He has trained and advised governments across the globe, contributed to UNHCR and Nansen Initiative expert meetings, and runs a new distance-learning MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies.

Nicolás Rodríguez Serna is a Colombian qualified lawyer and researcher at the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Rodríguez Serna pursued an LL.B. in Law at Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, and an LL.M. in Public International Law at Queen Mary, University of London. He has worked as a consultant for UNHCR and its Implementing Partners in Colombia and Mexico on international protection issues and refugee status determination and with the Nansen Initiative. His research focuses on the international protection of displaced individuals under universal and inter-American law, disaster displacement in South America, and IHL.