Faculty Colloquia Series: Jaya Ramji-Nogales

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Jaya Ramji-Nogales, the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, presents “Migration Emergencies.” Professor Ramji-Nogales is an expert in immigration law, international law, procedure and process. Her research areas include empirical assessment of asylum adjudication, international and comparative migration law, and transitional justice.

As a Senior Legal Advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia for more than 15 years, Professor Ramji-Nogales has authored several pieces on transitional justice in Cambodia, the lessons of which inform all of her work in the field. She is also the co-editor of “Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice: Prosecuting Mass Violence Before the Cambodian Courts.” She has also written on the situation of forced migrants under international criminal law and international humanitarian law and is a Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative of the School for Advanced Studies at the University of London.

Before entering academia, Professor Ramji-Nogales practiced law as a Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union in New York and as an Associate at the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. She was previously awarded a Robert L. Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights to create a refugee law clinic at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Ramji-Nogales is a senior editor of the IntLawGrrls blog.

2015-2016 Faculty Colloquium Series