Locating Books in the Library

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The Law Library has a tremendous amount of valuable print resources related to refugee law. Use the online catalog, LawCat, to locate relevant books and materials. While keyword searching is a good way to begin one's research, subject searching is also valuable. Relevant subject headings include:

Basic Documents on International Migration Law (2nd rev. ed., The Hague; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; Cambridge, MA: Sold and distributed in the USA and Canada by Kluwer Law International, 1997).

Francis M. Deng, Internally Displaced Persons: Compilation and Analysis of Legal Norms (New York; Geneva: United Nations, 1998).

Ann Vibeke Eggli, Mass Refugee Influx and the Limits of Public International Law (The Hague; New York: Nijhoff; Norwell, MA: Distributed in North, Central, and South America by Kluwer Law International, 2002).

Human Rights and Forced Displacement (Anne F. Bayefsky and Joan Fitzpatrick eds., The Hague; Boston: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2000).

Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures (Joan Fitzpatrick ed., Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2002).

Refugee Protection in International Law (Feller et al., eds., Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Available on the UNHCR web site.

Thomas Spijkerboer, Gender and Refugee Status (Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt., USA: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2000).

Mark Von Sternberg, The Grounds of Refugee Protection in the Context of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Canadian and United States Case Law Compared (The Hague; New York: M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2002).

Prepared by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library, January 2006.