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This module provides an accessible overview of various elements of international law that govern the movement of people. This module will provide an introduction to disparate sources of international migration law, including relevant treaties and customs, from within international human rights law, refugee law, environmental law, maritime law, and labour law. This module will demonstrate what the current international law governing migration is and how it operates. The module will focus on key groups of migrants, such as refugees, internally displaced persons, people fleeing war, survivors of human trafficking, ‘climate refugees’, and migrant workers. The module will examine a broad variety of issues, such as global migration governance, non-refoulement principle, non-discrimination, children seeking asylum, human trafficking and smuggling, and criminalisation of migration.

The module will be taught through lectures and seminars. The lectures will introduce the topic and an overview of the different aspects of international migration law. The seminars will be interactive and will combine practical legal skills exercises and general scholarly discussions. Summative assessment will be through a moot court, which will include both written and oral rounds.

This module is suitable for students from all backgrounds, however, this is NOT an introductory module in international law. This module requires previous (basic) knowledge of international law. To be able to take this module and benefit from it, students should have already taken IRDR0034 International Legal Framework for Humanitarian Action or a similar module that introduces them to international law. This module is constructed based on the assumption that students already have a basic understanding of international law, but are curious about its particular area, international migration law.