Simon Behrman

Associate Professor

Director of Student Wellbeing (PGT) (T2&3)

Asylum and Refugee Law

Term 2 Office Hours: Thursdays 4-5pm; Fridays 12:30-1:30pm

School of Law
S1.17, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 73441

Scholarship

My main research interests are in various aspects of asylum and refugee law. At present I am engaged in two long term, projects, on climate refugees, and asylum in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh).

Bio

I studied Law at Birkbeck, University of London, and earned my PhD there with a thesis on the history of asylum, refugee law and sanctuary movements. Since then I have published widely on these and related themes.

In relation to climate refugees in recent years I have worked closely with various international organisations such as the International Organisation for Migration, and the Platform for Disaster Displacement. In the past I also ran a joint project with the British Red Cross educating young people on aspects of refugee law and the refugee experience.

Prior to joining Warwick I taught at Birkbeck, University of East Anglia and Royal Holloway. For a number of years I was also a Visiting Lecturer at LUISS in Rome.

Publications

Canga, Pinar, Behrman, Simon, 2022. The impact of the European Union on Turkey?s policy of immigration detention. European Journal of Migration and Law, 24 (3), pp. 357-378
Behrman, Simon, Kent, Avidan, 2021. Prospects for protection in light of the Human Rights Committee?s decision in Teitiota v New Zealand. Polish Migration Review, 06, pp. 24-35
'Behrman, Simon, 'Kent, Avidan, 2020. 'The Teitiota Case and the limitations of the human rights framework. Questions of International Law, 75, pp. 25-39
'Kent, Avidan, 'Behrman, Simon, 2020. 'Climate-induced migration : will tribunals save the day?. Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs, 2 (2)
'Behrman, Simon, 2019. 'Refugee law as a means of control. Journal of Refugee Studies, 32 (1), pp. 42-62
'Behrman, Simon, 2019. 'Laws of asylum and protection : the Indian experience in a South Asian context. Refugee Watch : A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 54, pp. 15-28
'Behrman, Simon, 2018. 'Refugees and crises of law. Patterns of Prejudice, 52 (2-3), pp. 107-120
'Behrman, Simon, 2016. 'Between law and the nation state : novel representations of the refugee. Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 32 (1), pp. 38-49
'Behrman, Simon, 2016. 'Migration and neoliberalism : creating spaces of resistance. Historical Materialism, 24 (1), pp. 217-231
'Behrman, Simon, 2015. 'Grassroots asylum and legal strategies : a case study of the US sanctuary movement. Birkbeck Law Review, 3 (2), pp. 200-221
'Behrman, Simon, 2014. 'Accidents, agency and asylum : constructing the refugee subject. Law and Critique, 25 (3), pp. 249-270
'Behrman, S., 2014. 'Legal subjectivity and the refugee. International Journal of Refugee Law, 26 (1), pp. 1-21
'Behrman, Simon, 2011. 'Police killings and the law. International Socialism, pp. 39-67

'Kent, Avidan, 'Behrman, Simon, 2022. 'Climate refugees : is litigation an effective strategy?. In Climate Refugees : Global, Local and Critical Approaches, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 357-372
'Kent, Avidan, 'Behrman, Simon, 2020. 'Mind the gap : addressing the plight of climate refugees in international law. In Nobil Ahmad, Ali; The Heinrich Boll Foundation, (eds.), ClimateJustice and Migration : Mobility, Development, and Displacement in the Global South, Heinrich Boll Foundation, pp. 21-41
'Kent, Avidan, 'Behrman, Simon, 2018. 'Facilitating the resettlement and rights of climate refugees : an argument for developing existing principles and practices.
'Behrman, Simon, 'Kent, Avidan, 2018. 'Overcoming the legal impasse? Setting the scene. In Behrman, Simon; Kent, Avidan (eds.), Climate refugees : beyond the legal impasse?, London, Routledge, pp. 3-15
'Behrman, Simon, 2018. 'Law and asylum : space, subject, resistance.

'Behrman, Simon, 2021. 'Review of The Stranger as my guest : a critical anthropology of hospitality by Agier, Michel. International Journal of Refugee Law, Oxford University Press, pp. 528-530
'Behrman, Simon, 2019. 'Review of Archiving sovereignty : law, history, violence by Motha, Stewart. Social & Legal Studies, SAGE Publications, pp. 730-733
'Behrman, Simon, 2015. 'Reconfiguring the concept of asylum. Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
'Behrman, Simon, 2009. 'Not so smooth criminologist : a Review of Marxism and criminological theory : a critique and a toolkit by Cowling, M.. International Socialism, Socialist Workers Party (Britain), pp. 215-217

Teaching Projects Research Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD supervisees. However, please ensure that you have a research proposal which corresponds with the University of Warwick School of Law requirements.

Please see my Research Interests for details of my own interests and specialisms. I also have experience in supervising students on the following topics: the relationship between Islamic and secular law, international human rights law, international criminal law.

Current PhD Students:

Sabha Arshad
Hsiang-Yu Liu

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
Assessing Rights to Bangladeshi Citizenship of Stateless Rohingya Children	British Academy	01 Apr 2021	31 Mar 2023