Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law Speaker Event
Sponsored by the American-Scandinavian Foundation
“Torn Between the Lover and the Love You Leave Behind:
Forced Migration, Human Trafficking, and Access to Hell”
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Tom Syring
Visiting Lecturer in Rule of Law and Forced Migration,
Jan. 30, 2020
5 p.m.
Room 129
Claude W. Pettit College of Law
525 South Main Street
Ada, OH 45810
Open to the public, reception to follow
Free CLE – approved with the Ohio Supreme Court
Tom Syring is the 2020 American-Scandinavian Foundation Visiting Lecturer in the Rule of Law and Forced Migration, Chairman of the Human Rights Research League, and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He has previously been a Visiting Scholar at Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, a Legal Adviser at the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board, and taught at the University of Oslo and at Boston University as a Lecturer in International Law and Visiting Fulbright Scholar.
Syring has published and lectured on issues at the intersection of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, refugee law, and human rights. This talk aims to provide a legal backdrop to the convoluted challenges of forced migration and discuss some of the root causes of conflict and inherent drivers of migration and refugee flows underlying current global crises.