2021

Anniversaries are an occasion to look back and to reassert the importance of the person celebrating a jubilee. The same holds for the Geneva Convention that was signed on 28 July 1951 and is often celebrated as the ‘magna carta’ of international refugee law and serves as a point of reference in contemporary debates. In an interview with the podcast of the public radio broadcaster ‘Deutschlandfunk – Der Tag’ (in German), Daniel Thym presents the achievements and limitations of the Refugee Convention, which have characterised the evolution of international refugee law from the beginning. A thorough discussion can be found in the open access essay ‘Sollbruchstellen des deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts’ published with de Gruyter.