Jenny Poon

PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario

Jenny Poon is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario and a qualified Barrister & Solicitor in Ontario, Canada. She was previously a Visiting Study Fellow at the University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre for Trinity Term 2017.

Her research focuses on examining the principle of non-refoulement as a norm in international and European law and a comparative analysis of the norm in the United Kingdom and Germany.

She is affiliated with the Council for European Studies (Columbia), the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (UNSW), the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (Toronto), the Refugee Law Initiative (London), the International Migration Research Centre (Balsillie), and the Centre for Refugee Studies (York).

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