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James C Simeon

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School of Public Policy and Administration

Professor
On Sabbatical Leave

Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 77083
Email: jcsimeon@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/jcsimeon
Secondary website: http://www.yorku.ca/ciirl/

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Dr. James C. Simeon is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, and a former Head of McLaughlin College, Director of the SPPA, and a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), at York University, Toronto, Canada.

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Prior to joining the faculty at York University, James served as the first Executive Director of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ), now the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ). He is currently an Associate Member of the IARMJ and serves as the Coordinator of its Inter-Conference Working Party Process. He is also one of the founding members of the IARMJ America Chapter. He is the immediate past President of the Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC).

James served on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) as a Member and Coordinating Member from September 1994 to October 2005. While a Member and Coordinating Member of the IRB he sat on a number of high profile cases, including, Pushpanathan, an exclusion case under Article 1F of the 1951 Convention that had been argued at the Supreme Court of Canada.

James has been awarded an International Opportunities Fund (IOF) grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with Professor Kate Jastram (University of California at Berkeley) for a collaborative project with Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (University of Oxford), Professor Geoff Gilbert (University of Essex), and Professor Jane McAdam (University of New South Wales). The research project is entitled “War Crimes and Refugee Status: The Application and Interpretation of International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law to the Adjudication of Refugee Status in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.”

In May 2008, he was awarded funding from Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Justice Canada, the Ontario Law Foundation, SSHRC and a number of other organizations to hold a Research Workshop on Critical Issues in International Refugee Law at York University, http://www.yorku.ca/ciirl/, that featured a number of prominent Superior Court Judges and leading legal academic scholars from around the world.

Degrees

PhD, York University
MA, York University
BA, Wilfrid Laurier University
LLM, University of Cambridge

Professional Leadership

Coordinator, Inter-Conference Working Party Process of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ); President, Canadian Association for Refugees and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), 2011-2012 and currently an Executive Member of the CARFMS Board.

Research Interests

Public Administration , Public Policy, Forced Migration, Law and Justice, International Human Rights Law, International Refugee Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law