Mr Matthew Zagor

Refugee law - doctrinal, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches (eg refugee narrative identities

General focus: refugee & human rights law discourse and jurisprudence from constitutional, international, historical, interdisciplinary and critical legal perspectives.

Specific focus: doctrinal, critical, neocolonial and discursive perspectives on refugee and constitutional law, policy and politics; anti-nominianism, political theology and legal obligation in international law; judicial predispositions, political philosophies, and cultural approaches to rights (domestic and international); constitutionalisation of executive sovereignty; resettlement and refugee ‘pathways’; the legal imaginary of borders in international law; refugee recognition, narrative and identity formation; the evolution of ‘humanity’ and 'sentiment' in international law; occupation, annexation, apartheid and the Israel-Palestine conflict; cluster munitions, interoperability and ‘third parties’; constitutional ‘veneration’ in comparative perspective; constitutional patriotism.

Current research: activist academia and refugee law; radical Jewish activism and Gaza; rewriting migration jurisprudence (Kisch Me If You Can); strategic litigation and consitutionalising the rights of nature.

Specific projects:

• Co-lead, Rewriting Judgments Project – Centering Refugee and Migrant Voices (with Dr Eve Lester);
• Cluster Co-Lead with AssP Jonathan Liljebald and AssP Sarah Milne, Law Governance & Institutions, Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions
• ‘The End of Law and the Law Reborn – The antinomian revolutions of John of Patmos and Sabbatai Tevi’