MATTHEW C. SCOTT

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1 MATTHEW C. SCOTT EDUCATION Sep 12 May 18 Aug 08 Jun 10 Oct 03 Jun 07 Sept 98 Aug 99 Aug 94 May 98 PhD PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden Thesis: Refugee Status Determination in the Context of Natural Disasters and Climate Change: A Human Rights-Based Approach POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LEGAL PRACTICE (DISTINCTION) College of Law, London, UK [Part time] LLB (UPPER SECOND CLASS HONOURS) University of London External Programme [Part time] MA SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT (MERIT) University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) UK Dissertation: An Analysis of Irrigation Development in Morocco BA INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (SUMMA CUM LAUDE) Simon s Rock College of Bard, USA Thesis: Religious Environmental Ethics: Ecological Interpretations of Buddhism and Islam CURRENT EMPLOYMENT/COMMISSIONS Researcher and Team Leader, People on the Move, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (since 2017) Convenor (2018), tutor and examiner (2016) on online MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London PUBLICATIONS Matthew Scott, Refugee Status Determination in the Context of Natural Disasters and Climate Change: A Human Rights-Based Approach (Lund University Press 2018) Matthew Scott, Finding Agency in Adversity: Applying the Refugee Convention in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change (2016) 35 Refugee Survey Quarterly 26 Matthew Scott, A role for Strategic Litigation (2015) 49 Forced Migration Review: Disasters and Displacement in a Changing Climate 47 Brandeis Institute of International Judges 2015 Conference Report International Courts, Local Actors (principal rapporteur) Matthew Scott, Refuge from Climate Change-Related Harm: Evaluating the Scope of International Protection within the Common European Asylum System in C Bauloz and others (eds) Seeking Asylum in the European Union: Critical Perspectives on the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff 2015) Matthew Scott, Food Security, Climate Change and Mediterranean Migration from the Sahel Roma Tre Magazine, 2015 Matthew Scott, Klimatförändring och Migration Artikel 14, Journal of Flyktingrupparnas Riksråd (FARR) Matthew Scott, Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Non-Refoulement: What Scope for Resisting Expulsion under Articles 3 and 8 ECHR? (2014) 26 International Journal of Refugee Law 404

2 PEER REVIEW ACTIVITY McGill University International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS Member of The Law Society of England and Wales (since 2008) Doctoral Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London School of Advanced Study (Since 2013) Examiner of the University of London (Since 2016) CONFERENCES; WOKSHOPS; SYMPOSIA; VISITING ACADEMIC POSITIONS December Organised and facilitated workshop on internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change: a human rights-based approach, Jakarta, Indonesia 4-5 December Co-organised workshop Should I stay or should I go? Understanding refugee decision-making in first countries of asylum, Istanbul, Turkey October Participated in AICHR consultation on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Sabah, Malaysia October Facilitated workshops on citizenship, civil documentation and non-discrimination with universities and the National Human Rights Commission in Mandalay and Yangon, Myanmar under project supported by UNHCR January February Visiting Academic at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, University of New South Wales, Australia July 2016 (presenting paper on invitation) - Finding agency in adversity: the Refugee Convention in the context of disasters and climate change, University of East Anglia conference 'Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse' 29 June - 1 July 2016 (presenting paper) 'Finding agency in adversity: the future of international refugee law in the context of disasters and climate change', Refugee Law Initiative, First Annual Conference: The Future of Refugee Law?, University of London, United Kingdom 11 May 'opponent' in mid-seminar for Martin Joorman at Legal Sociology Department. Title of manuscript considered 'A Legitimate Migrant? The first ten years of Swedish migration law precedence ( ) and the discursive legitimation of a juridified migration administration' 3-4 May 2016 (jointly coordinating and presenting) - By invitation symposium: Disasters and Displacement in a Warming World: Current Realities, Legal Perspectives - Paper title 'How should refugee lawyers conceptualise disasters?', Lund University, a collaboration between the Lund-Uppsala Migration Law Network (LUMIN) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law 3-4 March 2016 (presenting paper on invitation) - 'Complementary Protection in Situations of Cross-Border Disaster-Related Displacement', at The Protection of Persons in Times of Disasters: International and European Legal Perspectives, International Disaster Law Project, Rome, Italy December 2015 (attending) - NEEDS - The First Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2

3 30 November 2015 (radio appearance) - 'Studio ett reder ut asylrätten' 16 October 2015 (presenting paper at seminar) paper Natural hazards, human actors, serious harm: Refugee protection through understanding the social construction of disasters at Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) 10 July 2015 (radio appearance) - 'Australiens läkare får ej prata om missförhållanden i flyktingförvaren', Studio ett 1 July 2015 (presenting) paper Förbered för framtidens klimatflyktingar genom att fokusera på nutidens flyktingar och migranter at Almedalen, Lund / Uppsala Migration Law Network paneldiskussion Döden i Medelhavet, klimatmigration och trovärdighetsproblem håller asylrätten för framtiden? 22 June 2015 (presenting) seminar The dark side of sanctuary: Sweden and the Common European Asylum System for Suffolk Summer School, Lund University 7-8 May 2015 (presenting) paper Natural hazards, human actors, serious harm: Bridging protection gaps through understanding the social construction of disasters at Nordic Asylum Law Seminar, Uppsala University 15 April 2015 (presenting on invitation) - 'klimatflyktingar' at Migrationsöverdomstolen (the Swedish Migration Court of Appeal) in Stockholm 7 January 2015 (presenting) paper Causes of migration in the Mediterranean at Brandeis Institute of International Judges public roundtable Migration in the Mediterranean, Malta 5-8 January 2015 (principal rapporteur) - Brandeis Institute for International Law Judges, Malta November seminar to Migrationskollegiet (group of lawyers practicing asylum and immigration law in Malmö and Lund) on 'Klimatflyktingar och EKMR' 20 November 2014 seminar LGBTI asylum claims for Jus Humanis Winter Forum at Lund University 18 November 2014 seminar Disaster-related harm and international protection in an era of climate change for Vänsterjuristerna seminar series 4-5 November 2014 (presenting) paper Food security, climate change and Mediterranean migration from the Sahel at Migration and the Mediterranean, a conference jointly organised by Lund University, the Universities and Swedish Institutes, the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies and Roma Tre University held in Rome, Italy 6-7 October 2014 (presenting) paper Developing protection from disaster-related harm in an era of climate change: Practitioner perspectives on strategic litigation at LUMIN Lund Symposium 29 July - 1 August 2015 (rapporteur) Brandeis Institute for International Law Judges, Raoul Wallenberg Institute 25 April 2014 (presenting) paper Refuge from climate change-related harm: Evaluating the scope of international protection following New Zealand s Teitiota Judgment at Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, Doctoral Affiliates Network, Second Postgraduate Workshop on Refugee Law 26 March 2014 seminar Introduction to international refugee law and some recent developments relating to LGBTI claimants and climate refugees at Amnesty International s Juristgruppen at Lund University 6-7 February 2014 (presenting) paper Developing international protection for environmental migrants: confronting legal and extra-legal obstacles through strategic litigation at L/UMIN Workshop, Lund University 27 January 2014 (presenting on invitation) paper Natural disasters, climate change and non-refoulement: what scope for resisting expulsion under Articles 3 and 8 ECHR? to judges of the UK Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) 3

4 November 2013 seminar Legal Writing at ELSA Lund Legal English seminar series 14 November 2013 (presenting) Climate change related displacement: what scope for protection under refugee and human rights law at workshop by the same name initiated by me in collaboration with Bruce Burson of the New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal, and hosted by the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London November 2013 (attending) - The Borders of Protection: The Relationship between Human Rights Law and Refugee Law at Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London 5 November 2013 (attending) International Law Day, Gothenburg University 5 October 2013 seminar Climate change refugees: What rights when nature strikes? at Juridikens Dag, Lund University and associated lunch time seminar at the Law Faculty 23 September 2013 (presenting) paper Taking Responsibility for Climate Change-Related Displacement: Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Proportionality of Expelling Climate Refugees at 8th Uppsala Forum Workshop on Global Climate Change: Dealing with Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Loss, Damage, Adaptation and Social Justice 30 January 2013 (presenting on invitation) EU citizenship and fundamental rights developments and future directions in the Zambrano doctrine at Amnesty International / Swedish Red Cross gathering of asylum and immigration practitioners in Stockholm Multiple seminars on the EU Reception Conditions Directive in collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross and the Odysseus Academic Network delivered to lawyers, hospital staff and officers at Migrationsverket 6-9 January 2013 (presenting) paper Protecting climate change displaced persons through strategic litigation: The potential application of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights at IASFM 14: Contested Spaces and Cartographic Challenges, Kolkata, India October 2012 (presenting) paper Strategic litigation to protect climate change migrants given at International Law Day at Uppsala University September 2012 (attending) Climate-Related Migration and the Need for New Normative and Institutional Frameworks, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES Tutor and examiner on introduction to international refugee law course Protecting human rights, refugees and displaced persons in international law, part of the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies offered through the University of London International Programme and coordinated by the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study Lecturer and examiner on LLB and LLM courses at Lund University in international refugee law and international human rights law on topics including Climate change in international refugee law and international human rights law Economic, social and cultural rights The European system for the protection of human rights Protection of particular groups under international refugee law, including women, children and people fearing persecution on the basis of gender or sexual identity Free movement of persons under EU law 4

5 Supervisor and examiner of MA theses on international and EU refugee law, international and European human rights law and the free movement of persons under EU law EARLIER EMPLOYMENT Aug 11 Aug 12 Feb 07 Mar 11 Sep 06 Feb 07 Aug 05 Jul 06 Jul 03 Jul 05 CONSULTANT SOLICITOR WAINWRIGHT & CUMMINS SOLICITORS (UK) Advised and represented diverse range of immigrants and asylum-seekers from initial contact through to higher courts in private practice Delivered training on immigration law to non-specialist solicitors Contributed to the development of Lexis Nexis online Immigration service SENIOR CASEWORKER IMMIGRATION ADVISORY SERVICE (UK) Advised and represented diverse range of immigrants and asylum-seekers from initial contact through to higher UK and European courts Specialist focus on asylum, EU free movement, public law actions against the UK Border Agency, criminal deportation, unaccompanied minors and trafficking cases CASEWORKER THE LAW SOCIETY OF ENGLAND AND WALES (UK) Worked with solicitors and their clients to resolve complaints concerning professional conduct and service OPERATIONS AND POLICY OFFICER DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP (AUSTRALIA) Managed a high-profile caseload, liaising with external agencies and overseas authorities and preparing briefing papers for the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship and the Commonwealth Ombudsman Assisted in the revision of existing Departmental policy on identity issues and immigration detention and delivered training to State and Territory headquarters around Australia MIGRATION OFFICER AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY (RUSSIA) Implemented a high-volume migration programme, increasing efficiency in case management, managing locally-engaged caseworkers and tracking evolving caseload characteristics Conducted research on migration from Russia, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus, supervising one research assistant Attended regional migration forums with representatives of diplomatic missions LANGUAGES Very good working knowledge Good working knowledge Limited working knowledge Swedish Russian Arabic French Spanish 5