Distinguished friends
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Sir Keith Ajegbo
George Alagiah OBE
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah
Professor Peter Atkins
Julian Baggini
Dr Rob Berkeley
Richard Beswick
Professor Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Sir Nicholas Blake
Sir Ian Blatchford
Lord David Blunkett
Dr Alan Borg CBE FSA
Mihir Bose
Alain de Botton
John Bowers QC
Rt. Hon. Lord Browne of Ladyton
The Duke of Buccleuch KBE
Rickie Burman
Saimo Chahal QC
Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE
Dr Jung Chang
Stephen Claypole
Professor Robin Cohen
Professor Linda Colley CBE
Professor David Crystal
Prakash Daswani
Lord Navnit Dholakia
Lloyd Dorfman CBE
Lord Alf Dubs
Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson
Graham Farmelo
Baroness Flather
Daniel Franklin
Dr Edie Friedman
Manjit S Gill QC
Teresa Graham CBE
Susie Harries
Naomie Harris
Professor James Hathaway
Sophie Herxheimer
Afua Hirsch
Lord Michael Howard
Clive Jacobs
Kevin Jennings
Sir Adrian Johns KCB CBE DL
Shobu Kapoor
Jackie Kay
Ayub Khan-Din
Professor Francesca Klug OBE
Sir Hans Kornberg FRS
Tony Kushner
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE
David Kynaston
Brian Lambkin
Lord Anthony Lester QC
Joanna Lumley OBE
Michael Mansfield QC
Heather Mayfield
Sue McAlpine
Neil Mendoza
David Miles
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Tessa Murdoch
Sandy Nairne CBE
Bushra Nasir CBE
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
David Olusoga
Julia Onslow-Cole
John Orna-Ornstein
Lord Herman Ouseley
Panikos Panayi
Lord Bhikhu Parekh
David Pearl
Caryl Phillips
Dr Mike Phillips OBE FRSL FRSA
Trevor Phillips
Sunand Prasad
Michael Rosen
Cathy Ross
Sir Salman Rushdie
Jill Rutter
Professor Philippe Sands QC
Sir Konrad Schiemann
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley
Saira Shah
Nikesh Shukla
Jon Snow
Robert Soning
David Spence
Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah
Stelio Stefanou, OBE, DL
Lord Dick Taverne QC
Andy Thornton
Robert Tombs
Lord Rumi Verjee
Patrick Vernon OBE
Edmund de Waal OBE
Iqbal Wahhab OBE FRSA
Yasmin Waljee OBE
Jake Wallis Simons
Sir David Warren KCMG
Iain Watson
Henning Wehn
Gary Younge
Benjamin Zephaniah
When people think about migration in an abstract, decontextualised way it can appear frightening – even threatening. But when we come to see migrants as people who share our hopes and aspirations, fear recedes and appreciation can grow. The Migration Museum is poised to make a major contribution to this project of contesting false assumptions and opening our collective eyes to the real gifts that migrants bring to their new communities.
Professor James Hathaway
Professor Hathaway, the James E and Sarah A Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan since 1998, is a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam, Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme, and President of the Cuenca Colloquium on International Refugee Law.
From 2008 until 2010 he was on leave from the University of Michigan to serve as the Dean of Law and William Hearn Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he established Australia’s first all-graduate legal education program. He previously held positions as Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada (1984–98), Counsel on Special Legal Assistance for the Disadvantaged to the Government of Canada (1983–4), and Professeur adjoint de droit at the Université de Moncton, Canada (1980–3). He has been appointed a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo, and at the Universities of California, Macerata, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Professor Hathaway’s publications include more than seventy journal articles, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, 1991, republished in both Japanese and Russian), an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997) and, most recently, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005) – the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention.
He is Emeritus Counsel on International Protection to the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and Founding Patron and Honorary Director of Asylum Access, a non-profit organisation committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South. He also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports and directs the Refugee Caselaw Site (www.refugeecaselaw.org), a website that collects, indexes, and publishes leading judgments on refugee law. He regularly advises and provides training on refugee law to academic, non-governmental, and official audiences around the world.