Susan Akram

Professor Susan Akram is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA), Georgetown University School of Law (JD), Oxford University (MA), and the Institut International des Droits del’Homme (Diplome). She directs BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. She teaches or has taught courses in International Human Rights, Refugee and Migration law, U.S. Immigration law and Palestinian Refugees under International Law. She has taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt and at Al-Quds and Birzeit Universities in Palestine. She regularly teaches in the summer institute on forced migration at
the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, and in various venues in the Middle East on refugee law.

Her research and publications focus on immigration, asylum, refugee, forced migration and human and civil rights issues, with an interest in the Middle East, the Arab, and Muslim world. Her book projects include Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises (with Tom Syring); International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace (with Mick Dumper, Michael Lynk and Ian Scobbie). Her articles and book chapters include “Palestinian Exceptionalism, Whether it Matters, and the Role International Agencies Play” in the Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies; “The Arab Israel Conflict,” (with Michael Lynk) in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law; and “Temporary Protection as an Instrument for Implementing the Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees” in the Boston University International Law Journal.