Matthew Scott

Biography

 Matthew Scott is an international lawyer specializing in forced displacement and international migration at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. His doctoral thesis, which he will defend in 2018, focuses on the legal protection of people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, and this is one of the issues he focus on at RWI. He also teach Masters-level courses in international human rights law and international refugee law at Lund University and for the University of London, School of Advanced Study MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies. In addition to legal qualifications he also hold a MA in Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Matthew Scott has close to 15 years of experience working in the field of international migration and forced displacement, including with UNHCR, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship and as a specialist immigration and asylum legal aid lawyer in London. His academic work has been published in the International Journal of Refugee Law, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Forced Migration Review and in specialist edited volumes. He is a doctoral affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative, a member of the Lund/Uppsala Migration Research Network (LUMIN), an Examiner of the University of London and a Member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Research Interest

 Human Rights