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Immigration Detention, the Right to Liberty, and Constitutional Law: Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 22

By Daniel Wilsher on 30 March 2017

The right to personal liberty is one of the oldest recognized rights in liberal democracies, which raises fundamental constitutional questions about the use of detention as an immigration measure. However, as this GDP Working Paper highlights, in common law countries, lengthy immigration detention on a large scale has become the norm and is largely regarded as constitutional. […]

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Panelist at UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s Stakeholders Consultation to prepare draft principles and guidelines on remedies and procedures on the right to court review of detention

By Michael Flynn and Global Detention Project on 1 September 2014

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Questionnaire related to the “Draft Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived of His or Her Liberty by Arrest or Detention to Bring Proceedings Before Court.”

By Global Detention Project on 17 January 2014

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