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Susan M. Akram, JD

Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney

Boston University School of Law

International Human Rights Program

MSt, Oxford University
BA, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
JD, Georgetown University Law Center

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Professor Susan Akram directs BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic, international, regional, and UN fora. 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.

Akram's distinguished research was recognized with a Fulbright Senior Scholar Teaching and Research Award for the 1999–2000 academic year. She has lectured on Palestinian refugees to general audiences around the world as well as to committees of the United Nations (including the High Commission for Refugees and the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees), the European Union, and representatives of European and Canadian government ministries and parliaments. Since September 11, 2001 she has presented widely on the USA Patriot Act and immigration-related laws and policies as well as on her work challenging standard interpretations of women’s asylum claims from the Arab/Muslim world.

With her clinic students as well as in collaboration with other legal organizations, Akram has worked on resettlement and refugee claims of Guantanamo detainees, and has been co-counsel on a number of high profile cases, including the 20+-year litigation of a case of first impression on the interpretation of one of the exclusion bars to asylum, In Re A-H-. 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.

Clinical Associate Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Health Law, Policy & Management
Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights

BU Research

MENA Research and Advocacy Statelessness Network
11/10/2022 - 05/31/2023 (Subcontract PI)
American University of Beirut Open Society Fdns

Building momentum towards a Network on Reducing Statelessness in the MENA region
11/01/2019 - 03/31/2022 (PI)
Open Society Foundations

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Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

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Akram S. Abandoned Yet Central: Gaza and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Journal of Palestine Studies. Operation Protective Edge, and Why Getting the Law Right Matters. 2015.
Susan Akram. Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies, and Global Responsibility Sharing. Middle East Law and Governance. 2015; 7(287).
Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights (Susan Akram and Nidal Al-Azza, Eds.). Closing Protection Gaps: Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees in States Signatories to the 1951 Convention. 2015.
Akram SM. Still Waiting for Tomorrow: The Law and Politics of Unresolved Refugee Crises (Syring T, ed.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2014.
Akram SM. Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-First Century (Davis R, Kirk M, Eds.). The Legal Trajectory of the Palestinian Refugee Issue: From Exclusion to Ambiguity. Indiana University Press. 2013.
Akram SM. The Failure of the Two-State Solution: Prospects of One State in the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Faris H, Ed.). The Rights of Palestinian Refugees and Territorial Solutions in Historic Palestine. I.B. Tauris Publishers. 2013.
Akram SM, Lynk m. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Wolfrum R, Ed.). The Arab Israel Conflict. Oxford University Press. 2012.
International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace (Akram, Dumper, Lynk and Scobbie, Eds.). Routledge Publishers. 2010.
Akram, SM. The Dynamics of Constitutionalism in the Age of Globalisation (Frishman, Muller, eds.). Do Constitutions Make a Difference in the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights? Comparing the United States and Israel. Hague Academic Press. 2010.
Akram SM. Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Rubenberg C, Ed.). Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return. Lynne Rienner. 2010.

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Akram S. Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, 8 MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (Farsakh E, ed.). Myths and Realities of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. 2008. View Publication
Akram SM, al-Midani A, Cabinettes M. Boston University International Law Journal. The Arab Charter on Human Rights 2004. 2007; 24(146).
Akram SM, Lynk M. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights. The Wall and the Law: A Tale of Two Judgments. 2006; 24.
Akram SM. Boston University Public Interest Law Journal. Are they Human Children or just Border Rats?. 2006; 15(187).
Akram SM, Karmely M. UC Davis Law Review. “Immigration and Constitutional Consequences of Post 9-11 Policies Involving Arabs and Muslims in the United States: Is Alienage a Distinction without a Difference?. 2005; 38.
Akram SM, Rempel T. Boston University International Law Journal. Temporary Protection as an Instrument for Implementing the Right of Return for Palestinian Refugees. 2004; 22.
Akram SM, Johnson KR. Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (Hagopian, Ed.). Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims. Pluto Press. 2004.
Akram SM. Arab Studies Quarterly, Special Issue. The Aftermath of September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims in America. 2002; 24.
Akram SM, Johnson KR. NYU Annual Survey of American Law. Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration Law After September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims. 2002; 58.
Akram SM. Palestinian Refugees and their Legal Status: Rights, Politics and Implications for a Just Solution. Journal of Palestine Studies. 2002; 31.
Akram SM, Rempel T. The Palestine Yearbook of International Law. Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees: A Challenge to the Oslo Process. 2002; 11.
Akram SM. Human Rights and Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology (Hernandez-Truyol, Ed.). Orientalism Revisited in Asylum and Refugee Claims. New York University Press. 2002.
Akram SM. Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return (Aruri, Ed.). Reinterpreting Palestinian Refugee Rights Under International Law. Pluto Press. 2001.
Akram SM, Goodwin-Gill G. Brief Amicus Curiae on the Status of Palestinian Refugees Under International Law. The Palestine Yearbook of International Law. 2000; 11.
Akram SM. International Journal of Refugee Law. Orientalism Revisited in Asylum and Refugee Claims. 2000; 12(1).
Akram SM. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Scheherezade Meets Kafka: Two Dozen Sordid Tales of Ideological Exclusion. 1999; 41(51).
Akram SM. Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, Vol. II, Advanced Topics, 1995-96. Traps for the Unwary or Major Issues on Judicial Review of Deportation Decisions Under the Immigration & Nationality Act Section 106. American Immigration Lawyers Assoc. Pub. 1996.

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 27 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2002

Bar chart showing 27 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2002

Year	Publications
1996	1
1999	1
2000	2
2001	1
2002	5
2004	2
2005	1
2006	2
2007	1
2008	1
2010	3
2012	1
2013	2
2014	1
2015	3

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1999-2000 Fulbright Senior Scholar

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Domestic and International Refugee Advocacy
Immigration Law
Refugee Law

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