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Christian Pangilinan

Senior Lecturer of Law

Email: christian@stl.pku.edu.cn

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COURSES TAUGHT

  • Legal Analysis, Writing and Research

  • International Law Competition

EDUCATION

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

  • M.A., University of York

  • B.A., University of British Columbia

BIO

Christian Pangilinan is Senior Lecturer of Law. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. from the University of York and a B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia. He previously served as STL’s Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs from 2016-2023 and, previously, as Director of Transnational Legal Practice and Academic Support from 2015-2016. Before coming to STL, he provided legal aid to refugees and asylum seekers in Tanzania with and worked with LL.M. students at Georgetown University Law Center. 

He has interned with the Asia Foundation’s Law and Human Rights Unit, the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, among others, and was a member of the Street Law and the D.C. Law Students in Court Clinics. In addition to teaching Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research, he advises moot court teams and develops academic support programming for STL students. He has previously taught International Refugee and Migration Law and the Transnational Legal Practice Seminar. 


Publications

  • Local Integration and Congolese Migrants in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 African Human Mobility Review 1 (2015)

  • Forced Migration, in A Companion to State Power, Liberties and Rights (eds. Sharon Morley et al.) (2017)

  • A Role for the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights in Developing a Binding Regional Framework for Refugee Protection, 19 African Yearbook of International Law 45 (2014)

  • Human Rights Challenges for Sexual Minorities in Dar es Tanzania, LGBTQ Policy Journal (2014) 

  • The First Country of Asylum Principle in Tanzania: A National and East Africa Perspective, Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter (May 2013).

  • Challenging RSD clients’ preferences for foreign service providers, 41 Forced Migration Review (2012)

  • The Dispute Over Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines: The Need to Define Extrajudicial Killings as State-Sponsored Acts, Philippine Law Journal (2012)

  • Human Rights in Aquino’s Philippines, 13 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2012),

  • Implementing a Revised Urban Refugee Policy in Tanzania, 2 Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (2012)


Presentations

  • “American Indian Law Goes Abroad” at Asia Law Institute Conference (2014) – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • “A Role for the African Court of Justice and Human Rights in Developing a Binding Regional Framework. for Refugee Protection” at African Association of International Law Conference (2013) – Maputo, Mozambique

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