Guest Lecture by Dr. Setu Gupta (Symbiosis Law School, Noida, INDIA)
The Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk, is pleased to invite you to a Guest Lecture by Dr. Setu Gupta from Symbiosis Law School, Noida, India.
📖 Lecture Topic: "Burden sharing in International Refugee Law: Analysis in the context of major refugee crises”
📅 Date: Friday, November 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 15:15 – 17:00 CET
💻 Format: Online
Effective refugee protection and assistance necessitates a sharing of responsibilities and close coordination between Southern and Northern states. The lecture discusses the international burden-sharing normative framework exploring prominent past and contemporary refugee crises and the corresponding response by the coordinating states.
Join us to gain valuable insights into the Burden sharing in International Refugee Law: Analysis in the context of major refugee crises, presented by an experienced academic with a global perspective.
How to Participate:
If you wish to attend, please contact us at siapl@ug.edu.pl to receive the event link.
We warmly welcome all members and friends of our Faculty community to this engaging and thought-provoking session!
Dr. Setu Gupta is Assistant Professor of Law at Symbiosis Law School, Noida, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), and Programme-in-Charge of its LL.M. programme. His research examines refugee protection, human rights adjudication and religious freedom in South Asia, with a comparative interest in European and international human rights systems. Dr. Gupta holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, with a thesis on international refugee law and India's refugee policy, an LL.M. in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from the same institute, and a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Dr. Gupta's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Religion & Human Rights, International Migration, the ISIL Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law and the ILI Law Review, and in a Springer volume on comparative law. Earlier, Dr. Gupta was a Consultant to the Law Commission of India, Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India contributing to work on simultaneous elections, sedition and family law reform, and advised on fraud investigation and anti-money-laundering at Deloitte. An approved Ph.D. supervisor, Dr. Gupta teaches public international law, jurisprudence, the law of evidence and legal research methods.