vant interpretive principles like the principle of non-retrogression. What is the relationship between the Vienna Convention and human rights, humanitarian, and refugee treaties? Is nonretrogression a free-standing principle of treaty interpretation? As the case of Suresh v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) illustrates, such questions are more than academic. The Federal Court of Appeal in this case used the 1951 Refugee Convention to undercut the absolute right to be free of torture as recognized in the Torture Convention. The above points are not meant to detract from any particular paper or from the collection as a whole. Rather, they underscore the complexity and timeliness of the convergence problem. Those concerned with the human rights of refugees and the internally displaced from dispossession to refuge to settlement or repatriation will find Human Rights and Forced Displacement a valuable book. Those interested in the more general question of the cross-fertilization of international regimes will also find it worthwhile. One hopes that this collection of essays will inspire scholars and advocates alike to dedicate more time and energy to the issues surrounding convergence, compatibility, and cross-fertilization of legal traditions.
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