The first edition of the law of refugee status published in 1991 is generally regarded as the seminal text on interpreting the refugee definition set by the uns 1951 refugee convention its groundbreaking analysis served as the bedrock for not only much judicial reasoning but also for a burgeoning academic literature in law and related fields. A person who is a refugee at international law is thus entitled in any of the nearly 150 state parties to the refugee regime to claim a powerful catalog of internationally binding rights including not only critical civil rights but also socio economic rights and rights that enable pursuit of a solution to refugeehood. The first edition of the law of refugee status published in 1991 is generally regarded as the seminal text on interpreting the refugee definition set by the uns 1951 refugee convention its groundbreaking analysis served as the bedrock for not only much judicial reasoning but also for a burgeoning academic literature in law and related fields