Liliana Jubilut is a Professor of International Law, Human Rights and Refugee Law, Universidade Católica de Santos. She holds a PhD and a Master in International Law by Universidade de São Paulo and an LLM in International Legal Studies by NYU School of Law. She was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and a Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Law Initiative (University of London). Currently, she coordinates the Research Group “Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidades” and the UNHCR Sérgio Vieira de Mello Chair at Universidade Católica de Santos. She has been working with refugee issues since 1999, and has been a Lawyer/ Protection Officer at the Refugee Reference Center of Caritas Arquidiocesana de São Paulo and a UNHCR-Brazil Consultant. She participates in several national and international research projects and is a Member of IOM´s Migration Research Leaders Syndicate.