Tal Schreier

Tal is the Asper Centre’s Program Coordinator, responsible for the Centre’s events, community outreach, advocacy, and overseeing the Asper Centre’s student researchers and student working groups. Tal holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Cape Town.  Prior to the Asper Centre, Tal served as the first Legal Coordinator for the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program & Lifeline Syria. From 2002 until 2014, Tal worked at the University of Cape Town Refugee Rights Unit, where she managed its UNHCR-funded refugee legal aid clinic, convened and led training programs on refugee rights for government officials, police, social workers, and community members, taught refugee law to law students and led research projects, including co-editing and co-writing South Africa’s first textbook on refugee law, titled Refugee Law in South Africa (Juta: 2014, second edition 2023).