The GSLC was founded in September 2021 to empower civil society to advance the rights of refugees and migrants through strategic litigation and legal advocacy. The Council has a membership of over 500 refugee leaders, lawyers, advocates, NGOs and academics from every region of the world. Its Secretariat is jointly housed at the Program and the Zolberg Institute at the New School. The Council supports its members to share knowledge, collectively identify priorities, and develop and implement litigation and advocacy strategies to advance the protection of people on the move. In doing so, it aims to support the consistent and progressive development of international law relating to displacement worldwide. The Council’s key thematic priority areas are detention & due process; legal status & lawful stay; and climate displacement. Its regional litigators, in India, Kenya and Mexico, have supported litigation and amicus briefing in nearly a half-dozen countries across the world and several trainings of hundreds of litigators.. Since 2021, the Council has co-hosted with UNHCR and several other groups the UNHCR Strategic Litigation Roundtable, which identifies the most significant refugee-rights cases litigated in the preceding year.