Judgement in CJEU-case of Migration Law Clinic
On 12 April 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in case C-550/16. The CJEU in its judgment followed the argumentation in the expert opinion of …
Law professors object to Italy seizing migrant rescue boat Open Arms
A group of 29 leading international law academics in Europe are calling today for Italy to cease its policy of promoting, directing and enforcing returns to Libya with immediate effect after …
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The Social Rights of Irregular Migrants. A Quiet Revolution in European Judicial Discourse
Lieneke Slingenberg is a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) from February until June 2018. In her project, she investigates the …
Horizon 2020 project: Ceaseval
Hemme Battjes, Evelien Brouwer and Hans van Oort participate in the Horizon 2020 project CEASEVAL. This project includes a comprehensive evaluation of the Common European Asylum System in a two-year …
Sarah van Walsum-lecture: Audrey Macklin
Lecture 8 September 2017: Audrey Macklin Resettler Society: Making and Remaking Citizenship Through Private Refugee Sponsorship In her lecture Audrey Macklin introduces her research about private sponsorship of …
Betty de Hart appointed Professor
On September 1st, 2017, Betty de Hart will be appointed Full Professor of “Transnational families and migration law” at VU Amsterdam, in the section of migration law of the department …
Situation of Readmitted Migrants and Refugees from Greece to Turkey under the EU-Turkey Statement
After intensive negotiations between EU member states and Turkey between November 2015 and March 2016, EU and Turkey released a Statement on March 18, 2016 indicating their willingness to increase …
SvW-lecture: Deborah Anker
5 September 2016: Deborah Anker Social Justice, Gender and Legal Change in Asylum Law Legal change is often thought of as change from the top down – change brought about …
EUROMIX: Regulating Mixed Intimacies in Europe
Professor Betty de Hart is the recipient of a 2016 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to establish an independent research team for her research project entitled EUROMIX: Regulating Mixed …
Sarah van Walsum-lecture: Peggy Levitt
29 September 2015: Peggy Levitt Global Social Protection: Protecting and Providing Outside the Nation-State Framework In today’s world, more than 220 million people live in a country that is not …