In December 2019 Karin de Vries, affiliated member of the ACMRL, was appointed as a country expert for the European Equality Law Network (EELN). The EELN has been set up …
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We are happy to announce that the that the Startup Clinic project of Marcelle Reneman, assistant professor in migration law at our section, has won the VU innovation award! Marcelle …
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On 7 January, the section officially said farewell to Pieter Boeles, who has been a visiting professor emeritus at the VU since 2013. Pieter has been of great value to …
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Maarten Kos, former IMRL student, has won the Hanneke Steenbergen Scriptieprijs 2019, an annual prize for the best Master’s Thesis in migration law. Maarten’s thesis, which was supervised by Thomas …
Anna Cleuters, former student of the IMRL Master program, has won the Migration Law Case Note Competition 2019, organized by the Dutch Migration Law Foundation (Stichting Migratierecht Nederland). Anna has …
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On 30 October, the ACMRL hosted a research seminar on age assessment technologies in asylum procedures. In the seminar, Evelien Brouwer, senior researcher at the section, and Romain Lanneau, former …
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Martijn Stronks has been selected as one of the new members of the Amsterdam Young Academy. The Academy is an independent platform where talented young scientists from different disciplines meet …
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On 23 September 2019, the ACMRL section organized a seminar entitled “Gender, Sexuality and the Refugee Definition”. The seminar was inspired by the PhD Thesis Defense of Younous Arbaoui, with …
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The Sarah van Walsum lecture of this year was delivered by professor Betty de Hart on Friday 20 September 2019, 15:45. The lecture, which is titled ‘Some cursory remarks on …
Last Friday, new students of the Master’s Program International Migration and Refugee Law joined for an introduction day. After an interesting tour in the city centre of Amsterdam on coffee …