International Cooperations
International Cooperations:
- Cooperation with the University of Melbourne (Dr. Nikolas Feith Tan)
About the project: “External processing and safe third country arrangements: international legal standards, responsibility sharing and human rights”. The cooperation was funded as part of the Joint Partnership Funding 2024 and 2025.
More about the project.
- Bonavero Institute of Human Rights - Report 1/2025 "The Absolute Prohibition of Refoulement and Exceptional Circumstances"
The report analyses the legal issues arising in the context of pushbacks of asylum seekers at Europe's borders in situations where the entry of asylum seekers to European states may have been facilitated by third states. This, in political parlance, is characterized as ‘hybrid attacks’ or ‘instrumentalisation’ of migrants by third states. The report reproduces the Third Party Intervention (TPI) submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of C.O.C.G. and Others v Lithuania, currently pending before its Grand Chamber. The TPI was led by Professor Nora Markard (University of Münster) and co-authored by twenty-two legal academics. Further details available here.
Visiting scholars and international guests in 2026:
From February to July 2026, we welcome Ahmet Kaan Yılseli as a visiting researcher at the Chair of Law and Migration. Ahmet Kaan Yılseli is a PhD candidate in Law at the Social Science Institute at Istanbul University in Turkey. His doctoral research, 'Access to Court for Migrants under Turkish Law', analyses migrants' access to private and administrative courts within both national and international legal frameworks, and aims to contribute to the more effective realisation of this right in Turkey.
From 20 April to 24 May 2026, we are pleased to host Michael Guanyao Wang as a visiting researcher at the Chair of Law and Migration. Michael Guanyao Wang is a PhD candidate in the sociology of law at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from George Washington University and a Master’s degree in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His doctoral research examines how investment migration regimes, often referred to as “Golden Visas,” and the growing commodification of European citizenship are reshaping contemporary liberal social contracts. Adopting a comparative approach, his project focuses on Portugal and the United States and explores the global inequalities that shape who is able to move freely and who remains excluded from mobility regimes.
Dr. Catharina Ziebritzki will join and strengthen the Law and Migration Department at BIM from June to September 2026. She is a postdoctoral researcher in public law, with a focus on migration law, administrative law, and EU law. She is currently researching the transformations of European asylum law in the context of European dis/integration, societal changes and global interdependencies. During her stay at the BIM, she is working on a book project on the EU's judicial responsibility and on an article project on migration narratives.
Visiting scholars and international guests in 2025:
Visiting scholars and international guests in 2024:
Assistant Prof. Jonas Bornemann
Starting in December 2024, we welcomed Jonas Bornemann as a visiting scholar at the Chair of Law and Migration and the Law and Society Institute. Jonas Bornemann is an Assistant Professor of European Law at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on European constitutional and migration law.
Guest lecture by Prof. Cathryn Costello
On June 11, 2024, Prof. Cathryn Costello was a visiting lecturer at the Chair of Law and Migration and the Law and Society Institute.
The topic of her talk was: “Effective Judicial Protection of Migrants and Refugees? The role of Europe's supranational courts in protecting and generating rights”.