Professor Bridget Anderson (RefMig Ethics Advisor)
Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol
Bridget is the Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol and Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship. Her work explores the tension between labour market flexibilities and citizenship rights, and pioneered an understanding of the functions of immigration in key labour market sectors. Her interest in labour demand has meant an engagement with debates about trafficking and modern day slavery, which in turn led to an interest in state enforcement and deportation, and in the ways immigration controls increasingly impact on citizens as well as on migrants. Bridget has worked closely with migrants’ organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and international levels. Bridget is the author of Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed Books, 2000). She co-edited Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy with Martin Ruhs (Oxford University Press, 2010 and 2012) and The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation with Matthew Gibney and Emanuela Paoletti (Springer, 2013). Bridget is acting as ethics advisor to the RefMig project.
Emily Arnold-Fernandez
Executive Director, Asylum Access
Emily Arnold-Fernández, the founder and executive director of Asylum Access, is a social entrepreneur and human rights pioneer.
A lawyer who has advocated nationally and internationally for the human rights of women, children, and other vulnerable individuals, Emily first became involved in refugee rights in 2002, when she represented refugees in United Nations proceedings in Cairo, Egypt. Recognizing that refugees throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America – some of whom flee with nothing more than the clothes on their backs – were almost always unequipped to go into a legal proceeding in a foreign country, alone, and explain why they should not be deported, Emily founded Asylum Access to advocate on behalf of refugees seeking to assert their rights.
Emily is particularly passionate about Asylum Access, however, because it has the power to transform refugee rights from paper promises to on-the-ground reality. “For half a century, international law has given refugees the rights to live safely, seek employment, send children to school and rebuild their lives. But those rights are meaningless unless they are respected on the ground,” she says. “Asylum Access provides a rare opportunity to fill a gaping hole in our human rights system – by making refugee rights a reality for real people
Professor Basak Cali
Professor of International Law, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany & Director, Center for Global Public Law, Koç University Law School, Istanbul, Turkey
Başak’s research interests are international law, human rights law, and the prospects of global public law in a multi-level legal order. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press United Nations Human Rights Case-Law Reports, a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex and a Senior Research Fellow at the Pluricourts Centre at the University of Oslo. She has been a Council of Europe expert on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) since 2002. She has trained members of the judiciary and acted as a litigation advisor and trainer to non-governmental organisations and lawyers on European and comparative human rights law. She is part of a research collaboration, with Cathyrn Costello, looking at ‘ Hard Refugee Protection through Soft Enforcement.’ This work examines the various United Nations’ human rights treaty bodies focusing on refugee rights, in particular as ‘soft enforcers’ of the norm of non-refoulement.
Dr Tamirace Fakhoury
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Lebanese American University
Tamirace is an associate professor of political science and international affairs in the Department of Social Sciences at the Lebanese American University (LAU), and the director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution (ISJCR). In Autumn 2018 and summer 2019, she is a visiting fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen where she will carry out a project on the European Union’s role in the polycentric governance of displacement.
Her core research and publication areas are: power sharing in divided societies, the multi-level governance of refugee politics in the Middle East, the European Union’s external migration policy, and the role of migrant communities in democratization.
She has previously held a Jean Monnet postdoctoral fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. In 2014, she was elected as member of the first Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). From 2014 until 2016, she was a principal co-investigator on the project funded by WOTRO on Syrian refugees’ justice concerns and access to formal and informal justice in Lebanon.
Professor Elspeth Guild
Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Elspeth Guild is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary, University of London as well as at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a partner at the London law firm, Kingsley Napley She is also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. Her interests and expertise lies primarily in the area of EU law, in particular EU Justice and Home Affairs (including immigration, asylum, border controls, criminal law and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters). She also researches EU privacy and data protection law and the nexus with human rights. She is also co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law. She is co-editor of the book series Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe published by Martinus Nijhoff.
Professor Simon Halliday
Professor of Socio-Legal Sudies, University of York
Simon Halliday is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of York. His research focuses on administrative justice (particularly front-line decision-making about legal entitlements) and legal consciousness (or 'law in everyday life’). He is currently studying legal consciousness in urban Mozambique in the context of climate change adaptation. He has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Oxford, and New South Wales.
Professor Rebecca Hamlin
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst College
Rebecca’s research is focused on law and immigration politics, and she has a particular interest in migrant categorization and the concept of a refugee. Her published work has examined how the United States and other liberal democracies use administrative agencies and courts to adjudicate migration and citizenship questions, and the political responses to judicial involvement in migration matters. Rebecca has published articles on the history of American asylum policy, comparative Refugee Status Determination systems, the politics of migration and the media in the UK, and the blending of international criminal law and immigration law to remove suspected war criminals and human rights violators. Rebecca’s first book, Let me be a Refugee was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Her second book, Crossing: The Migrant/Refugee Binary and State Responses to Asylum Seekers will be published with Stanford University Press in 2020.
Dr Meltem Ineli-Ciger
Assistant Professor International Law Department Suleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Law
Meltem Ineli-Ciger is an Assistant Professor at the Suleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Law in Turkey. Meltem is the author of Temporary Protection in Law and Practice (Brill/ Nijhoff 2018) and co-editor of Seeking Asylum in the European Union (Brill/Nijhoff 2015). She acted as a legal expert in the Study on the Temporary Protection Directive commissioned by the EU Commission and is currently acting as the legal expert in the 2018 EMN Study on Beneficiaries of international protection travelling to their country of origin. She also has acted as a short-term legal expert in studies on asylum appeals, refugee status determination and exclusion clauses commissioned by the Turkish Directorate General of Migration Management. She is a research affiliate of Refugee Law Initiative and a member of Odysseus Network and Migration and International Law in Africa, the Middle East & Turkey (MILAMET) Research Network. Her current research interests include protection of persons fleeing armed conflict in EU law and international law, Turkish asylum law, Syrians in Turkey, the EU-Turkey cooperation in the area of migration and the Global compact on refugees.
Professor Maja Janmyr
Professor in International Migration Law, Norwegian Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Maja’s current research focuses on refugee rights in the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on the situation of Syrian and Sudanese refugees and migrants in Lebanon. She is also studying Nubian rights mobilization in Egypt.
Her previous research concerns readmission agreements and forced return in the broader context of EU migration policies. Her PhD research, conducted at the University of Bergen, focused on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) human rights responsibilities in refugee camps. She is author of the book Protecting Civilians in Refugee Camps: Unwilling and Unable States, UNHCR and International Responsibility (2014). She is PI of the four-year (2019-2023) research project "Refugees and the Arab Middle East: Protection in States Not Party to the Refugee Convention (REF-ARAB)", funded by the Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO-program.
Dr Fatima Khan
Associate Professor and Director of the Refugee Rights Unit, University of Cape Town
Fatima is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Refugee Rights Unit; a Research Unit incorporating a legal practice registered with the Cape Law Society. The Refugee Rights Unit is funded by the United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and operates as an implementing partner for the UNHCR in South Africa. She is editor and co-author of Refugee Law in South Africa (2014) and Immigration Law in South Africa (2018) and is member of the Editorial Board of The Refugee Law Reader: Cases, Documents and Materials (7th edition), a comprehensive on-line model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law.
Professor Jonathan Klaaren
Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
Jonathan is based at the Law School and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). He teaches, researches, and writes in the areas of human rights, competition law, and socio-legal studies. His most recent book is From Prohibited Immigrants to Citizens: The Origins of Citizenship and Nationality in South Africa (2017). In 2016, he was appointed as an Acting Judge on the High Court of South Africa (South Gauteng). His current research interests include human rights law, access to justice, law and migration. His early research also encompassed the field of migration, where he researched the current status and interaction of laws of registration, identity, citizenship and migration throughout Southern Africa and he has published on human rights, refugee law and migration in South Africa.
Professor Katerina Linos
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Katerina's research and teaching interests include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law and migration law. To address questions in these fields, her work combines legal analysis with empirical methods. Her research examines why law reforms and policy innovations spread around the world in waves. Her book The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family, and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries (Oxford University Press, 2013), explains the politics of legal transplantation. The law and politics of the European Union are another key area of Katerina's research. Despite being the most integrated international legal order we know, the European Union has stumbled in its efforts to fully harmonize the laws of its member states. Her research has found that member states delay the implementation of EU directives not out of strategic motivations, but mostly due to limitations in state capabilities. To further explore the gap between widely diffused, internationally accepted norms and their uneven implementation on the ground, Katerina's recent work focuses on human rights. With the support of the Hellman Family Fund, she has investigated empirically how over 100 countries adopted National Human Rights Institutions, and what makes some of these agencies particularly effective. In 2017, Katerina was awarded a Carnegie fellowship to study the European refugee crisis. She is investigating how communication barriers frustrate fundamental rights, and exploring the potential of new technologies to facilitate refugee and migrant integration.
Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research Professor at Temple University
Jaya is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the I. Herman Stern Research Professor at Temple University, Beasley School of Law, where she teaches Refugee Law and Policy. She specializes in immigration law, international law, procedure and process. Her research areas include asylum and refugee law under the Trump administration, global migration law, and empirical assessment of asylum adjudication. She is the co-author, along with Philip G. Schrag and Andrew I. Schoenholtz, of Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals for Reform (2009), an empirical study of the US asylum system, and Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security (2014), a quantitative and qualitative study of the first level of the asylum process in the United States. Jaya also writes on global migration law, a new field of study that she is developing along with colleagues in law and other disciplines. Her work in the area focuses on forced migration as well as the intersection of immigration and international human rights law. Her most recent works explore the role of international migration law in constructing migration emergencies and critique human rights law as insufficiently attentive to the interests of undocumented migrants. She has also written on the situation of forced migrants under international criminal law and international humanitarian law. Jaya is a Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative of the School for Advanced Studies at the University of London and was a founding co-chair of the Migration Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law.
Professor Lisa Vanhala
Professor of Political Science, University College London
Lisa is a Professor of Political Science. She holds a DPhil and MPhil in Politics from University of Oxford. She spent her undergraduate years at McGill University and Sciences Po Paris. Lisa's current research explores the governance on climate change loss and damage, including climate-related migration. Her project is funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. Lisa also studies the use of law by civil society organisations as a driver of social change and has published a number of articles and a prize-winning monograph with Cambridge University Press.
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