Cathryn Costello contributes to the immigration detention provision of the Global Compact for Migration

Cathryn Costello, Professor of Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights, contributed to a major conference on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Geneva organised by Professor Vincent Chetail (Graduate Institute).  The event on 24 and 25 November brought together leading legal scholars to examine the instrument in context.  Together with Dr Yulia Ioffe (UCL), Costello presented on the Compact’s provision on immigration detention (Objective 13), which commits states and the international community to ‘Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives.’ 

The conference contributions will be published by Oxford University Press as a legal commentary of the Global Compact in its series Oxford Commentaries on International Law.