Special Issue - Border Justice: Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations

One of the cross-cutting themes of the RefMig research is accountability in migration and refugee governance. A workshop held in November 2018 brought together leading legal scholars to examine accountability gaps, where those who violate human rights escape accountability. In particular, it provided the opportunity to reflect on the growing operational role of EU agencies, IOM, and other non-state actors in this context. Professor Cathryn Costello together with Professor Itamar Mann co-edited a special issue of the German Law Journal on this topic, published April 2020 in an open access format. All the papers are available here and view the related video shorts.

  • Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations

Cathryn Costello and Itamar Mann, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp311-334

  • A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control

Nikolas Faith Tan and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen,April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp335-354

  • Hard Protection through Soft Courts? Non-Refoulement before the United Nations Treaty Bodies

Basak Cali, Cathryn Costello and Stewart Cunningham,April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp355-384

  • The Architecture of Functional Jurisdiction:Unpacking Contactless Control-On Public Powers, S.S and Others v. Italy, and the “Operational Model”

Violeta Moreno-Lax, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp385-416

  • The European Convention of Human Rights and Migration at Sea: Reading the “Jurisdictional Threshold” of the Convention Under the Law of the Sea Paradigm

Efthymios Papastavridis, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.417-435

  • The Right to Life Under the EU Charter and Cooperation with Third States to Combat Human Smuggling

Vladislava Stoyanova, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.436-458

  • Human Rights Due Diligence Policies Applied to Extraterritorial Cooperation to Prevent “Irregular” Migration: European Union and United Kingdom Support to Libya

Carla Ferstmann, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.459-486

  • Beyond the Governance Gap: Accountability in Privatized Migration Control

Daria Davitti, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.487-505

  • Holding the European Asylum Support Office Accountable for its role in Asylum Decision-Making: Mission Impossible?

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.506-531

  • The Action for Damages as a Fundamental Rights Remedy:Holding Frontex Liable

Melanie Fink, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.532-548

  • Challenges to Australia’s Offshore Detention Regime and the Limits of Strategic Tort Litigation

Gabrielle Holly, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.549-570

  • International Criminal Law and the Violence against Migrants

Ioannis Kalpouzos, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.571-597

  • The Right to Perform Rescue at Sea: Jurisprudence and Drowning

Itamar Mann, April 2020, Volume 21, Special Issue 3 (Border Justice:Migration and Accountability for Human Rights Violations) German Law Journal, pp.598-619