Dr. Rebecca Ananian-Welsh
is a Senior Lecturer at The School of Law, The University of Queensland. Her research focuses primarily on judges and courts, as well as concerning human rights and national security law and policy. Dr. Ananian-Welsh has co-edited two books as well as publishing book chapters, articles in leading journals and has spoken widely at Australian and international events on these topics. Prior to joining The School of Law, Dr. Ananian-Welsh was an academic member of the Laureate Fellowship Project ‘Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge’.
Dr. Peter Billings
is a Professor at The School of Law, The University of Queensland. His research interests are in administrative law, immigration and refugee law, human rights law and crimmigration. He has published over thirty peer reviewed journal articles, and book chapters in edited collections, in Australia, the US, and Europe. Prior to working in Australia, he lectured Public Law and Refugee Law, respectively, in the United Kingdom from 1995–2007.
Dr. John R. Campbell
is a Emeritus Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law. He currently teaches anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and has conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Tanzania and the UK and has spent 10 years as a development consultant for international development agencies (evaluating or working on projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Botswana). He has written about development, refugees and refugee and criminal law. John’s most recent publications include: Nationalism, Law and Statelessness. Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa (Routledge, 2014), Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom’s Asylum System (Routledge, 2017) In 2016–2017 he conducted fieldwork in London’s magistrates’ courts and will soon be published as Entanglements of Life with the Law: Precarity and Justice in London’s Magistrates’ Courts by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dr. Nula Frei
is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of European Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on the protection of victims of human trafficking in asylum law. Nula has also worked at the Centre for Migration Law of the University of Bern, the Swiss Centre for Expertise in Human Rights and the UNHCR Office for Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
has worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich since November 2017. Before that he worked as head of the protection department at the Swiss Refugee Council (2014–2017) and as a lawyer for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (2004–2014). Dr. Hruschka studied law, history and philosophy in Würzburg, Poitiers and Paris. In addition to his work at the Max-Planck-Institute he is teaching European Law and European Asylum Law as well as Human Rights Law mainly at the Universities of Bielefeld, Munich, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Fribourg. He is a part of the pool of experts of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and was appointed as a member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Migration in December 2015. He has written (mostly in German) articles on the Swiss and the European Asylum system with a focus on the Dublin system.
The most recent articles in English are: “Access to Asylum Procedures for Victims of Trafficking under a Human Rights-based Approach,” in: Maria O’Sullivan/Dallal Stevens, editors, States, the Law and Access to Refugee Protection: Fortresses and Fairness. Hart Publishing, 2017, “Toward better Integration of People in Need of Protection,” in: National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) (ed.), From Temporary to Durable Stay: Integration in the Field of Asylum, Highlights #2, 2017, pp. 41–45 and “Enhancing Efficiency and Fairness? The Commission Proposal for a Dublin IV Regulation,” in: ERA Forum, Vol. 17, 2017, pp. 521–534. He has also commented alongside with Francesco Maiani on the Dublin III Regulation in: Kay Hailbronner/Daniel Thym, EU Immigration and Asylum Law. A Commentary, 2nd edition, C.H. Beck, 2016.
Julia Kienast
in 2014, Mag.a Julia Kienast graduated from the University of Vienna with a general law degree and a specialization in Criminal Law and Criminology as well as European Human Rights. After volunteering in the City of Huaraz, Peru and working at the Viennese Criminal Court, she returned to the University of Vienna in 2015, where she is working as a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. Ms. Kienast has published in the area of migration, asylum and human trafficking and edited two handbooks on pre-trial detention standards for juveniles and the radicalization of juveniles in detention. In the course of her Ph.D. studies, Ms. Kienast is researching sustainable and adequate instruments for the management of mass migration in Austria and Europe. Her work has been recognized through several grants and scholarships, most recently by the Fulbright Program. Ms. Kienast is, amongst others, an active member of the German Netzwerk Migrationsrecht,
Barbara Kőhalmi
is a practicing human rights lawyer. She obtained an LL.M. in human rights with special focus on the European framework of human rights protection. Her main field of expertise and interest is migration and its human rights aspects. She has a good knowledge of international and the Hungarian legal framework of migration gained through working in the Hungarian central public administration for six years. Now she does research on the nexus between migration and statelessness.
Selina March
holds an MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies from the University of London, and a BA (Honours) Development Studies and International Relations from the University of Westminster. She has a keen interest in the way language and communication impact the way we view the world, which has driven her previous work on the impact of charity marketing methods and social media on global stratification. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, with recent work drawing on policy analysis, critical legal studies, refugee studies, criminology, and sociology. Her research interests within and beyond the study of forced migration include tools and impacts of political discourse, critical race theory and the sociology of law, and the impact of criminalisation and securitisation on targeted populations.
Dr. Christopher McDowell
is a political anthropologist and Reader in International Politics at City, University of London. He conducts research on forced migration and involuntary resettlement in the context of conflict and violence, development interventions and environmental change with a geographical focus on South Asia and East and Central Africa. Christopher is an international resettlement specialist advising international agencies including the World Bank and UNHCR.
Anita Nagy-Nádasdi
is a lawyer who worked for eight years in various governmental and non-governmental organisations that helped the integration of refugees in Hungary. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest. Her main research focus is to connect international refugee law, children’s rights, and humanitarian law in order to highlight national obligations for protecting children involved in armed conflict. She has also participated in a migration
Dr. Joseph Rikhof
is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Common Law at the University of Ottawa where he teaches the course on International Criminal Law. His expertise lies with the law related to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially, as practised at the domestic level and in the context of immigration and refugee law. He has lectured on the same topics on all continents. He has also published over 50 articles as well as several books: The Criminal Refugee: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers with a Criminal Background in International and Domestic Law (2012); as co-author with Terje Einarsen, A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes, (2018) and as co-author with Robert Currie, International and Transnational Criminal Law, Third Edition (2020).
Dr. James C. Simeon
is the Head of McLaughlin College and an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a Member-at-Large of the Executive of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) and a past President of CARFMS. He also serves as the Coordinator of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges’ (IARMJ) Inter-Conference Working Party Process. His primary areas of research are international refugee law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and public policy and public administration. He has published widely in these areas of research and he has organized and led many highly successful academic and professional conferences, symposia and workshops. Before joining the faculty at York University he served as the IARMJ’s first Executive Director and prior to that he was a Member and Coordinating Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). He has also worked as a Special Assistant on Parliament Hill and as a Researcher and Policy Analyst in the Communications Division of the former Ministry of Transportation and Communications in the Ontario Public Service.
Dr. Elies van Sliedregt
is currently the Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Justice, School of Law, University of Leeds. From 2011–2015 she was the Professor of Criminal Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Dean of the Faculty of Law. She has also taught at the Universities in Leiden and Utrecht. She has held
Mark Symes
is a Barrister who practices out of the Garden Court Chambers in London, United Kingdom. He provides advice and representation in all areas of immigration, asylum, and human rights law, including European Union free movement law. He has represented clients in every court from the Tribunal to the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. Mark sits as a judge of the Upper Tribunal and First-tier Tribunal which gives him great insight into the way a case should be presented. He has particular expertise in higher appeals having spent many years specializing in test-case litigation both with the Refugee Legal Centre and since arriving in private practice; he is very well known to the Senior Immigration Judiciary at Field House - see for example the Foreword to his new book with Peter Jorro Immigration Appeals and Remedies Handbook (“invaluable … to the armoury of all … a compulsory addition to the library of every immigration judge and practitioner”: President of the Upper Tribunal Mr Justice McCloskey).
Patricia Tuitt
is a legal academic and author of numerous publications in the field of refugee law, including the monograph, False Images: Law’s Construction of the Refugee (1996) and the article “Transitions: Refugees and Natives” (2013). Formerly Professor and Dean of the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London (2009–2017), she now directs an online academic resource in her name (patriciatuitt, com). Recent open access publications include: “The UK’s General Strike: Brexit and Critiques of Violence” (2017) and “Academic Judgement and the Force of Law” (2018).