Representing four years of research and gathering 31 leading experts, this landmark publication provides the first comprehensive legal commentary on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), the first intergovernmental agreement adopted by the United Nations to address all dimensions of international migration.
Bridging legal scholarship, critical perspectives, and real-world practice, this commentary offers a forward-looking assessment of the GCM’s role in shaping the future of global migration governance.
Panel Discussion
Moderator
Vincent Chetail, Professor and Director, Global Migration Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute
Panel Discussants
Satvinder S Juss, Professor, King’s College London
François Crépeau, Professor Emeritus, McGill University & Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
Idil Atak, Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Elspeth Guild, Emerita Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Violeta Moreno-Lax, Professor and Director, Hertie School’s Centre for Human Rights
Boldizsar Nagy, Professor Emeritus, Central European University, Vienna
Bernard Ryan, Professor, University of Leicester
Marion Panizzon, Senior research fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern
Stephanie Berry, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Sussex
Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle, PhD candidate, Geneva Graduate Institute & Global Migration Centre
Izabella Majcher, Human Rights Consultant & Senior Fellow, Global Migration Centre
Book Launch
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A Commentary was published on 25 August 2026 by Oxford University Press.
Registration
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Research Project
This publication has been carried out within a broader research project co-supervised by Prof. Vincent Chetail (Geneva Graduate Institute's Global Migration Centre) and Prof. Sandra Lavenex (UNIGE Department of Political Science and International Relations) on: The Impact of Crises on the Global Governance of Migration: Boost or Blow?
The project is part of NCCR On the Move and is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Organised by
This event is organised by the Geneva Graduate Institute's Global Migration Centre
