Presentation

In relation to the human rights of migrants, governments are usually thought of as duty-bearers. Yet in addition to being the authors of the human rights treaties that establish these obligations, governments also play an important role in shaping their interpretation, both in courtrooms, and beyond.

In her talk, Prof. Janna Wessels will discuss insights from her research on reverse strategic litigation by governments (NWO Veni 2022–2026 and DFG Research Group MeDiMi 2022–2026) and how these insights led to her new research project on doctrinal entrepreneurship.

Speaker

Janna Wessels is Associate Professor of Migration Law at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she leads the Migration Law research programme and directs the Bachelor's programme "Law in Society." 

Her research examines the relationship between human rights and migration law and policy, combining legal doctrine, empirical research, and critical theory, with recent work focusing on how states invoke human rights law to advance migration control. She is the author of The Concealment Controversy: Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2021, paperback 2023) and co-author of Human Rights Challenges to European Migration Policy: The REMAP Study (Hart/Nomos, 2022).

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Organised by the Geneva Graduate Institute's Global Migration Centre.