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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Research center hosted by the University of Copenhagen's Law Faculty and funded by the Danish National Research Foundation https://mobilitylaw.ku.dk/
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Please share: We made a tentative starter pack of refugee law, migration law and mobility law scholars - will update it continuously; please add newcomers and anyone we missed. go.bsky.app/BGkdP53 #lawsky #migrationstudies #refugeestudies
Refugee, Migration & Mobility Law Scholars
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What happens when you mix three @dg.dk Centres of Excellence, 20-sec slides & a stack of pizzas?

No punchline – you get A Slice of Your Research 🍕💡

Fast slides, fresh ideas, plenty of laughs, all served up in one inspiring evening! ✨ Thanks to our colleagues at sister centres PRIVACY & TRANSITION
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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“Regulation protects companies that innovate thoughtfully and responsibly by preventing companies that don't from having an unfair advantage." Daniel Solove, UCPH, 6 October 2025
October 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎤"We steer innovation through the law – we don't stop it." @daniel-solove.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
⏰🍽️ TODAY: Why not make your Monday lunch break a little more interesting?

Feed your brain this lunchtime with a feast of insight on privacy, AI, and the future of law with Daniel Solove 🧠

💡 Join the conversation online or in Copenhagen!
⚡Tech moves fast. Can the law really keep up?

Privacy law expert @daniel-solove.bsky.social has answers.

📅6 October, 13:00 CET – Book talk + live Q&A
📍 Online or in person

More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

✨Save your spot & join the conversation!

#PrivacyLaw #AIandLaw #FutureOfLaw
Book Launch and Q&A with Daniel Solove
Hear from the world’s leading expert on privacy law
mobilitylaw.ku.dk
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We’re excited to welcome our new visiting researcher, Keyvan Dorostkar (UNSW Sydney) 🎉

Tomorrow, 25Sept (14:00–15:15), Keyvan will host an Open Lab:
“Re-Conceptualising the Relationship Between Fairness and Efficiency in Asylum Procedures”

Join in person or online mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🗓️ Tomorrow, 2pm – Open Lab at MOBILE!

Visiting PhD scholar Keyvan Dorostkar (@kaldorcentre.bsky.social) will challenge the long-held idea that restrictive asylum procedures are needed to ensure efficiency.

Interested? Drop by! 👇
mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Keyvan Dorostkar
Re-Conceptualising the Relationship Between Fairness and Efficiency in Asylum Procedures
mobilitylaw.ku.dk
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
⚡Tech moves fast. Can the law really keep up?

Privacy law expert @daniel-solove.bsky.social has answers.

📅6 October, 13:00 CET – Book talk + live Q&A
📍 Online or in person

More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

✨Save your spot & join the conversation!

#PrivacyLaw #AIandLaw #FutureOfLaw
Book Launch and Q&A with Daniel Solove
Hear from the world’s leading expert on privacy law
mobilitylaw.ku.dk
September 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Such a pleasure hosting and listening to Ettore Recchi’s groundbreaking research on human mobility. @mobileucph.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
New publication! lnkd.in/denzpZTD
“Waves of Securitisation - The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, 1960–2022”, by Luuk van der Baaren (MOBILE/UCPH), Maria Gerdes (Goethe University) and Maarten Vink (EUI), is out now in the Statelessness and Citizenship Review
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Join us for a presentation by Prof. Ettore Recchi on The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility.

12 Sept, 14:00 at MOBILE or online

Prof. Recchi will share his research on the patterns and dynamics of transnational human mobility.

Event details: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Ettore Recchi
The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility (1995-2022): Continuity, Change, and Inequality
mobilitylaw.ku.dk
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨 News flash! We’re welcoming another MOBILE visitor today: Paula Nimbriotis Manzur (PhD researcher, Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid).

Her work explores free movement regimes in the Global South, especially within the Andean Communities.

She’ll be with us until Halloween! 🎃

Welcome, Paula!
September 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Excellent new article involving an experiment in credibility assessments in trans refugee adjudication from folks at @mobileucph.bsky.social

Great job ‪@astajarlner.bsky.social‬ ‬& Maya Ellen Hertz!

doi.org/10.3389/fhum...
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We're excited to welcome Dr Chiara Raucea (@tilburg-university.bsky.social) to the MOBILE Centre next week! 🎉

She’ll be with us through October, continuing her work on how legal status shapes access to rights – like how the right to private life may ground claims to naturalisation.

Stay tuned!
August 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Excited to share a new publication by our PhD fellow Leonora Staerfeldt in the special issue of @recieljournal.bsky.social!

It reveals how international law’s temporal blind spots enable illegal e-waste to flow from high- to low-income countries – often disguised as legitimate reuse.

Link below ⬇️
August 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
New article article by @astajarlner.bsky.social and @sarah-scott-ford.bsky.social in Verfassungsblug, where they examine the Danish Supreme Court´s judgement concerning the non-penalization of refugees.

Read it here: verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-a...
The End of an (Unlawful) Era
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July 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🎓 Scholarship Opportunity for Masters Students!
Interested in migration, mobility & data? Write your thesis with us!

🧠 Real asylum case data from Denmark
📄 Publish a working paper
🪙 Monthly stipend
📅 Apply by 14 July 2025

More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2024/sc...

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Call for applications: Scholarships for master students
MOBILE is now accepting project proposals from full time master students who would like to write their thesis in collaboration with the center and work with large datasets of asylum case files.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A huge thank you to the organisers and participants of the 2025 iCourts/MOBILE PhD Summer School 🧑‍⚖️✨

It’s been a fantastic week of invaluable methods training, insightful discussions and meaningful international connections.
June 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎉 Our own @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 John Jackson Prize! Huge congratulations! 🏆

His prizewinning article explores how legal academics shape international investment law through citation analysis and interviews with top arbitrators.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jiel...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We’re thrilled to share that our director
@tgammeltoft.bsky.social has been elected to the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

A well-deserved recognition of legal research that crosses borders and disciplines. 👏

More here: royalacademy.dk/author/thoma...
June 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How do states use human rights law to push their migration agendas?

This Thursday at 2pm, Dr Janna Wessels dives into this – and more – with her research on reverse strategic litigation.

Join us in-person or via Zoom – see you there! ⬇️

mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Janna Wessels
How states manipulate legal frameworks to serve their own migration policies
mobilitylaw.ku.dk
May 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
⏰ This Thursday at 2pm:

Visiting PhD researcher Tehseen Jäger presents his work on the complex ties between immigration policies and the challenges migrants face in Europe's labour market.

Don't miss out!
mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
May 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"AI could change the game in asylum law"

Learn more about our new project building transparent AI to detect bias and promote fairness in asylum case assessments ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇
Jessica Larsen and I are organizing a workshop in beautiful Copenhagen this coming Fall, come join us!

Special issue call for papers: Straits, Canals and Choke Points, September 15-16, 2025

mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2025/ca...

Thanks @mobileucph.bsky.social for hosting this project
April 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨
We now invite submissions for a special issue on credibility assessments in RSD. Contributors will meet for a workshop in Copenhagen, October 30-31, 2025.

Details below. Reach out to the organizers, ‪Asta Jarlner‬ & Maya Hertz, to hear more.

mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2025/sp...
Special issue call for papers: (Re-)constructing Credibility in Refugee Status Determination
MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen invites submissions for papers for a special issue on the role of credibility assessments in refugee status determin...
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May 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Two new guest researchers are joining us today!
👋 Tehseen Jäger (@sceus.bsky.social)
👋 Janna Wessels (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social)

They’re digging into migrant challenges in Europe's labour market and how states use human rights law to push migration control.

Big welcome!
May 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM