FRC Affiliated Member, Dr. Jozefien Van Caeneghem Awarded Fulbright Scholarship in Harvard
FRC affiliated member Dr. Jozefien Van Caeneghem has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct post-doctoral research at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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New Book: Convergences and Divergences between International Human Rights, International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law (Intersentia, June 2018)
FRC has published a new volume Convergences and Divergences Between International Human Rights, International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law (Intersentia, June 2018). The volume has been edited by FRC Directors Prof. Paul de Hert, Prof.
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FRC Member, Sibel Top, Awarded Fellowship of the Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO)
FRC member Sibel Top has been awarded a Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO) PhD fellowship for four years, starting 1 October 2018. Her research focuses on the development of political crimes in Europe.
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New Blog Post: Irregular migration after the Aquarius Incident: Moving Beyond the Law. A Reflection on Fink and Gombeer
FRC member, Amy Weatherburn and Dariusz Kloza (LSTS, VUB) have published a blog on EJIL: Talk!. Irregular migration after the Aquarius incident: moving beyond the law.
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FRC Member Contributes to IES Summer School on European Policy Making
On 3 July, Sibel Top gave a class on "Justice and Home Affairs & Brexit" at the Summer School of the Institute of European Studies on European policy-making (2-13 July).
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New Book: Irregular Migration as a Challenge for Democracy (Intersentia, Cambridge: 2018)
Irregular migration as a Challenge for Democracy is the fifth volume in the Intersentia European Integration and Democracy Series. Prof.
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The Kosovo Specialist Chambers: Comparative Legal Perspectives
As the prospect of indictments issued by the Special Prosecutor’s Office looms large, the time is ripe to begin scrutinizing the legal framework under which the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) will be operating. To this end, this Supranational Criminal Law Series lecture, co-organized by the I...
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DESIRE Validation Workshop in Zagreb
The Desire Project seeks to better understand the impact of different models of sex work on the prevalence of trafficking in human beings. To that purpose, we have selected four countries on basis of their very different approach towards sex work in which we are now doing fieldwork.
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FRC Member Presents at European Conference on Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
From 24-25 May 2018, FRC Member, Sibel Top will be attending and presenting at the European Conference on Comparative Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 'EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS IMPACT ON NATIONAL LEGAL ORDERS.' held in Warsaw, Poland.
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FRC Member Presents at International Conference "EU at the Crossroads of Migration"
On 7 May, FRC Member Amy Weatherburn, presented her paper on "The increased vulnerability of migrants to labour exploitation in Europe: using positive obligations to maintain a firewall between migration law and criminal law".
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FRC Member to Chair 8th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
FRC Member, Amy Weatherburn has been invited to chair the upcoming symposium entitled ‘8th Annual International Symposium on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling’ taking place in Brussels on the 17 April 2018. The symposium will reflect upon the recent European Commiss...
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New FRA Report: Under Watchful Eyes – Biometrics, EU IT-Systems and Fundamental Rights
A new FRA report on the fundamental rights implications of the collection, storage and use of biometric data in EU IT systems in the area of asylum and migration has now been published. Under watchful eyes – biometrics, EU IT-systems and fundamental rights identifies a number of fundamenta...
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