MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
Research center hosted by the University of Copenhagen's Law Faculty and funded by the Danish National Research Foundation mobilitylaw.ku.dk
- 📣💰New project alert: We're excited to join NordAId! 16M NOK from #NordForsk will fund research on trustworthy AI in public decision-making, focusing on asylum decisions. 🤝Partners: @uio.no, @uu.se, @ucph.bsky.social & Vilnius University www.nordforsk.org/projects/nor...
- 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
- “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
- 🎤"We steer innovation through the law – we don't stop it." @daniel-solove.bsky.social
- ⚡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
- ⏰🍽️ 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
- 🗓️ 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...
- 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...
- ⚡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
- Such a pleasure hosting and listening to Ettore Recchi’s groundbreaking research on human mobility. @mobileucph.bsky.social
- 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
- 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...
- 🚨 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!
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- 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!
- 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 ⬇️
- Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- 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...
- 🎓 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... Please share!
- 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.
- 🎉 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- ⏰ 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...
- 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!
- "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 ⬇️
- A bit more on our new @villumfonden.bsky.social project on asylum law and Explainable AI in the @ucph.bsky.social magazine (in Danish) uniavisen.dk/kunstig-inte...
- 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
- 🚨 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...
- 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!
- How does public transport shape mobility and marginalisation? On 1 May, visiting students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute will share their research on how policy is limiting transit access for Copenhagen’s newcomer communities. Drop by! More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
- 🚢 New PhD opportunity 🚢 Are you (or someone you know) our next PhD scholar in Maritime Law and Human Mobility? 📍 @ucph.bsky.social, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen 🗓️ Start: October 2025 ⏳ Apply by: 26 May 2025 Learn more and apply here: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... #phdjobs
- 🚨 Launch alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to unveil our legal infrastructures special issue this Friday! Pop by (IRL or online) to hear more... 📆 Fri 25 April, 14:15 🏓 MOBILE HQ or Zoom 🥂 Reception to follow More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
- 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
- At MOBILE we are now advertising for a new postdoc position in Nordic asylum law and credibility. The position is part of a new 5-year interdisciplinary project on Explainable AI and Credibility in Asylum Law. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Application deadline April 23, 2025
- Last, but not least, Mariana Valverde - a pioneering scholar on law and infrastructure, specifically in relation to construction, reflects on the need for a more bottom-up and nuanced understanding of infrastructure for both lawyers and social scientists: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- With Itamar Mann I explore how maritime legal infrastructures enabled the cruise ship to become the fastest growing form of international tourism, but also a deeply exploitative and environmentally harmful compressed global value chain: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- How to study phenomena that cut across multiple, different legal regimes? We have grappled with this issue since starting the MOBILE Center. Together w/ a stellar group we have explored one avenue: Legal infrastructures. Today our SI is out in German Law Jour.: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Major publication out from the MOBILE crew + associates: A special issue on 'legal infrastructures' in German Law Journal: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- How to study phenomena that cut across multiple, different legal regimes? We have grappled with this issue since starting the MOBILE Center. Together w/ a stellar group we have explored one avenue: Legal infrastructures. Today our SI is out in German Law Jour.: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🔥Full volume out now: 'What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda' - our special issue in J Refugee Studies (w/ the amazing @danghez.bsky.social and Helene Lambert) academic-oup-com.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/jrs/issue/37/4 @mobileucph.bsky.social
- For our Danish-speaking followers: @tgammeltoft.bsky.social has visited the @globalnytdk.bsky.social podcast Højtryk. He spoke about how the West is experiencing a lack of migrants in a wider range of work sectors in the aftermath of the Covid epidemic. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/54a1...
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- On the Borders of Deportability This afternoon Anouk Lamé defended her PhD theses with bravura at @ucph.bsky.social. She presented original research on how French administrative judges shapes the European deportation regime. Supervisor @tgammeltoft.bsky.social jura.ku.dk/pdf/arrangem... @dg.dk
- Anouk's thesis has been evaluated by a committee consisting of: Professor Henrik Palmer Olsen, University of Copenhagen Professor Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University Professor Virginie Guiraudon, Sciences Po It can be ordered from phd-forsvar@jur.ku.dk
- It's a very lucky Friday the 13th for us: Frédéric Mégret joins us at 15:00 CET tomorrow afternoon for a MOBILE Open Lab to explore states' obligations to their nationals abroad. If you are not in the area, you can sign up to receive a Zoom link here: buff.ly/4ivv7jr
- Thanks @aminamemon.bsky.social for joining our lecture series!
- Rich and thought-provoking lecture by @aminamemon.bsky.social on asylum procedures and credibility based on her cutting-edge research in the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law at @royalholloway.bsky.social thanks for informing our work at @mobileucph.bsky.social in this area!
- Join us at MOBILE or online when Prof. of Psychology Amina Memon (Royal Holloway University, London) visits our Open Lab to speak about 'Tackling on-going challenges in assessing credibility in asylum testimony'. December 5, 14:00-15:15 CET Sign up for zoom link: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
- Check out MOBILE's preprint working paper series, spanning: 'free movement', 'maritime law', 'border control', 'travel documents', 'highly-skilled migration', 'asylum', 'discrimination', 'gendered mobility dynamics' and more: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/working-pape... Continuously updated with new papers
- ⚖️ Mobility Law Open Lab 🔬 We look forward to untangling the concept of active refugee admission policies with Zvezda Vankova this week. 📅 Thursday, Nov 28, 14:00 CET - Online or UCPH, South Campus, room 6B.2.22 📍 Zoom: register here: buff.ly/3VbdKub Image: Russell Watkins/DFID
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- For an intro to MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @ucph.bsky.social, see: video.ku.dk/video/914537...
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- MOBILE permanent visiting professor on Palestinian displacement and the future of asylum
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