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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 mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Are lawyers more like engineers than litigators? Come join the seminar on "Law as Engineering" where David Howarth, Professor of Law and Public Policy at Cambridge, will discuss why lawyers should be seen as designers of social arrangements. 📅 8.9.26, 11:00–12:00 📍 6B-2-22, UCPH South Campus
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you’re in Copenhagen 9 June and interested in migration, West Africa and infrastructure don’t miss our upcoming seminar w/ @diis.dk and @naujakleist.bsky.social @mobileucph.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social www.diis.dk/en/event/mig...
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Migration and mobility infrastructures in West Africa – portraits and practices
At this seminar, researchers share their insights on West African migration to illuminate the human stories, hopes and infrastructures that underpin mobilities, going beyond familiar media narratives
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social · 09/05/2026
Interessant afsnit af "Højtryk" fra @globalnyt.dk med Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (@tgammeltoft.bsky.social). Tre grundtemaer: ▪️Arbejdsmigration spiller en stor rolle for #dkøko vækst ▪️🇩🇰 er økonomisk udfordret pga. demografien, lokalt og globalt ▪️Reglerne hives og rives i. Lyt: pca.st/1iss0tlm 1/n
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Udlændingepolitik handler om at åbne og lukke på samme tid – med Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
En stram udlændingepolitik skal afskrække uinviterede mennesker fra at komme til Danmark og måske nyde godt af vores velfærdsstat. Men samtidigt er velfærdssamfundet afhængig af en vis immigration.…
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📣💰 New project alert: Gender gaps in EU Free Movement Law Independent Research Fund Denmark has awarded over 16 million DKK to MOBILE Associate Professor Urška Šadl’s research project on gender inequality in EU free movement law. ⬇️Learn more: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/mobile-...
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MOBILE Associate Professor Urška Šadl awarded funding for eFree project
Associate Professor at MOBILE, Urška Šadl, has been awarded funding by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨This Thurs! ❓How do free movement regimes actually shape international mobility? Join us for a discussion of new joint research by @tobigrohmann.bsky.social (@mpc-eui.bsky.social, @eui-eu.bsky.social) 📅 16 April 🕑 14:00 CET 📍 Copenhagen or Zoom ⬇️ Learn more mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Tobias Grohmann
The Effect of Free Movement on International Migration and Mobilities in South America
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
STUDENT JOBS: Calling students in Copenhagen! 🔍 3–4 talented and committed student assistants 🕰️ 10-15 hours per week 🟢 Start date: 1 April or 1 June 📅 Deadline: 12 March (interviews held the following week) Interested? 👉 jobportal.ku.dk/administrati... #StudentJobs #StudentAssistant #Hiring
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Studerende til Grundforskningscenteret MOBILE ved Det Juridiske Fakultet
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🎉Thrilled that Prof Mary Setrana (University of Ghana) is now a Permanent Visiting Professor at MOBILE! Her work bridges migration research and policy across Africa and beyond. (You may also recognise her from our recent workshop.) Welcome, Mary! 🌍 mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2026/ne...
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New Permanent Visiting Professor - Mary Boatemaa Setrana
Mary Boatemaa Setrana joins MOBILE as Permanent Visiting Professor.
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
💼 WE'RE HIRING: Postdoc in European Mobility Law 💡 Law + politics | EU migration | Mixed-methods 🗓 Deadline: 13 April 📍Full time, 24 months, starting 1 Sept 2026 🏛 UCPH Faculty of Law @ucph.bsky.social 🔗Apply here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs
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Postdoctoral position in European Mobility Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in European mobility law from 1 September 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is a fixed
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📣 Law PhD students! Does your research focus on international courts and/or global mobility law? Want to spend an immersive week learning with like-minded peers from around the world? 🧑‍⚖️ Apply for the iCourts/MOBILE Summer School! 🗓 Deadline: 1 March mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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MOBILE / iCourts PhD Summer School 2026
Get your application in by 1 March 2026
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Wonderful to be in Ghana celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Centre for Migration Studies (UG) 🎉 + our three-day workshop on what free movement really looks like in West Africa 🌍 Read more 👇 mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2026/wo...
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Workshop on free movement in West Africa brings scholars to Accra
MOBILE and the Centre for Migration Studies convene international workshop
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Prof Dr Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche @mlbg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
reminder [seminar] #ProjetMoebius year 2025-2026 starring Vincent Chetail, Antoine Pécoud, Elspeth Guild, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, François Crépeau, Sylvie Saroléa, Baptiste Jouzier, Ségolène Barbou des Places @icmigrations.bsky.social @ediec-4185.bsky.social
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
⏰ This Friday Tune in to our Centre Director, @tgammeltoft.bsky.social, speaking at the next MOEBIUS seminar on Schengen as legal infrastructure. ⬇️ Free registration below
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Climate change is transforming mobility worldwide 🌍 We’re excited to welcome Marianna Hu (@eui-law.bsky.social), a specialist in climate-related mobility, who’ll be joining us from February to April to share insights, research, and ideas 💡
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Geek alert!👨‍🎓what role does credibility assessment play in asylum determination and what does research tell us about how it should - or shouldn't(!) - be done? check out our systematic lit. review, featured in JEMS new PA forum series: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @mobileucph.bsky.social
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Credibility as a fuzzy concept in refugee law: a systematic literature review
Assessment of a claimant’s credibility is decisive for the outcome in most asylum cases. Yet, there are no binding international rules on how such procedures should be undertaken, nor is there cons...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📣💰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...
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NordAId: Trustworthy AI in Public Decision Making
The goal of NordAId is to develop an interdisciplinary meta-framework for trustworthy AI in public decision-making in the Nordic-Baltic context.
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“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
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🎤"We steer innovation through the law – we don't stop it." @daniel-solove.bsky.social
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
⏰🍽️ 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!
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🗓️ 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...
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MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Keyvan Dorostkar
Re-Conceptualising the Relationship Between Fairness and Efficiency in Asylum Procedures
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
⚡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
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Book Launch and Q&A with Daniel Solove
Hear from the world’s leading expert on privacy law
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Such a pleasure hosting and listening to Ettore Recchi’s groundbreaking research on human mobility. @mobileucph.bsky.social
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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...
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MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Ettore Recchi
The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility (1995-2022): Continuity, Change, and Inequality
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨 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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Sean Rehaag @seanrehaag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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...
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Title: Trans "enough" for protection? Experimenting with credibility in refugee status determination
Authors: Maya Ellen Hertz & Asta Sofie Stage Jarlner
Abstract: Accessible version available open-access via link
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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!
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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 ⬇️
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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...
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The End of an (Unlawful) Era
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🎓 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!
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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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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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.
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🎉 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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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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...
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MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Janna Wessels
How states manipulate legal frameworks to serve their own migration policies
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
⏰ 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...
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MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Tehseen Jäger
Precarious and substandard employment of third-country nationals in EU Member States
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"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 ⬇️
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🚨 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...
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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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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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!
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚢 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
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Vacant PhD scholarship in Law of the Sea/Maritime Law and Human Mobility, the Faculty of Law
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨 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...
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Special Issue Launch seminar
Legal Infrastructures: Towards a Conceptual and Empirical Framework (German Law Journal)
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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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
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Postdoctoral position in Credibility and Asylum Law, University of Copenhagen
The Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, is seeking applications for a Postdoc position in credibility and Nordic asylum law. The position is part of the N
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Major publication out from the MOBILE crew + associates: A special issue on 'legal infrastructures' in German Law Journal: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🔥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
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