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Breaking Points of Refugee Law (in German)

Refugee law and policy are controversial topics that raise manifold legal and conceptual questions. For that reason, Daniel Thym steps back and analyses ‘structural deficits of German, European and international refugee law’ at an intermediate level of abstraction in a recent essay called ’Sollbruchstellen des deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts’ (in German), which was published with De Gruyter in an open access format. The book concentrates on structural deficits...

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International Conference: EU Migration Law

The Research Centre Immigration & Asylum Law will host an conference organised by the chair of Prof. Dr. Daniel Thym on the ‘Constitutional Foundations of EU Migration Law’ that brings together leading scholars working on EU immigration, asylum, entry and border control policies from across Europe. They will combine inspection of specific problems with an analysis of underlying trends and broader challenges of supranational migration law. Anyone who wants to join the conference is welcome! For...

UN Migration Compact in the Domestic Debate

8th November, 2018

Migration is cross-border phenomenon that can be better managed when states cooperate. The UN’s Migration Compact, which will be formally adopted in December, follows that rationale. Nonetheless, its detailed prescriptions are the subject of public debates in Germany and other countries. In an open ed to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and in an interview with the regional “Schwäbischen Zeitung”, Daniel Thym explains why much of the criticism is ill-founded, even though...

Death Sentence for Autonomous Investment Tribunals

March 8, 2018

There was much debate about the investment protection provisions in international trade agreements such as CETA or TTIP, while many observers seems not to have realised immediately that the recent ECJ ruling on the Dutch-Slovak arbitration tribunal will have broader repercussions: Daniel Thym explains on the EULawAnalysis that it amount to a death sentence for autonomous investment arbitration worldwide.

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