Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Integrative Research Institute Law & Society (LSI)

On the 11th of June Prof. Cathryn Costello from the University College Dublin will give a guest lecture on the topic "Effective Judicial Protection of Migrants and Refugees? The role of Europe’s supranational courts in protecting and generating rights".

Cathryn Costello is Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. She was formerly Professor of Fundamental Rights and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (2020 – 2023), and she remains a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School. She was Andrew W Mellon Professor of International Refugee and Migration Law at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford (2013-2023). She is a leading scholar of international and European refugee and migration law and also explores the relationship between migration and labour law in her work. She was Principal Investigator of RefMig, an ERC-funded research project exploring refugee mobility, recognition and rights (2018-2024), and currently leads the Volkswagen Foundation funded AFAR (Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees) project. She has also undertaken research for UNHCR, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford.