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

⏰🍽️ 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!

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...

🗓️ 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...

⚡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!

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...

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 ⬇️

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...

"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 ⬇️

Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇

🚨 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...

🔥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...

💥 Call for papers 💥 for a timely and exciting workshop on the (at times) gap between EU law and social reality, hosted at @mobileucph.bsky.social in Copenhagen, 9-10 Oct. DEADLINE for abstracts: 28 Feb. mobilitylaw.ku.dk/workshop-on-...

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

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: https://buff.ly/4ivv7jr

Thanks @aminamemon.bsky.social for joining our lecture series!

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: https://buff.ly/3VbdKub Image: Russell Watkins/DFID

#TransportationJustice Starter Pack for those making roads, mobility, and transportation accessible for all. go.bsky.app/AUVTxJ8 Let me know who to add. Current features: @berkie1.bsky.social @katehoerster.bsky.social @nondriver.bsky.social @davidzipper.bsky.social @costasamaras.com #TransportSky

For an intro to MOBILE Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @ucph.bsky.social, see: video.ku.dk/video/914537...

A growing starter pack #eusky

MOBILE permanent visiting professor on Palestinian displacement and the future of asylum

What can the crisis of Palestinian displacement teach us about the future of asylum law? 🧵

Please share: We made a tentative starter pack of refugee law, migration law and mobility law scholars - will update it continuously; please add newcomers and anyone we missed. go.bsky.app/BGkdP53 #lawsky #migrationstudies #refugeestudies