This year, the Migration law Clinic (MLC) will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. To this aim, the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL) organises a symposium at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The objective of the symposium is to reflect on the experience we have built with the MLC. The Symposium will help us identify strengths…
[EN, Dutch below] In response to a request sent in by a social worker from an NGO, the students of the EU Citizen Rights Corner published a legal advice regarding the access to shelter and social assistance for EU migrant workers who lost their jobs. The central question of this advice is whether it is…
In December 2021, the Migration Law Clinic issued an expert opinion concerning cases in which the Raad van Stad (Dutch Council of State) had referred preliminary questions. The cases focus on three people whose applications for international protection are yet to be examined on the merits, since the Dutch Immigration Authorities (IND) decided that Romania…
On 22 June 2022, the Dutch Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (Council of State) referred preliminary questions to the Court of Justice EU (CJEU) about the conditions for refusing a refugee status to a person who has committed a ‘particular serious crime’ and constitutes a ‘ danger to the community’ of the…
Are you a master student or exchange student and do you want to write expert opinions in real migration law cases? There are still a couple of spots open for participation in the Migration Law Clinic and its new pilot programme, the EU Citizen Rights Corner, so we have extended the deadline for applications to 25 January…
On 8 November 2022, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice ruled in Joined Cases C-704/20 PPU and C-39/21 PPU that national courts must review the legality of a detention measure of a third country national ex officio. This means that they must declare a detention measure illegal and order the release of the…
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