Are you a master student or exchange student and do you want to write expert opinions in real migration law cases? The Migration Law Clinic is looking for talented students who are interested to participate in the Clinic starting from October 2019. The Clinic is open to master students in law or criminology and exchange students of…
In a judgment of 29 July 2019 the Court of Justice answered preliminary questions referred by the district court of Utrecht, the Netherlands (Case C-680/17). The Migration Law Clinic had issued an expert opinion in this case, which was sent to the CJEU. The case concerned the request of Sri Lankan nationals for a Schengenvisa for the Netherlands. On the basis…
On 9 and 10 May 2019, 12 student teams from all over the world competed in the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The teams pleaded in a case concerning Mr. Moreno, a Venezualan asylum seeker, who applied for asylum on the fictitious Island of Caraiba. Judges from…
The European Court of Human Rights has accepted requests of the Migration Law Clinic to join the proceedings as a third party intervener in two cases against Sweden. It concerns the case M.T. v Sweden (Appl. no. 22105/18) and the case S.S. v Sweden (Appl. no. 43654/18). The first case is about a Syrian unaccompanied minor, whose…
On 13 and 14 March 2019 the CJEU issued judgments in two cases, with regard to which the Migration Law Clinic has written an expert opinion. One judgment concerns evidence in Eritrean family reunification cases. The other concerns withdrawal of a family reunification and long term residence status on the basis of the fraud committed…
Are you a master student or exchange student and do you want to write expert opinions in real migration law cases? The Migration Law Clinic is looking for talented students who are interested to participate in the Clinic starting from February 2019. The Clinic is open to master students in law or criminology and exchange students of…
