VU Migration Law Clinic zoekt zaken!
De Migration Law Clinic (MLC) van de Vrije universiteit Amsterdam voorziet advocaten, non-gouvernementele organisaties en andere organisaties kosteloos van onafhankelijk juridisch advies (in
de vorm van een expert opinie) over complexe vraagstukken van Europees- en VN-migratierecht.
Mocht u advies van de Clinic wensen dan horen wij dat graag van u. We zijn op het moment op zoek
naar nieuwe zaken waarmee de Clinic in oktober 2023 aan de slag kan gaan. U kunt dan een expert
opinie verwachten in januari 2024 (of eerder indien nodig in verband met een procedure).
De Clinic richt zich op alle gebieden van migratierecht, inclusief procesrechtelijke kwesties die
daarmee samenhangen. De MLC brengt advies uit ten behoeve van procedures die aanhangig zijn (of
binnenkort worden) bij het EHRM, het HvJEU of VN-comités, en in nationaalrechtelijke procedures.
Verzoeken om advies kunnen liefst zo snel mogelijk, maar uiterlijk 29 september 2023 per email
ingediend worden bij Younous Arbaoui, de coördinator van de Clinic (migrationlawclinic@vu.nl).
Wij verzoeken u in uw mail aan te geven:
1. over welke concrete rechtsvraag het advies moet gaan
2. wat het belang is van deze rechtsvraag
3. in welke procedure het advies zal/kan worden ingediend
4. op welke termijn het advies moet worden ingediend
De MLC geeft geen advies over hoe er in een individuele zaak geprocedeerd moet worden. We zijn
op zoek naar zaken met rechtsvragen die ook voor andere zaken van belang (kunnen) zijn.
The Migration Law Clinic is currently looking for new cases, on which the students can work from October 2023 to January 2024.
If you have suggestions for cases or topics for the Migration Law Clinic, you can contact the Clinic coordinator (migrationlawclinic@vu.nl). Please send your suggestion in English.
For whom?
Practicing lawyers, non-governmental organisations and other organisations can request the Migration Law Clinic for legal advice.
Furthermore the Clinic advises on its own initiative. In such cases the Clinic will approach practicing lawyers who are involved in legal proceedings that directly relate to an advice written by the Clinic or in which the Clinic would like to write a legal advice.
The Migration Law Clinic offers independent advice meaning that it does not write arguments, written observations or fill in ECtHR application forms for the party which has requested such an advice.
Legal issues
The Migration Law Clinic advises on all (substantive and procedural ) aspects of European migration law (EU law and European Convention on Human Rights). These include:
- Asylum
- Family reunification
- Labour migration
- Free movement of EU citizens
- Detention
Selection of cases
The Migration Law Clinic will decide whether a request can be accepted on the basis of the capacity available, urgency and the type of the legal dispute. The Migration Law Clinic reserves the right to refuse a request without further reasoning.
Working methods
The Clinic may request the European Court of Human Rights permission to submit a third party intervention in your case.
In the context of proceedings lodged at the EU Court of Justice the Clinic advises in the form of an expert opinion which parties can use to write or attach to their written observations for the Court.
The process of consultancy usually starts with a meeting with the lawyer(s) and/or organisations who are involved in the legal proceedings for which the Clinic delivers an advice. During the meeting all the legal questions of the case as well as the strategy on how to approach them will be discussed.
In case it is necessary to get a full picture of the case at issue the Clinic may request the parties to provide the Clinic with relevant documents from the case file or to allow the students to examine those documents. For this purpose, lawyers and organisations should ask for permission beforehand from their clients or alternatively anonymise those documents. The coordinator as well as the students of the Clinic have signed a confidentiality agreement.
The students of the Clinic write legal advice under intensive supervision of an expert of the migration law section.
Lawyers and/or organisations who are involved in the proceedings decide whether they wish to make use of the advice of the Clinic during the proceedings.
Request for advice
Requests for legal advice may be submitted to the coordinator of the Clinic (migrationlawclinic@vu.nl) or via the contact form which you can find under the tab ‘Contact’. Please write your request in English.
We kindly ask you to include the following information in your email:
- To which field of law does the advice relate?
- What is the importance of the legal question?
- In which legal proceeding will the advice be submitted?
- The date on which the advice has to be ready
If you wish to receive legal advice in the context of a (possible) reference for a preliminary ruling before the Court of Justice of the European Union then we kindly ask you to contact us as soon as possible as the Court uses brief time-limits. You may contact us as soon as the national court has indicated that it considers to request a preliminary ruling.
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