Hertie School in dialogue

All news by Prof. Cathryn Costello, PhD

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Rights of families of disappeared persons: How international bodies address the needs of families of disappeared persons in Europe

Dr Grażyna Baranowska, MSC Fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, presented her book, published by Intersentia in June 2021.

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The Centre for Fundamental Rights took part in the 2021 Berlin Human Rights Film Festival

The Centre for Fundamental Rights took part in the 2021 Berlin Human Rights Film Festival

Cathryn Costello co-edits a Symposium Issue of AJIL Unbound

The Symposium Issue, published on October 2021, is the first major output of the Undoing Discriminatory Borders research project.

Cathryn Costello and Jessica Breaugh provide a keynote presentation

Cathryn Costello and Jessica Breaugh will provide a keynote presentation at the workshop on "Flucht vor Recht – Flucht ins Recht? Empirisch-interdisziplinäre Asylrechtsforschung am Schauplatz Gericht".

Centre for Fundamental Rights awarded Volkswagen Foundation “Challenges for Europe” research grant

Cathryn Costello, Professor of Fundamental Rights and Co-director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights to lead research project on Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees (AFAR).

Launch of The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law

This book launch event was hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre, Hertie School's Centre for Fundamental Rights, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, on Tuesday 25 May 2021. Listen to the recording from the launch event here.

The human rights case against facial recognition

In an event hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights as part of the Fundamental Rights in Practice event series, experts from Amnesty International presented the human rights case against the use of facial recognition technologies, in conversation with scholars from the Hertie School.

RefMig meets the Author

Cathryn Costello interviews Dr Lamis Abdelaaty about her book 'Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees' (OUP 2021). Watch the interview here.

Racial borders

Prof. E. Tendayi Achiume discusses the intersection between racial injustice and migration governance from an international law perspective.

Cathryn Costello contributed to a panel at the Kaldor Centre's 2020 Conference

Costello presented in a panel entitled ‘Protection 360: Surveying refugee challenges across the regions’.

Cathryn Costello delivers a keynote speech at the conference of the Network Migration Law

Costello's speech on 'Human Rights at the EU’s External Border' in now available online.

Forced Migration Review issue on Recognising refugees is now available online

This issue is published in collaboration with the RefMig research project.