Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

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Thomas holds the first ever Danish professorship in immigration and mobility law. He is Director of MOBILE - the Danish National Research Foundation's Center of Excellence on Global Mobility Law. In addition, he leads the Nordic Asylum Law & Data Lab - pioneering interdisciplinary research in computer science and migration law. He received his PhD (in international law) from Aarhus University, MSc (in refugee studies) from the University of Oxford and MA (in political science) from the University of Copenhagen.

His research focuses on Nordic and international mobility law, international refugee and migration law, and international legal theory. He is author or editor of several books, including Access to Asylum: International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control (Cambridge University Press, 2011, recipient of the 2013 KG Idman Award for best monograph in international law), The Changing Practices of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2016); The Power of Legality: International Law and its Practices (Cambridge University Press 2016); Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation (Routledge, 2016) Protecting the Rights of Others (DJØF, 2013), The Migration Industry: The Commercialisation of International Migration (Routledge, 2013), and Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalizing State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond (Palgrave, 2008). He is editorial board member of Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies and the International Journal of Refugee Law.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is a regular commentator on asylum and immigration matters in Danish and international media. He has consulted for a number of international organisations, governments and NGOs, and previously served as member of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board.

Thomas is PI on several ongoing research projects funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, NordForsk, Villum Foundation, Volkswagen Stifftung, European Commission, Wallenberg Fioundation and UCPH-DATA+.

KEYWORDS: asylum, refugees, migration, human mobility, law and politics

VIDEOS:

Lecture on "refugee crisis" at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences

CMS Migration series: “The End of the Deterrence Paradigm and Future Directions for Global Refugee Studies”

Lecture from the AHRI MOOC on mass migration

Science & Cocktails Lecture: “The Refugee Crisis: Facts, numbers and solutions”