Deadline: 1 January 2025
Ghent University announce 3 PhD’s opening in migration and international human rights law at the Department of European, Public and International Law.
The ERC research project “MIGJUST: Global Migration Justice: Beyond conflicting approaches to migration in international human rights law” is seeking to fill three PhD positions. This document concerns the vacancy for research on the UN committees overseeing the main UN human rights treaties.
The key hypothesis of MIGJUST is that there is a fundamental conflict in human rights case law on migration between the human rights approach, adopted by the Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights and the African Court and Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, and on the other hand the sovereignty approach of the European Court of Human Rights. The difference is also at work in the case law of the UN human rights bodies. The two approaches are reflected in, and are in turn reinforced by, political theory on migration justice. In academic studies, the conflict has not been noted because the case law of the European Court of Human Rights is considered to constitute the most developed version of international human rights law. The conflict between the two approaches is problematic because it goes against the international character of international law and hinders international cooperation. MIGJUST will address this problem by:
- analysing the under-studied case law of the Inter-American, African and UN human rights bodies;
- carrying out a comparative analysis of the European, Inter-American, African and UN case law in the field of migration;
- relating the varying positions to political theory on migration justice; and
- developing methodologies to resolve the doctrinal conflict.
For more information on the overall project see the MIGJUST research plan.
The PhD candidate will become a member of the Migration Law Research Group at the Faculty of Law and Criminology. English will be the main language of work.
For further details on the three vacancy notices please check Gent University website:
https://shorturl.at/OFEHz
