**List of Contributors**

**Kathryn ALLINSON** is a legal scholar researching in the field of state responsibility, human rights, and migration. Her PhD on *Establishing responsibility for causing displacement: An inquiry into the role of 'Displacing Third States'* was awarded in 2021 from Queen Mary University of London. Kathryn is a Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for International Law at the University of Bristol and a Researcher on the Horizon 2020 'PROTECT' project. In this role, she has contributed multiple commentaries on the Global Compact on Migration, published widely on the topic, and produced two handbooks for legal practitioners working in the United Kingdom and the EU. She is also the Managing Editor of the peer-reviewed journal *International Community Law Review*.

**Alexander ATUL** is Assistant Professor in Law at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata, India; and faculty advisor of the International Law Student Association (ILSA) WBNUJS Chapter. He is an alumnus of Loyola College, School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University (TNDALU), Chennai, and the Korean Maritime Institute, Busan. He was also a recipient of the Junior Research Fellow and a university topper in LLB (2014) and LLM (2016). He recently completed a Diploma Course in 'law of the seas' with magna cum laude from the Korean Maritime Institute with full scholarship.

**Nicolette BUSUTTIL** is a Lecturer in Law at the Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, London. She holds a PhD in Law from Queen Mary University of London where she is Assistant Coordinator of *(B)OrderS: The Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Migration and Mobility*. She specializes in the implications of the intersection between international and EU law for migrants and refugees, with a focus on migrants with disabilities. Her additional research interests include implementing Global Compacts for Refugees and for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration in the European international protection framework, a topic which she has researched extensively and published on as part of the Horizon 2020 'PROTECT' project.

**Galina CORNELISSE** is a Professor of Courts and Transnational Justice at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the regulation of human mobility across borders, the protection of fundamental rights, and the interplay of law and other disciplines in this area. She teaches a wide variety of courses, ranging from fundamental rights in Europe, to public international law, transnational law in social context, and international weapons law.

**Alessandra FAVI** is currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in EU Law at the University of Florence. She holds a Bachelor and master's degree in Law from the University of Florence and a *Maˆıtrise* and *Master 2 en Droit* from the Universite Paris 1 Panth ´ eon-Sorbonne. She holds a PhD ´ (cum laude) in International and EU Law from the University of Florence. She is member of the editorial board of the online review *Osservatorio sulle fonti* and of the online blog *BlogDUE* of the *Associazione italiana degli studiosi di diritto dell'Unione europea* (AISDUE). Her research interests include the protection of fundamental rights in the EU, the rule of law crisis, effective judicial protection at EU and national levels, and EU asylum and migration law.

**Elspeth GUILD** is a Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in Law at the Queen Mary University of London and Emerita Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, and teaches at Sciences-Po Paris. She regularly advises EU institutions on migration- and asylum-related matters and has written studies for the European Parliament on the European dimension of the 2015–16 refugee crisis, and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on migration. She also advises the Council of Europe (CoE) and has written two Issue Papers for the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights: one on the right to leave a country, and the other on the criminalization of migration.

**Izabella MAJCHER** is a researcher and advocate in international human rights and refugee law, with expertise in EU immigration and asylum policy. She is a visiting researcher at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, where her current research focuses on the question of return (expulsion) from the perspective of international and EU law. Her PhD from the IHEID addressed the EU return policy and was published as a monograph under the title *The European Union Returns Directive and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Law* (Brill/Nijhoff 2019). Izabella published widely on the question of human rights of migrants and served as a consultant for international and non-governmental organizations.

**Tam´as MOLNAR´** is a legal research officer at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna. He is also a visiting lecturer on international migration law at the Department of International Relations at the Corvinus University of Budapest (where he has held multiple positions since October 2003). Before joining FRA, he worked for a decade in various ministries in Hungary on international and EU migration law. He was also a delegate in migration-related EU Council preparatory bodies and negotiated international agreements on migration. He read law in Budapest (Master of Laws) and Brussels (LLM on EU law), holds a PhD in international law (2013), and obtained his 'habilitation' (post-doctoral research and teaching qualification) in public international law in 2022 in Budapest. He published widely in the fields of international and EU migration law and the relationship of legal orders. His latest monograph is titled *The Interplay between the EU's Return Acquis and International Law* (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021).

**Marion PANIZZON**, Dr iur, LLM, is a senior research fellow of the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. She holds a 'habilitation' (2015) in international economic law, EU, and international migration law and led several multi-year research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2019, Marion also acts as deputy chair of the advisory board of the Center for Global Migration Studies of Gottingen University. Her research focus is on labor migration ¨ at the intersection of WTO/GATS and bilateral labor migration agreements. Marion recently published Adjudicating Labor Mobility under France's Agreements on the Management of Migration in *Theoretical Inquiries in Law* (2022) and Multi-Level Governance of Migration in Times of Crisis in the *Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies* (2018, with M. van Riemsdijk).

**Marcelle RENEMAN** is Director of the Amsterdam Law Clinics at the University of Amsterdam and Assistant Professor of Migration Law at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Marcelle obtained her PhD at the University of Leiden in 2013 on a monograph titled *EU Asylum Procedures and the Right to an Effective Remedy*. She has published widely in the field of EU and national procedural law in the context of migration and asylum, including on the right to an effective remedy, evidentiary standards, border procedures and the role of time in asylum procedures. She has taught courses in international, European, and Dutch migration law.

**Nakul SINGH** is a fourth-year law student pursuing BA LLB at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. He has a key interest in the matters of constitutional law, contract law, and public international law. In the field of Indian constitutional law, he has several publications and paper presentations to his credit. He also keeps himself invested in groundwork and remains in touch with the local district administration in matters pertaining to town planning, analyzing women safety measures, and increasing the green cover.

**Zvezda VANKOVA** is a researcher at the Law Faculty of Lund University and the principal investigator of the project *Refugee protection or cherry picking? Assessing new admission policies for refugees in Europe* (2023–2026) funded by the Swedish Research Council. She holds a PhD in Law from Maastricht University. Before joining academia, Dr Vankova worked at the Migration Policy Group in Brussels and the Open Society Institute in Sofia. The overall focus of her research aims to examine the interface of legal infrastructures pertaining to human mobility and how their enforcement influences the rights and trajectories of people on the move. Her research interests lie at the intersection of EU law, public international law, and empirical legal studies with a focus on human rights, migration, integration, and complementary pathways for refugees. She has acted as a consultant for the European Parliament, the Council of Europe's Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees, and the UN Refugee Agency.

**Daniela VITIELLO** is a tenure track assistant professor of EU law at Tuscia University (Viterbo, Italy), a co-coordinator of the Academy of Law and Migration (ADiM), and a co-convener of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law. She is managing editor of *European Papers*, a member of the editorial board of *Roma Tre Law Review*, and a member of the Editorial Committees of *SIDIblog* and *ADiM Blog*. Dr Vitiello was postdoctoral fellow at the Universities of Roma Tre (2015–2017), Bern (2017), and Florence (2017–2019), and studied international law and EU law in Rome (LUISS, Sapienza), Durham (2008), and The Hague (2012), before obtaining her Doctorate from Sapienza University of Rome (2014). She published a monograph titled *The External Borders of the European Union* (Cacucci 2020, in Italian) and specialized in the field of EU migration and asylum law, citizenship, fundamental rights, and the rule of law.

**Aylin YILDIZ** is a research fellow at the World Trade Institute and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research of the University of Bern. She holds a PhD in law (World Trade Institute, University of Bern, 2022), an LLB eq. (University of Istanbul, 2016), an LLM (University of Toronto, 2014), and an LLB Hons. (London School of Economics, 2013). She is a fully qualified member of the Istanbul Bar. Her recent publications include *Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move: Providing Protection under International Law* (Brill, 2022), and *Good Business Gone Better: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Sustainability* (KDP, 2022).
