All Outputs (15)

The emerging regionalisation of international criminal law as a consequence of the crisis of confidence in the international criminal justice system: The case of the resurgent African union-ICC jurisdictional dispute over heads of states immunity (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The AU-ICC jurisdictional dispute over Heads of State immunity is in the spotlight again. In June 2024, the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Malabo Protocol, an agreement that sought to create a regional criminal court for Africa, was celebrated in Addis... Read More about The emerging regionalisation of international criminal law as a consequence of the crisis of confidence in the international criminal justice system: The case of the resurgent African union-ICC jurisdictional dispute over heads of states immunity.

Leave no one behind: Making the ‘shared values of human dignity’ in international law central to achieving the SDGs agenda in relation to migrants in the global tropics (2025)
Journal Article

The global migration crisis, driven mainly by armed conflicts and human rights abuses in the world, is wreaking havoc on the ‘leave no one behind’ (LNOB) transformative promise of the UN Agenda 2030, thus raising questions whether the crisis is beyon... Read More about Leave no one behind: Making the ‘shared values of human dignity’ in international law central to achieving the SDGs agenda in relation to migrants in the global tropics.

Hannah Arendt, Refugees and the phenomenology of human rights: On the perplexities, failures and prospects of the international human rights law protection regime (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

One common feature of most of the world’s greatest challenges of the last century—persecution, armed conflicts and systematic human rights violations is that they produced large numbers of refugees, thus triggering the global refugee crisis. The phen... Read More about Hannah Arendt, Refugees and the phenomenology of human rights: On the perplexities, failures and prospects of the international human rights law protection regime.

The search for order in a migration crisis world: On the EU’s biopolitics of racialised bordering and everyday struggles of migrants at Europe’s spaces (geographies) of exception (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The contemporary making of EU immigration law and policy shape and are shaped by the biopolitics of inclusive-exclusion that seeks to draw a binary line between the legal subjects of law (inclusion) and those excluded from the law’s protection (exclu... Read More about The search for order in a migration crisis world: On the EU’s biopolitics of racialised bordering and everyday struggles of migrants at Europe’s spaces (geographies) of exception.

Between human dignity and public order: States and refugees’ contestations and conflicting claims to shared values of human dignity in international law in the context of the global refugee crisis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The global refugee crisis driven mainly by armed conflicts is wreaking havoc on the stability of international refugee law and international law generally; thus, raising questions whether the crisis is beyond the reach of international law and the po... Read More about Between human dignity and public order: States and refugees’ contestations and conflicting claims to shared values of human dignity in international law in the context of the global refugee crisis.

Do the ‘risks’ to public order posed by the journeys of transnational migrants challenge the stability, effectiveness and redemptive power of international human rights law to protect migrant rights? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Whether through the Mediterranean, the English Channel or other routes, migrants and refugees, through crossing national borders in their attempt to reach an international destination, challenge an international system built on the premise of state s... Read More about Do the ‘risks’ to public order posed by the journeys of transnational migrants challenge the stability, effectiveness and redemptive power of international human rights law to protect migrant rights?.

The responses of states to the transnational problem of conflict fleeing migrants and refugees: A New Haven school perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

International law imposes obligations on states to search for missing migrants and respect the rights of their surviving families. Despite the existence of such obligations, in recent years, the perilous journeys of migrants fleeing armed conflicts a... Read More about The responses of states to the transnational problem of conflict fleeing migrants and refugees: A New Haven school perspective.

Missing migrants: Legal obligations and psychosocial implications for families (2021)
Thesis

This thesis is an analysis of the responses and obligations of states towards missing migrants and their surviving families from a legal, policy and psychosocial perspective in the context of the Europe migrant crisis. Governed by the UK migration po... Read More about Missing migrants: Legal obligations and psychosocial implications for families.

Does bare life become bare bodies upon Death? On the biopolitics of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean and drawing of lines between mournable and unmournable psychosocial bodies (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Starting from the premise that dead bodies are beyond the reach of sovereign power and power has a grip on it only in statistical terms (Foucault, 2003), dead bodies in migration whether Alan Kurdi’s or Valeria Martínez and father’s indicate the powe... Read More about Does bare life become bare bodies upon Death? On the biopolitics of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean and drawing of lines between mournable and unmournable psychosocial bodies.

How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? A transnational law perspective (2021)
Journal Article

All over the world, several thousands of migrants go missing when they attempt to flee from war, violence, persecution, repressive regimes, systematic human rights violations etc. Thousands die each year in deadly shipwrecks in a desperate attempt to... Read More about How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? A transnational law perspective.

How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

All over the world, several thousands of migrants go missing when they attempt to flee from war, violence, persecution, repressive regimes, systematic human rights violations etc. Thousands die each year in deadly shipwrecks in a desperate attempt to... Read More about How transnationally effective are the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants?.

EU and US privacy law running on a collision course: Is there anything like a ‘right to be forgotten’ and can lessons be learnt from Google Spain v. AEPD and González (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The increasing use of modern communication technologies in the commercial and public sectors is constituting a threat to privacy and data protection today. A citizen who whispers in the closet—I want to be forgotten—is often appalled to hear their fa... Read More about EU and US privacy law running on a collision course: Is there anything like a ‘right to be forgotten’ and can lessons be learnt from Google Spain v. AEPD and González.

Pull and Push'- Implementing the complementarity principle of the Rome statute of the ICC within the AU: Opportunities and challenges (2018)
Journal Article

The complementarity principle of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is an international legal principle that governs the relationship between two; sometimes; contrasting international principles of law; namely sovereign equali... Read More about Pull and Push'- Implementing the complementarity principle of the Rome statute of the ICC within the AU: Opportunities and challenges.

Missing migrants: Is missing data the missing link and can potentials of the big data regime be leveraged to bridge information gaps? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UNHCR estimates that in 2018, well over 75,000 migrants arrived in Europe by sea while more than 1,500 have been reported dead or missing (UNHCR, 2018). While missing migrants are defined using the fact that their families do not have any knowled... Read More about Missing migrants: Is missing data the missing link and can potentials of the big data regime be leveraged to bridge information gaps?.

Sorry but the UK is full to capacity: Comprehending the UK policy approach to tackling the Europe migrant crisis (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

"Let the migrants drown, we have lost our sense of common humanity" is widely believed by critics to be the UK’s perceived policy stance about migrants trying to reach Europe. The UK government on its own believes that the rescue operations in the Me... Read More about Sorry but the UK is full to capacity: Comprehending the UK policy approach to tackling the Europe migrant crisis.