Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture Series 

Jean Monnet Lecture Series:

• This freely accessible, hybrid, 3-year Jean Monnet lecture series (2024-2026) will feature scholars working on (areas connected with) migration law and governance from interdisciplinary and/or critical perspectives, as well as relevant policy-makers, civil society, and societal actors.

• A number of lectures and debates provide insights to current legal and policy developments at EU level, such as the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. The series also features contributions on the interaction of EU migration law with international refugee, migration, statelessness, and human rights law. Finally, other talks provide novel conceptual insights to the study of migration, such as decolonial or interdisciplinary approaches.

• The lecture series is convened by Dr. Lilian Tsourdi as part of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Migration Law and Governance she holds at the Faculty of Law. The series is organised in cooperation with the research centers and groups MCEL, MACIMIDE and Glaw-NET. 

We cordially invite you to the upcoming lecture of the Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture Series.  On 17 December our speaker is Dr Leandro Mancano, Senior Lecturer in EU Law, Edinburgh Law School; UK's Deputy Contact Point for the European Criminal Law Academic Network. Lecture title: The Law of EU Border Controls. Constitutional Compliance and Conditions for an Area without Internal Frontiers.

Abstract: The law of EU 'border controls', as defined in the Schengen Borders Code, is inherently heterogeneous: it entrusts multiple levels of governance to pursue different objectives, addresses different types of 'control subjects' on the basis of several sources of (soft and hard) law.  Through a cross-cutting analysis, this project investigates whether that law is constitutionally compliant: namely, whether it empowers, in each specific case, the appropriate actor to take the appropriate action against the appropriate group of persons, on the basis of the appropriate set of rules and in the pursuit of the appropriate objectives. The appropriateness is 'measured' from different and potentially conflicting perspectives: subsidiarity, as regards the allocation of the border control-related tasks; solidarity, in respect of inter-state relationships; and fairness vis-à-vis the treatment of the control subjects. The presentation sets out the core concepts underlying this research and discusses some of the overarching themes characterising border controls at the external and internal frontiers of the EU.

Sarah Tas, who is Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty will be the discussant in this lecture.

This event is co-organised with MCEL.

The series will take place physically and online. The Zoom link for the online sessions will be distributed later.