Marlene Dumas, The benefit of the doubt (Rechtbank ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1998)
Immigration and asylum policies are made by governments under parliamentary scrutiny, and carried out by the administration. As migrants are not part of the body politic of the country to which they aspire to be admitted, it is not evident that their interests are fully taken into account in the process of policy making and application. Therefore, rights which individuals can invoke vis-à-vis political majorities are of particular importance to migrants. Courts play a crucial role in guaranteeing these rights. Relying on perspective developed within Critical Legal Studies, I have investigated the roles courts play in migration.
Academic publications
- De Nederlandse rechter in het vreemdelingenrecht (2014)
- Analysing European Case-Law on Migration. Options for Critical Lawyers (2014)
- Het debat over het Europese Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens (2012)
- Voor een fundamentele rechtswetenschap (2010)
- Subsidiarity and ‘Arguability’: the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on Judicial Review in Asylum Cases (2009)
- Structural Instability: Strasbourg Case Law on Children’s Family Reunion (2009)
- Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication. Dutch courts on aliens law 1945-1967 (2008)
- Straatsburg en het Nederlandse vluchtelingenrecht (2007)
- Stereotyping and Acceleration. Gender, Procedureal Acceleration and Marginalized Judicial Review in the Dutch Asylum System (2005)
- Het hoger beroep in vreemdelingenzaken (2002)
- De Afdeling en de rechtsstaat. Het hoger beroep in vreemdelingenzaken (2002)
- Het hoger beroep in vreemdelingenzaken (2002)
Media publications
VU researchers working on related topics: Karen Geertsema, Hannah Helmink, Marcelle Reneman.