Courts

Court judgments cannot be analysed merely as law, but also as text. Analysing the ambiguities, inconsistencies, the silences and neurotic repetitions in these judgments/texts allows for different kinds of analysis than those made possible by restricting the analysis to the legal take-away. While this genre of analysis is decidedly doctrinal, its focus is on how the legal outcomes of judgments are made to be obvious and self-evident. In my work I use such analysis to better understand case law on irregular migration (Coloniality and Recent European Migration Case Law, 2022; Bifurcation of people, bifurcation of law, 2018; Analysing European Case Law on Migration, 2014; Structural Instability, 2009) and on gender (Gender, Sexuality, Asylum and European Human Rights, 2018; Gender and Refugee Status, 1999), while I have also applied it to expose the pro-state bias in the case law of the highest Dutch court in migration and asylum cases (Het hoger beroep in vreemdelingenzaken, 2002; De Nederlandse rechter in het vreemdelingenrecht, 2014).

Academic publications

• Global Migration Justice: Beyond conflicting approaches to migration in international human rights law MIGJUST (2024)
• Coloniality and Case Law on the Australian Asylum Offshoring Scheme (2023)
• Coloniality and Recent European Migration Case Law (2022)
• The geopolitics of knowledge production in international migration law (2021)
• Bifurcation of Mobility, Bifurcation of Law. Externalization of migration policy before the EU Court of Justice (2018)
• 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

• The EU Court of Justice refuses to address refugee exclusion (2018)
• Interview Barend & Van Dorp, 5 december 2002

VU researchers working on related topics: Marcelle Reneman.