Prof. dr. Ellen Desmet

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Ellen Desmet is an Associate Professor of Migration Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, where she founded the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw).

Her research is situated at the intersection of migration law, human rights and legal anthropology, with a focus on asylum and family reunification.

She teaches on migration law and socio-legal studies, and coordinates the migration law component of the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic.

She serves as co-chair of the Human Rights Research Network (HRRN), chair of the Belgian Refugee Council – NANSEN, and steering board member of the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR). She is editor of the International Encyclopaedia for Migration Law, and affiliated to the Human Rights Centre (HRC), the consortium Crime, Criminology and Criminal Policy (CCCP) and the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI).

Ellen Desmet complemented her law studies (KU Leuven) with a master in Cultures and Development Studies (KU Leuven) and a master in Development Cooperation (Ghent University). She holds a PhD in Law from the KU Leuven (2010) and previously held positions at the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre, the Law and Development Research Group of the University of Antwerp and the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University.