MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Vladislava Stoyanova

Automated decision making in the context of asylum: any role for human rights law?

Guest presenter: Dr Vladislava Stoyanova is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. She is the holder of the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (2019-2024) awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, leading the project ‘The Borders Within: The Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Europe.’ She is the holder of the 2023 Henrik Enderlein Prize for research excellence in social sciences. Her publications include the monographs  Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries (Oxford University Press, 2023), Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law (Cambridge University Press 2017), and four co-edited volumes Seeking Asylum in the European Union: Selected Protection Issues Raised by the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System (Brill 2015), The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe: During and in the Aftermath of the 2015–2016 Crisis (Brill 2018), International Law and Violence against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention (Routledge 2020) and Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe (Cambridge University Press 2022).

Presentation: The EU is actively advocating for the use of new technologies in the area of migration and asylum. Such technologies that are based on automated decision making, also known as algorithmic decision making, machine learning or artificial intelligence, have been already tested and the EU is seeking their further development and implementation. During the seminar, I will present my project that aims to examine the compatibility of these technologies with human rights law. The concrete questions that I seek to explore are: Are technologies of automated decision-making in the area of asylum in compliance with human rights law? Which human rights might be at stake and how? Can technologies of automated decision-making in the area of asylum be developed in compliance with human rights law?  If yes, how? If technologies can be developed with compliance with human rights law, how might the technologies themselves change the practice of asylum law? What other problems might ensue, if the technologies are used, and are these problems possible to review against human rights law standards?

Time: 2 May 2024 13:00-14:15

Place: MOBILE – 6B-2-22 Southern Campus + ONLINE

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