New Visiting Researcher at MOBILE - Rebecca Thorburn Stern
Rebecca Thorburn Stern is a Professor of Public International Law at the Department of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden. She serves as the Research Director of the Uppsala Forum for Democracy, Peace and Justice. Her primary research interests encompass asylum and migration law, the human rights of children, and the interaction between international and national law. She authored Implementing Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Participation, Power, and Attitudes (Brill Nijhoff, 2017) and has written several articles and book chapters on asylum/migration law and children’s rights. Among her ongoing research projects, notable examples include the multidisciplinary project Nordasil and the CARES project (on SOGIE asylum seekers). Thorburn Stern recently (in collaboration with Patricia Mindus from Uppsala University) was awarded a Swedish Research Council Grant of 4.9 million SEK for the research project "Status and Stability: An Examination of the Importance of Time in Swedish Asylum and Citizenship Legislation."
Join us for Rebecca's Mobility Open Law Lab, Time, temporality and migrant children, on March 14th, 2024.