William Hamilton Byrne receives grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark
William Hamilton Byrne, Assistant Professor at MOBILE, has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The grant amounts to approximately DKK 287.000 and will be funding travel for the project called: "Legal Infrastructures for Human Mobility".
The project aims to further develop the concept of legal infrastructure in relation to human mobility.
Legal Infrastructures for Human Mobility
Human mobility has always been key to human development, cultural exchange, economic flourishing, and ultimately, survival. Yet few issues today remain subject to such complicated restrictions. Laws related to mobility can be found across diverse issue areas, such as human rights, migration law, and trade law, and the benefits and burdens of this global legal regime are not always shared equally. Global mobility is shaping up to be one of the crucial international policy areas of the twenty first century, yet policy makers and academics know surprisingly little about how these different laws interact to concretely shape mobility patterns. This project pioneers the concept of legal infrastructures to examine how law, practices, and material forces work together to enable and constrain movements of persons around the globe. It focuses on developing the concept of legal infrastructures for human mobility across three theoretical dimensions. Firstly, it seeks to cognize how law is integrated into society as a directing technology that shapes social patterning and hierarchy. Secondly, it examines the law's systemic qualities that arise through the networks of activity that connect seemingly disparate legal issue areas. Thirdly, it seeks to foreground our scope for intervention through research process, with a critical empirical methodology that actively works to address international law's growing inequalities.
Congratulations to William!