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Track I - Human Rights and Border Control
Expert
Dr. Paul Harvey

Since 2005, Dr. Paul Harvey has been a lawyer in the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights. His work at the Court has consisted mainly of cases against the United Kingdom, dealing with counter-terrorism, criminal procedure and sentencing, extradition and immigration. Furthermore, Dr. Harvey regularly attends Council of Europe/UNHCR training seminars, primarily in the fields of immigration and criminal procedure. Additionally, he has published various books and articles on human rights law.

Organizers
Julia Berg
Lea Dannich

International migration has become a key issue of our globalizing world that constitutes many opportunities and challenges. In the wake of the recent migration and refugee movements, borders have turned into grounds of control. In hope to regulate illegal migration, border control has become increasingly complex, shifting beyond state borders into the territorial sea or the sovereign area of third states. Often, borders are seen as zones of exception, where obligations arising from human rights and refugee law beyond and within state borders are disregarded. Due to the moral complexity at stake and the ambiguous interplay between governments, policies, and human agency, addressing the relationships between border controls, human rights and migration policies is difficult. In light of the current European refugee crisis, this track will deal with the question of legal responsibility beyond state borders, the role of international and European human rights and refugee law and the obligations of countries and border guards in face of the current influx of migrants to Europe.

Isabelle von Loeben
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