Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law

Professor, Center Director

Karen Blixens Plads 16

Copenhagen, 2300

Denmark

http://mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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1.

Non-Refoulement in a World of Cooperative Deterrence

U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-016
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 13 Aug 2014
James C. Hathaway and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Michigan Law School and University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Comparative and Foreign Law, Human Rights Law, Immigration Law, International Law

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What is a Compact? Migrants’ Rights and State Responsibilities Regarding the Design of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Oct 2017
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Elspeth Guild, Prof. Violeta Moreno-Lax, Marion Panizzon and Isobel Roele
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law, Queen Mary Law School, World Trade Institute and Queen Mary, University of London
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Governance, Migration, Refugee, Human Rights

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International Refugee Law and Refugee Policy: The Case of Deterrence Policies

Journal of Refugee Studies, 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Aug 2014
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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international refugee law, migration control, deterrence, non-entrée, non-admission, transnational, law and politics, liberal institutionalism, realism, critical legal studies

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Refugee Policy As ‘Negative Nation Branding’: The Case of Denmark and the Nordic

Revised version published in Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook, 2017
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Human rights, immigration policy, law, migration, refugees, asylum

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Extraterritorial Migration Control and Deterrence

In Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam (eds.) Oxford Handbook in International Refugee Law, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Nikolas Feith Tan
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Danish Institute for Human Rights
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Refugees, asylum, international law, human rights, non-refoulement, migration, extraterritorial, extraterritorial application of treaties, responsibility of States

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Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Regard to Refugees and Migrants

iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 225, (Book chapter, forthcoming in Gibney, Krajewski and Vandenhole (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, Routledge 2021)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Feb 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Migration, Refugees, Human Rights, Extraterritorial, Transnational

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An Introduction to Danish Immigration Law

iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 234, 2021, Forthcoming in Peter Aagard Nielsen and Jesper Olsen (eds.) Danish Administrative and Constitutional Law, Hans Reitzel, 2021
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Mar 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Sarah Scott Ford
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
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Denmark, immigration, asylum, family reunification, expulsion, return, deportation, rule of law, sovereignty, human rights, EU opt-out

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The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy

Special issue in preparation for the UN Summit on Refugees and Migration, Journal of Migration and Human Security, Vol. 5(1), 2017
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Nikolas Feith Tan
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Danish Institute for Human Rights
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Human Rights, refugees, asylum, international law, migration control, deterrence policies

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The Normative Impact of the Global Compact on Refugees

iCourts Working Paper Series No. 151, 2019, Forthcoming in International Journal on Refugee Law, Special Issue on the Global Compacts
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Jan 2019
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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international refugee law, international human rights, humanitarian law, international law, diplomacy, soft law

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Regime Entanglement in the Emergence of Interstitial Legal Fields: Denmark and the Uneasy Marriage of Human Rights and Migration Law

iCourts Working Paper Series No. 239, Forthcoming in Nordiques, Vol. 40, 2021
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Mikael Madsen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
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Migration, human rights, regime entanglement, international law, Denmark

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Legal Evolution and the 1951 Refugee Convention

International Migration, Vol. 59, 2021
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 16 Nov 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Refugee rights, international law, human rights, 1951 Convention, legal evolution, normative change, United Nations

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Sovereignty at Sea: The Law and Politics of Saving Lives in Mare Liberum

Revised version published in Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 17(4), 2014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Transnational Legal Studies
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boat migration, governmentality, high seas, international law, politics of law, sovereignty

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The Externalisation of European Migration Control and the Reach of International Refugee Law

In Elspeth Guild and Paul Minderhoud (eds.) The First Decade of EU Migration and Asylum Law. Brill, 2011
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Nov 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Refugee rights, asylum, migration, human rights, Europe, extraterritorial migration control, international law, non-refoulement

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International Refugee Law Between Scholarship and Practice

International Journal of Refugee Law, Vol. 32(2), Forthcoming, iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 180, 2019
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Dec 2019
Rosemary Byrne and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Trinity College (Dublin) - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) and University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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international law, international refugee law, field theory, academia, legal sociology

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A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control

Forthcoming in German Law Journal 21:3, 2020, iCourts Working Paper Series, no. 192, 2020, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2020-96
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 May 2020 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2020
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Nikolas Feith Tan
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Danish Institute for Human Rights
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Asylum, Accountability, Migration Control, Strategic Litigation

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The Do-Gooders’ Dilemma: Scandinavian Asylum and Migration Policies in the Aftermath of 2015

iCourts Working Paper Series, No. 224, (Book chapter, forthcoming in Puyvallée and Bjørkdahl (eds.), Do-Gooders at the End of Aid: Scandinavian Humanitarianism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Feb 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Asylum, Immigration, Scandinavia, Nation Branding, Crisis

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The Politics of Transnational Law

iCourts Working Paper Series No. 152
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Jan 2019
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Transnational Legal Studies
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transnationalism, transnational legal theory, legality, practice theory, international law and politics

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Arctic Asylum: The Legal Regulation of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Greenland and Svalbard

iCourts Working Paper Series, no. 274, Forthcoming in Nordic Journal of International Law
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Dec 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Sune Klinge
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Independent
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asylum, refugees, aliens law, Nordics, Greenland, Svalbard

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Extraterritorial migration control and the reach of human rights

In Vincent Chetail and Céline Bauloz (eds.) Research Handbook on International Law and Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Human rights, boat migrants, refugees, extraterritorial migration control, international law, migration, jurisdiction, asylum

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Sovereignty Games, International Law and Politics

In Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds.) The Changing Practices of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Aug 2021
Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Transnational Legal Studies and University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Sovereignty, international law, politics and international relations, legal regimes, sovereignty game

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International Cooperation on Migration Control: Towards a Research Agenda for Refugee Law

Revised version published in European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 20(4), 2018
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 30 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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International refugee law, migration control, deterrence, politics of law, Global South, strategic litigation, inter-disciplinary approaches

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The Right to Seek – Revisited. On the UN Human Rights Declaration Article 14 and the EU Asylum Policy

Revised version published in European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 10, 2008
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Independent
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Universal Human Rights Declaration, Art. 14, drafting history, right to an asylum procedure, EU asylum and immigration policy, extraterritorial migration control, visa, carrier sanctions, immigration liaison officers, interdiction, outsourcing refugee protection, regional protection programmes,

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The Case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies

Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, 2020
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Vasna Ramasar, Mo Hamza, Jeff Hearn, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Helle Rydström
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law, Lund University, Lund University, Örebro University, Lund University and Lund University
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Interdisciplinary, crisis, inequalities, spatiality, temporality, interdisciplinary crisis studies

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Regime Entanglement and Interstitial Legal Fields: The case of Denmark and the migration-human rights nexus

Nordiques, Vol. 40, 2021
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Mikael Madsen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
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Migration, human rights, migration law, international law, Denmark

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Introduction to the Symposium on COVID-19, Global Mobility and International Law

American Journal of International Law Unbound, Vol. 114, 2020
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 30 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Tendayi Achiume and Thomas Spijkerboer
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and VU University Amsterdam - Faculty of Law
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Migration, global mobility, international law, refugees, migrants, human rights, migration law, COVID-19

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Introduction - The Changing Practices of International Law

In Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds.) The Changing Practices of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Transnational Legal Studies
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Public international law, law, politics and international relations, international relations and international organisations

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Grønland som flygtningeland - udlændingeretlige og folkeretlige implikationer (Greenland as a Home for Refugees – Implications of Immigration Law and International Law)

Juristen Nr.2, 2021
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Sune Klinge and Therese Lind Benhardt
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law, Independent and University of Copenhagen
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flygtninge, Grønland, menneskerettigheder, asyl, Danmark, udlændingelov, folkeret

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The Dark Side of Legalization

In Tanja Aalberts and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds.) The Changing Practices of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Transnational Legal Studies
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International law, international relations, politics, interdisciplinary approach, legal regimes, legalization

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Controlling Migration through International Cooperation

European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 20(4), 2018
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Sep 2021
Annick Pijnenburg, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Conny R.J.J. Rijken
Radboud University Nijmegen - Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law and Tilburg Law School
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Refugee rights, migration, international law, human rights, international relations

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Straitjacket or Sovereignty Shield? The Danish Opt-Out on Justice and Home Affairs and Prospects after the Treaty of Lisbon

Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Sep 2021
Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen and University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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European Union, sovereignty, Denmark, asylum, immigration, civil law, refugees, human rights

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The Perfect Storm: On Boat Migrants and Sovereignty

In Violeta Moreno-Lax and Efthymios Papastavridis (eds.) ‘Boat Refugees’ and Migrants at Sea: A comprehensive approach: Integrating Maritime security with human rights. Brill, 2016
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Human rights, boat migrants, migration, refugees, international law, deterrence measures, sovereignty, globalisation

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Creative Legal Thinking and the Evolution of International Refugee Law

Lakimies, Vol. 112(1), 2014
Posted: 28 Aug 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law

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migration controls, asylum, international refugee law, human rights, refugees, international law

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Migration Flows

In Marianne Krogh (ed.), Connectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Strandberg Publishing, 2020
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 15 Sep 2021
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
University of Copenhagen - MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law
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Global migration architecture, risk distribution, mobility, migration, xenophobia