EVENT:
Episode 5: The Rule of Law in Reimagining Immigration Law & Enforcement
02/12/2026
17:00 - 18:00
Webinar
Online
Webinar Series: The Rule of Law, Migration & Human Rights: Retreat, Retrenchment, Reimagining
Matrix, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford), and the Sutherland School of Law (University College Dublin) are co-hosting a series of webinars to explore the contested relationship between the rule of law, human rights and migration governance.
Episode 5: The Rule of Law in Reimagining Immigration Law & Enforcement
The ideal of the rule of law is poorly institutionalised in immigration law and enforcement. In this final seminar, we invite speakers to reflect on how the rule of law could be used to reimagine immigration law and enforcement, by taking state violations more seriously, tempering the coercive power of the state, enabling migrants to legalise their status, or even questioning the conception of sovereignty underpinning contemporary borders.
Chair:
- Professor Cathryn Costello, UCD & Matrix
Speakers:
- Professor E Tendayi Achiume, Stanford Law & former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
- Professor Bridget Anderson, Director, Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Bella Mosselmans, Director, Global Strategic Litigation Council, Zolberg Institute, the New School, New York
Register here.