Rebecca Stern
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Law, Professors, Instructors, Researchers
- Email:
- Rebecca.Stern[AT-sign]jur.uu.se
- Telephone:
- +4618-471 7432
- Visiting address:
- Trädgårdsgatan 1 och 20, Västra Ågatan 26
- Postal address:
- Box 512
751 20 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in International Law. Main research interests include human rights, the human rights of children in particular, asylum law and the relationship and interaction between international and national law. Member of the steering group and former coordinatior of the Lund/Uppsala Migration Law Network L/UMIN (www.migrationlawnetwork.org).
Keywords: human rights child rights asylum law implementation international law migration law
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Biography
LL M 1998
Doctor of Laws, Public International Law 2006
Associate Professor, Public International Law 2014
Internal appointments
Steering committee member, Lund/Uppsala Migration Law Network (L/UMIN)
Member, Faculty of Law Election Committee
External appointments
Board member, Nordic Institute for Migration (NIM)
Board member, Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Board member, Institute for Future Studies
Awards
The Martin H:son Holmdahl Scholarship for the promotion of human rights and liberty 2014
Teaching
Democracy and Human Rights in a European Context (advanced course, Course Director)
Migration Law (advanced course, Course Director)
International Organisations (advanced course, teacher)
Human Rights, Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law (advanced course, teacher)
Term Course 6: Public Law, EU Law and International Law (teacher)
Doctoral supervision
Assistant supervisor for Maria Bexelius, Ignacio Vita and Isa Cegrell Karlander (Uppsala University), and Lisa Kerker (Lund University).
Research
Ongoing research projects
The Convention on the Rights of the Child as domestic law: does it make a difference for children seeking asylum? (2016-2020)
The main aim of the research project is to analyse the importance of the legal status of the CRC in domestic law for the implementation in practice of the right established by the Convention for asylum-seeking children. Focus lies in particular on the consequences of incorporation. The project is funded by the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation.
I am also currently working on a smaller project on the interpretation of Article 3 of the ECHR in the context of non-refoulement and health cases.
Previous research projects (selected):
- Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - how is this adressed and explained by State parties and the CRC Committee? Partly financed by the Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child, Stockholm University. (2015-2017)
- Is it for real? Testing the genuine nature of a conviction or orientation in the context of the asylum process. Funded by the European Refugee Fund and the Swedish Migration Agency. (2013-2015)
- Overlapping protection or conflicting rules? A study of the concept of subsidiary protection in the context of Swedish law, EU law and international law. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. (2010-2012)
- What does it take to be granted protection and which protection ground should be selected? Funded by the European Refugee Fund and the Swedish Migration Agency. (2010-2011).
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