Joyce De Coninck
@deconinckjoyce.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow EUI - FWO post-doctoral researcher PIL/European law/IHRL @ GELI/GRILI/HRC Ghent Uni| Adjunct Professor EU Law NYU Law School 🐶🏃🏼♀️
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🎙️ In our new podcast, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social explains why Frontex has so far evaded accountability for severe human rights violations and discusses legal pathways for change. 🇪🇺🇪🇺
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/7zrbnam7
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/7zrbnam7
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🎙️ In our new podcast, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social explains why Frontex has so far evaded accountability for severe human rights violations and discusses legal pathways for change. 🇪🇺🇪🇺
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/7zrbnam7
🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/7zrbnam7
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Many thanks to the teams at @elpais.com @lemonde.fr @wearesolomon.bsky.social & @netzpolitik.org for making this story happen.
@lydiaemman.bsky.social @malichudis.bsky.social @supergalactica.bsky.social Iliana Papangeli & Maxime Vaudano.
netzpolitik.org/2025/gefluec...
@lydiaemman.bsky.social @malichudis.bsky.social @supergalactica.bsky.social Iliana Papangeli & Maxime Vaudano.
netzpolitik.org/2025/gefluec...
Geflüchtete und Aktivist:innen: Frontex schickte jahrelang unrechtmäßig Daten an Europol
Frontex hat jahrelang personenbezogene Daten gesammelt und unrechtmäßig an Europol weitergeleitet. Tausende Personen, darunter EU-Bürger:innen, die Geflüchtete unterstützen, gerieten durch groß angele...
netzpolitik.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Many thanks to the teams at @elpais.com @lemonde.fr @wearesolomon.bsky.social & @netzpolitik.org for making this story happen.
@lydiaemman.bsky.social @malichudis.bsky.social @supergalactica.bsky.social Iliana Papangeli & Maxime Vaudano.
netzpolitik.org/2025/gefluec...
@lydiaemman.bsky.social @malichudis.bsky.social @supergalactica.bsky.social Iliana Papangeli & Maxime Vaudano.
netzpolitik.org/2025/gefluec...
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Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...
EU’s Frontex Tripped in Its Plan for ‘Intrusive’ Surveillance of Migrants
Frontex and the European Commission sidelined their own data protection watchdogs in pursuing a much-criticised expansion of “intrusive” data collection from migrants and refugees to feed into Europol...
balkaninsight.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...
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Frontex revised its protocols after a probe by the EU data protection watchdog in May 2023. To Europol's chagrin, it is no longer passing data 'automatically'. But, crucially, Europol is refusing to confirm it will 'restrict' or 'delete' data - unlawfully shared by Frontex - as required by law.
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Frontex revised its protocols after a probe by the EU data protection watchdog in May 2023. To Europol's chagrin, it is no longer passing data 'automatically'. But, crucially, Europol is refusing to confirm it will 'restrict' or 'delete' data - unlawfully shared by Frontex - as required by law.
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Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases.
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police
In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...
www.lemonde.fr
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases.
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
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🎥 Check out our latest STALS video!
We discussed @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social’s (@eui-eu.bsky.social) book and shared some thoughts on its key themes. @lorgas.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMQ...
We discussed @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social’s (@eui-eu.bsky.social) book and shared some thoughts on its key themes. @lorgas.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMQ...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨'𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗚𝗮𝗽
YouTube video by STALS Sant'Anna Legal Studies
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July 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🎥 Check out our latest STALS video!
We discussed @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social’s (@eui-eu.bsky.social) book and shared some thoughts on its key themes. @lorgas.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMQ...
We discussed @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social’s (@eui-eu.bsky.social) book and shared some thoughts on its key themes. @lorgas.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Don’t forget to subscribe to the channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMQ...
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📚 Join us for this book launch!
🗓️ See you on 3 July
📩 For info and the participation link, contact: [email protected] @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @lorgas.bsky.social
🗓️ See you on 3 July
📩 For info and the participation link, contact: [email protected] @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @lorgas.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Join us!
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Please check it out in case you have ⏱️. Some friends already did & I can't say how grateful I am for your feedback. Academia is a communal project! @alonso-gd.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @julianascrv.bsky.social @sjorspolm.bsky.social @timozandstra.bsky.social @judithbauder.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Please check it out in case you have ⏱️. Some friends already did & I can't say how grateful I am for your feedback. Academia is a communal project! @alonso-gd.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @julianascrv.bsky.social @sjorspolm.bsky.social @timozandstra.bsky.social @judithbauder.bsky.social
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The article, written with @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, on Human Rights Respectful Trade, is available in the Berkeley Journal of International Law - a contribution to the debate about the role of human rights clauses in EU trade agreements #EU #humanrights #trade
lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/13134...
lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/13134...
Human Rights Respectful Trade
De Coninck, Joyce; Elsuwege, Peter Van
lawcat.berkeley.edu
April 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The article, written with @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, on Human Rights Respectful Trade, is available in the Berkeley Journal of International Law - a contribution to the debate about the role of human rights clauses in EU trade agreements #EU #humanrights #trade
lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/13134...
lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/13134...
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We woke up to the horrific news of the heaviest attacks in Palestine since the ceasefire. The devastation and human suffering are unimaginable—and only getting worse. Alongside 138 well-known Belgians, we speak up for Palestine.
#SpeakUpForPalestine
#SpeakUpForPalestine
March 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We woke up to the horrific news of the heaviest attacks in Palestine since the ceasefire. The devastation and human suffering are unimaginable—and only getting worse. Alongside 138 well-known Belgians, we speak up for Palestine.
#SpeakUpForPalestine
#SpeakUpForPalestine
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation in Yasuní National Park | Amazon Watch
“This judgment of the Inter-American Court is the result of many years of struggle and is a guarantee of the rights to territory for peoples in isolation, so that they can live without the threat of o...
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March 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation
amazonwatch.org/news/2025/03...
amazonwatch.org/news/2025/03...
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Also he should wear a suit while doing this
March 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Also he should wear a suit while doing this
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What – if any – are the consequences of the ‘instrumentalization of migration’ for human rights protection under the ECHR?
Strasbourg Observers published my thoughts on the arguments raised at Grand Chamber hearing on pushbacks to Belarus.
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/03/04/w...
Strasbourg Observers published my thoughts on the arguments raised at Grand Chamber hearing on pushbacks to Belarus.
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/03/04/w...
What – if any – are the consequences of the ‘instrumentalization of migration’ for human rights protection under the ECHR? A look at the arguments raised at the ECtHR Grand Chamber hearing on pushback...
By Grazyna Baranowska On 12 February 2025, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR held three hearings relating to pushback cases conducted by Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. The cases were relinquished to the G...
strasbourgobservers.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
What – if any – are the consequences of the ‘instrumentalization of migration’ for human rights protection under the ECHR?
Strasbourg Observers published my thoughts on the arguments raised at Grand Chamber hearing on pushbacks to Belarus.
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/03/04/w...
Strasbourg Observers published my thoughts on the arguments raised at Grand Chamber hearing on pushbacks to Belarus.
strasbourgobservers.com/2025/03/04/w...
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The CJEU will hold its first hearing on the Italy/Albania asylum treaty on Tuesday. My analysis of the legal issues: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
The Italy/Albania asylum treaty reaches the CJEU: what are the issues?
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Pudelek, via Wikimedia Commons Is the Italy/Albania dea...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The CJEU will hold its first hearing on the Italy/Albania asylum treaty on Tuesday. My analysis of the legal issues: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
Thank you sincerely @Globalisation and Law Network for the invitation and exciting conversation!
What an engaging and sharp community @maastrichtu.bsky.social !
What an engaging and sharp community @maastrichtu.bsky.social !
🤩 Here's a quick throwback to our seminar with Joyce De Coninck held on 6 February! Check out our new blog for insights from the engaging exchange between Joyce and our members: lnkd.in/eG28EdCn 🇪🇺 🌐
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Thank you sincerely @Globalisation and Law Network for the invitation and exciting conversation!
What an engaging and sharp community @maastrichtu.bsky.social !
What an engaging and sharp community @maastrichtu.bsky.social !
With many thanks to @verfassungsblog.de @Giulia Raimondo @Martin Lemberg-Pedersen @Jan-Hendrik Seelow and @Amanda Musco Eklund 🙏
My thoughts on the burden, standard and method of proof in #ARE, #GRJ; #WS; #Hamoudi; #RA; #HMM and #COCG before the Strasbourg and Luxembourg courts 🙏
My thoughts on the burden, standard and method of proof in #ARE, #GRJ; #WS; #Hamoudi; #RA; #HMM and #COCG before the Strasbourg and Luxembourg courts 🙏
Two months into 2025, Europe's courts have already dealt with 7 cases concerning pushbacks, with each case raising crucial questions of proof.
JOYCE DE CONINCK on the need for tailored rules of evidence in situations of procedural inequality.
verfassungsblog.de/binoculars-a...
JOYCE DE CONINCK on the need for tailored rules of evidence in situations of procedural inequality.
verfassungsblog.de/binoculars-a...
February 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Max Weber Fellow @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, alumni
@leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏
📖 Read the full edition here: ➡ loom.ly/eEdfP8Q
@leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏
📖 Read the full edition here: ➡ loom.ly/eEdfP8Q
February 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Max Weber Fellow @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, alumni
@leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏
📖 Read the full edition here: ➡ loom.ly/eEdfP8Q
@leticiadiezsanchez.bsky.social, Sarah Tas, Theodosia Stavroulaki, and @marcoalmada.com, as well as Prof. @competitionprof.bsky.social 🎓👏
📖 Read the full edition here: ➡ loom.ly/eEdfP8Q
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Check out the recording of our webinar on ”The absolute prohibition of refoulement and exceptional circumstances“ with Başak Çalı, @jameshathaway.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social and @mstille.bsky.social:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eMg...
Bonavero Report Launch: The Absolute Prohibition of Refoulement and Exceptional Circumstances
YouTube video by Oxford Law Faculty
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February 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Check out the recording of our webinar on ”The absolute prohibition of refoulement and exceptional circumstances“ with Başak Çalı, @jameshathaway.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social and @mstille.bsky.social:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eMg...
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We had Dr. Joyce De Coninck over this week at Utrecht University to talk to us about her book "The EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap." She lays out how difficult it is for (often vulnerable) people to get relief for violations of their fundamental rights caused by the EU & its agencies & bodies.
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We had Dr. Joyce De Coninck over this week at Utrecht University to talk to us about her book "The EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap." She lays out how difficult it is for (often vulnerable) people to get relief for violations of their fundamental rights caused by the EU & its agencies & bodies.
👩⚖️What.an.experience: blessed to have sat alongside the brilliant @Amanda Musco Eklund in representing Mr. Hamoudi in front of the CJEU’s Grand Chamber today.
Watch the hearing here: lnkd.in/ec2UM9C7
Watch the hearing here: lnkd.in/ec2UM9C7
Alaa’s team is ready for the historic Hamoudi v Frontex hearing:
Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.
Let’s win this case!
Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.
Let’s win this case!
February 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
👩⚖️What.an.experience: blessed to have sat alongside the brilliant @Amanda Musco Eklund in representing Mr. Hamoudi in front of the CJEU’s Grand Chamber today.
Watch the hearing here: lnkd.in/ec2UM9C7
Watch the hearing here: lnkd.in/ec2UM9C7
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Alaa’s team is ready for the historic Hamoudi v Frontex hearing:
Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.
Let’s win this case!
Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.
Let’s win this case!
February 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Alaa’s team is ready for the historic Hamoudi v Frontex hearing:
Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.
Let’s win this case!
Front-LEX litigation manager @iftachco.bsky.social, Amanda Musco-Eklund, Francesco Gatta, @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social, and of course Alaa.
Let’s win this case!
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🚀Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series🚀
We’re excited to welcome @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social to discuss:
📝 The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations
📅 6 Feb 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET
More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy
We’re excited to welcome @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social to discuss:
📝 The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations
📅 6 Feb 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET
More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy
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January 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🚀Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series🚀
We’re excited to welcome @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social to discuss:
📝 The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations
📅 6 Feb 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET
More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy
We’re excited to welcome @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social to discuss:
📝 The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations
📅 6 Feb 2025 | 11:00 - 12:30 CET
More info 👉 lnkd.in/euUzzaTy
🚨In 2021 I started the book proposal for the "EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap" (@hartpublishing.bsky.social ) @NYU as an Emile Noël Fellow with the wonderful @polatoja.bsky.social...now Thrilled to now discuss the book within the context of Pola's Jean Monnet Series!
📆 10/02
🌍 Amsterdam
📆 10/02
🌍 Amsterdam
Join the @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social book tour at her stop in Amsterdam at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social on 10 February 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨In 2021 I started the book proposal for the "EU's Human Rights Responsibility Gap" (@hartpublishing.bsky.social ) @NYU as an Emile Noël Fellow with the wonderful @polatoja.bsky.social...now Thrilled to now discuss the book within the context of Pola's Jean Monnet Series!
📆 10/02
🌍 Amsterdam
📆 10/02
🌍 Amsterdam
@eui-eu.bsky.social is here!
Hi there 👋, this is the blue sky over Florence, seen from the European University Institute!
We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life!
📲 @eui-eu.bsky.social
We’ve just landed here 🚀 and can’t wait to connect with all of you. Follow us to get the latest on research, events, and EUI campus life!
📲 @eui-eu.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
@eui-eu.bsky.social is here!
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In these days many of us are pondering over the meaning of life. Here's my take so far: 1/I have lived all my adult life as an eternal optimist and with the intention to do my share in making the world into a better place. To be a human rights law academic seemed a good choice of profession for that
January 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In these days many of us are pondering over the meaning of life. Here's my take so far: 1/I have lived all my adult life as an eternal optimist and with the intention to do my share in making the world into a better place. To be a human rights law academic seemed a good choice of profession for that