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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 3d

“Regulation protects companies that innovate thoughtfully and responsibly by preventing companies that don't from having an unfair advantage." Daniel Solove, UCPH, 6 October 2025

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 3d

🎤"We steer innovation through the law – we don't stop it." @daniel-solove.bsky.social

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 3d

⏰🍽️ TODAY: Why not make your Monday lunch break a little more interesting?

Feed your brain this lunchtime with a feast of insight on privacy, AI, and the future of law with Daniel Solove 🧠

💡 Join the conversation online or in Copenhagen!

MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 16d

⚡Tech moves fast. Can the law really keep up?

Privacy law expert @daniel-solove.bsky.social has answers.

📅6 October, 13:00 CET – Book talk + live Q&A
📍 Online or in person

More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

✨Save your spot & join the conversation!

#PrivacyLaw #AIandLaw #FutureOfLaw

Book Launch and Q&A with Daniel Solove

Hear from the world’s leading expert on privacy law

mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 15d

@kdorostkar.bsky.social

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 15d

We’re excited to welcome our new visiting researcher, Keyvan Dorostkar (UNSW Sydney) 🎉

Tomorrow, 25Sept (14:00–15:15), Keyvan will host an Open Lab:
“Re-Conceptualising the Relationship Between Fairness and Efficiency in Asylum Procedures”

Join in person or online mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 15d

🗓️ Tomorrow, 2pm – Open Lab at MOBILE!

Visiting PhD scholar Keyvan Dorostkar (@kaldorcentre.bsky.social) will challenge the long-held idea that restrictive asylum procedures are needed to ensure efficiency.

Interested? Drop by! 👇
mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Keyvan Dorostkar

Re-Conceptualising the Relationship Between Fairness and Efficiency in Asylum Procedures

mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 15d

@dg.dk

MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 16d

⚡Tech moves fast. Can the law really keep up?

Privacy law expert @daniel-solove.bsky.social has answers.

📅6 October, 13:00 CET – Book talk + live Q&A
📍 Online or in person

More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

✨Save your spot & join the conversation!

#PrivacyLaw #AIandLaw #FutureOfLaw

Book Launch and Q&A with Daniel Solove

Hear from the world’s leading expert on privacy law

mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 27d

Such a pleasure hosting and listening to Ettore Recchi’s groundbreaking research on human mobility. @mobileucph.bsky.social

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 20d

New publication! lnkd.in/denzpZTD
“Waves of Securitisation - The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, 1960–2022”, by Luuk van der Baaren (MOBILE/UCPH), Maria Gerdes (Goethe University) and Maarten Vink (EUI), is out now in the Statelessness and Citizenship Review

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us for a presentation by Prof. Ettore Recchi on The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility.

12 Sept, 14:00 at MOBILE or online

Prof. Recchi will share his research on the patterns and dynamics of transnational human mobility.

Event details: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Ettore Recchi

The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility (1995-2022): Continuity, Change, and Inequality

mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 News flash! We’re welcoming another MOBILE visitor today: Paula Nimbriotis Manzur (PhD researcher, Universidad de Nebrija, Madrid).

Her work explores free movement regimes in the Global South, especially within the Andean Communities.

She’ll be with us until Halloween! 🎃

Welcome, Paula!

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Sean Rehaag @seanrehaag.bsky.social · Aug 13

Excellent new article involving an experiment in credibility assessments in trans refugee adjudication from folks at @mobileucph.bsky.social

Great job ‪@astajarlner.bsky.social‬ ‬& Maya Ellen Hertz!

doi.org/10.3389/fhum...

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Title: Trans "enough" for protection? Experimenting with credibility in refugee status determination
Authors: Maya Ellen Hertz & Asta Sofie Stage Jarlner
Abstract: Accessible version available open-access via link

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Aug 20

We're excited to welcome Dr Chiara Raucea (@tilburg-university.bsky.social) to the MOBILE Centre next week! 🎉

She’ll be with us through October, continuing her work on how legal status shapes access to rights – like how the right to private life may ground claims to naturalisation.

Stay tuned!

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Aug 12

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Liminal phases and electronic waste: Interrogating temporality in international law

This article examines the regulatory tensions that emerge from the temporal organisation of jurisdiction in international law, through the lens of transnational flows of waste electronic and electric...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to share a new publication by our PhD fellow Leonora Staerfeldt in the special issue of @recieljournal.bsky.social!

It reveals how international law’s temporal blind spots enable illegal e-waste to flow from high- to low-income countries – often disguised as legitimate reuse.

Link below ⬇️

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jul 21

New article article by @astajarlner.bsky.social and @sarah-scott-ford.bsky.social in Verfassungsblug, where they examine the Danish Supreme Court´s judgement concerning the non-penalization of refugees.

Read it here: verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-a...

The End of an (Unlawful) Era

verfassungsblog.de

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jun 20

@dg.dk

MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jun 20

🎓 Scholarship Opportunity for Masters Students!
Interested in migration, mobility & data? Write your thesis with us!

🧠 Real asylum case data from Denmark
📄 Publish a working paper
🪙 Monthly stipend
📅 Apply by 14 July 2025

More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2024/sc...

Please share!

Call for applications: Scholarships for master students

MOBILE is now accepting project proposals from full time master students who would like to write their thesis in collaboration with the center and work with large datasets of asylum case files.

mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jun 20

A huge thank you to the organisers and participants of the 2025 iCourts/MOBILE PhD Summer School 🧑‍⚖️✨

It’s been a fantastic week of invaluable methods training, insightful discussions and meaningful international connections.

A collage of photographs of the summer school participants.

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎉 Our own @whamiltonbyrne.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 John Jackson Prize! Huge congratulations! 🏆

His prizewinning article explores how legal academics shape international investment law through citation analysis and interviews with top arbitrators.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/jiel...

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ALT: a fireworks display with purple and green fireworks exploding in the night sky

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jun 16

@dg.dk

MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · Jun 16

We’re thrilled to share that our director
@tgammeltoft.bsky.social has been elected to the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

A well-deserved recognition of legal research that crosses borders and disciplines. 👏

More here: royalacademy.dk/author/thoma...

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · May 19

How do states use human rights law to push their migration agendas?

This Thursday at 2pm, Dr Janna Wessels dives into this – and more – with her research on reverse strategic litigation.

Join us in-person or via Zoom – see you there! ⬇️

mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

MOBILE – Mobility Law Open Lab with Janna Wessels

How states manipulate legal frameworks to serve their own migration policies

mobilitylaw.ku.dk

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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · May 12

⏰ This Thursday at 2pm:

Visiting PhD researcher Tehseen Jäger presents his work on the complex ties between immigration policies and the challenges migrants face in Europe's labour market.

Don't miss out!
mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...

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