Thursday, 17 May 2018
12.45 Registration
13.15 Introduction
Winfried Kluth (Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology, Department ‘Law & Anthropology’, Halle)
13.30 Humanitarian visas and the external dimension of EU migration and asylum law
Luc Leboeuf (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle)
14.00 Panel 1: Humanitarian visas and obligations under international and EU law
Chair: Burkhard Hess (Director of the MPI for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg)
Participants:
Dirk Hanschel (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Nico Mol ( Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg)
Stephanie Law (MPI for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, Luxembourg)
Sylvie Sarolea (University of Louvain)
16.15 Discussion
Thursday, 17 May – Evening
Venue: Aula of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
18:09 Introduction
Winfried Kluth (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Dirk Hanschel (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Keynote: ‘Mobility and Migration Diversity: New Horizons for Human Rights’
François Crépeau (McGill University, Montreal, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants)
Panel Discussion
Chair: Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle)
Participants:
François Crépeau (McGill University, Montreal, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants)
Daniel Thym (University of Konstanz)
Constantin Hruschka (MPI for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich)
Sylvie Sarolea (University of Louvain)
20.00 Dinner at restaurant ‘Delphi’
21.00 Wrap-up & Discussion
Friday, 18 May 2018
08.30 Making the case for the humanitarian visa
Tristan Wibault (Bar of Brussels)
09.00 Panel 2: National practices on humanitarian visas
Chair: Winfried Kluth (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Participants:
Pauline Endres de Oliveira (University of Giessen)
Serge Bodart (Council for Alien Law Litigation, Brussels)
Constantin Hruschka (MPI for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich)
Katia Bianchini (MPI for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen)
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Discussion
12.15 Lunch
13.00 What could be the role of humanitarian visas in the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum policy?
François Crépeau (McGill University, Montreal, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants)
13.30 Panel 3: Humanitarian visas and the future of the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum policy
Chair: Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle)
Participants:
Daniel Thym (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Michel Lastschenko (International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), Vienna; Former Ambassador of Belgium and Special Envoy on Asylum and Migration)
Karel Uyttendaele (Circular migration-project, Erondegem)
Sophie Nakueira (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
Catharina Ziebritzki (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg)
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Discussion
16.45 Conclusion
Jean-Yves Carlier (University of Louvain)
Luc Leboeuf (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle)