Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax, LLB/LLM (Murcia); MA (College of Europe); PGCert (ULB); PhD (Louvain); PGCAP (Queen Mary); FHEA

Profile

Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax is Full Professor of Law (on special leave), specialising in international and EU law at the intersection with migration, border violence, and security. She is the founder of the Immigration Law programme and the founder and inaugural director of the interdisciplinary Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Migration and Displacement: (B)OrderS. At Queen Mary, she has equally co-founded and served as inaugural co-director of the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA) (2014-18). Professor Moreno-Lax is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, where she teaches a course on the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Internal and External Aspects; legal adviser and founding member of de:border | migration justice collective, focusing on strategic litigation in the area of border violence and migration; and founder and coordinator of the SAROBMED: The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean, a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, award-winning consortium documenting and analysing human rights violations at sea occurring during interdiction/rescue operations. Professor Moreno-Lax also serves as Co-Chair of The European Law Observatory; as member of the Advisory Board of Equal Rights Beyond Borders; as member of the Steering Committee of the Migration and Law Network; has been Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London since 2018; and sits in the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Migration and Law. As a world-leading expert in EU and international refugee and migration law, she regularly consults for UN agencies, the EU institutions, and other organisations worldwide. She has published widely in these areas, including her monograph: Accessing Asylum Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights Under EU Law (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Professor Moreno-Lax currently holds a prestigious Ramón y Cajal Senior Fellowship grant (2022-27), awarded by the Spanish government to top scientists, that she is implementing at the University of Barcelona. She has held academic appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Liverpool, and Louvain-la-Neuve, and research fellowships at the Jean Monnet Centre of NYU (Global Senior Emile Noël Fellowship, 2024), the European University Institute (Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship, 2021), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Directors’ Grant, 2018), and The Hague Academy of International Law (Centre for Studies and Research, 2010). She has held visiting positions at the Universities of Cagliari (2024), Pompeu Fabra: IBEI (2023), Ghent: European Law Institute (2019), Macquarie Law School (2017), New South Wales: Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (2017), Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre (2010-12), and Nijmegen: Centre for Migration Law (2009-10).

For further details on her publications consult her SSRN and Academia pages.

For information on the (B)OrderS Centre activities consult the dedicated website, mailing list, and YouTube playlist.

Undergraduate Teaching

• LAW5105 Law of the European Union

Postgraduate Teaching

• SOLM171 International Refugee Law (30 credits) Semester 1 (convenor)
• SOLM264 International Migration Law (30 credits) Semester 1 (convenor)
• SOLM177 Migration and Asylum Law through Practice (30 credits) Semester 2 (convenor)

Research

Professor Moreno-Lax is generally interested in:

• International and European refugee law and critical migration, borders, and security studies;
• Public international law, especially the study of jurisdiction, responsibility of States and international organisations, the law of the sea, and the law of treaties;
• EU law, with a particular focus on constitutional foundations and general principles, external relations and the external aspects of border and migration policy, EU citizenship, the free movement of persons, and justice and home affairs at large;
• Human rights, including regional systems of protection and the philosophical foundations of individual liberties

Research projects

Professor Moreno-Lax leads / is involved in several collaborative and externally funded research projects, including:

• SHARED: Shared Responsibility for Human Rights at the EU External Border Project (2022-24): consortium of academic and non-academic partners, including the (B)OrderS Centre of Queen Mary University of London, the Institute of Public Law (IDP) and the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Migration (GESDI) of the University of Barcelona, and the offices of six Members of the European Parliament: Tineke Strik & Erik Marquardt (Greens), Cornelia Ernst & Malin Björk (The Left), and Birgit Sippel & Juan Fernando López Aguilar (Chair) (S&D). Main outputs of the project are the Joint Guidelines on Shared Responsibility, produced collaboratively between academics, practitioners, and policy makers, and an international conference at the University of Barcelona. A Special Issue of a top journal is planned by the end of 2024. [Principal Investigator]
• Blurred Borders Project (2021): Seed-funding by the University of Melbourne, School of Social and Political Sciences, to compare border extraterritorialisation policies in Europe and Australia and their impact on rights and civil society to consolidate research networks and build up a large grant bid. [Partner Investigator]
• MAPS: Migration and Asylum Policy Systems Project (2018-22): gathered 10 European universities under the coordination of L’Orientale University of Naples, providing analysis of policy and legal changes with significance for migration and asylum at national level and EU-wide. The project was funded as a Jean Monnet Network. The Queen Mary team, organised the 2020 Conference: Conflicting Responses to Refugees and Migra​nts in Covid-19 Europe. Outputs include two Special Issues co-edited with Niovi Vavoula in the International Journal of Law in Context and the International Community Law Review. [Leading Team]
• Constructing Legal Orders in Europe Project (2017-21): leading to a Research Handbook on General Principles in EU Law co-edited with Katja Ziegler and Paivi Neuvonen, published by Edward Elgar, and an international workshop involving 50 academics leading the field, funded by the EU Jean Monnet Fund, the British Academy, and the Jean Monnet Activities Fund. [co-Principal Investigator]
• SAROBMED: The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean (2017-19): was established as an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder, trans-national collaboration of (16) academic researchers and (15) civil society actors to document and investigate human rights violations against “boat migrants” and NGOs undertaking rescue at sea. Results have led to multiple publications resulting from the analysis of the incidents recorded, appearances at international conferences, evidence given at national and international institutions, and strategic litigation initiated on the basis of the material collected. The project outputs include articles in the Journal of Common Market Studies, the German Law Journal, and The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, and a database documenting nearly 100 cases of human rights violations perpetrated at sea in the course, or as a result, of interdiction / rescue operations, witnessed directly by civil society organisations, since the outbreak of the “refugee crisis”. The project was supported by the Queen Mary HSS Strategic Impact and Collaboration funds in partnership with the European Parliament. [Principal Investigator] [recipient of the 2019 QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Award: “Interact” category]
• Odysseus Monnet Network for Immigration and Asylum (OMNIA) (2015-19): led by the ODYSSEUS Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, undertaking different activities, including the Annual Policy Conference on immigration and asylum in the EU. [Queen Mary Lead]
• The Law of Search and Rescue: Assessing International and National Practice and Policy to Enhance Migration Law Project (2016-18): comparing EU and Australian law and policy regarding search and rescue and migration control, funded by a Macquarie Research Development Grant, leading to several research outputs, including the expert conferences All at Sea: Comparative Perspectives on Pushing Back Boats, co-hosted by Macquarie Law School and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW, and Death at Sea and the Securitisation of Search and Rescue, co-funded by the Strategic Impact Fund of Queen Mary, as well as peer-reviewed articles in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the Leiden Journal of International Law. [Leading Team]
• Securitising Asylum Flows Project (2016-20): included the 2016 Conference of the Migration and Law Network, 'Europe’s crisis: What Future for Immigration Law and Policy?' hosted by Queen Mary Law School and leading to an edited collection with the same title, co-edited with Valsamis Mitsilegas and Niovi Vavoula, published by Brill. [co-Principal Investigator].
• Beyond Pluralism: Embeddedness and Co-implication between Public International Law and EU Law Project (2014-16): funded by the Law Department of Queen Mary University of London, as CEILA/CLSGC 2014-15 Annual Seminar Series, leading to a Special Issue of the Oxford Yearbook of European Law, co-edited with Paul Gragl. [co-Principal Investigator]
• Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Migrants’ Rights in the Mediterranean: JMCEMigrants (2015-17): coordinated by L’Orientale University of Naples, and leading to different outputs, including the annual Open Doors Summer School and the Charter of Naples: The Way Forward to Deal with Migration in the Mediterranean Sea. [Affiliated Scholar]
• ‘Boat Refugees’ and Migrants at Sea Project (2013-16): involving a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, experts, and practitioners from all over the world, coordinated by Queen Mary Law School and the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, co-funded by the UACES Small Grants Scheme (2013-14) and the Human Rights Consortium (2014-15), leading to a collected volume with the same title, co-edited with Efthymios Papastavridis, published by Brill. [co-Principal Investigator]
• Accessing Asylum in Europe Project (2010-12): funded by Fundación Caja Madrid (2010-11) and Fundación Rafael del Pino (2011-12), leading to a monograph with the same title, published by Oxford University Press. [Principal Investigator]
• Forced Migration and Law of the Sea Project (2011): funded by the Exploratory Research Grant Scheme of the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, leading to an expert workshop co-convened with Irini Papanicolopoulou, hosted by All Souls College. [co-Principal Investigator]
• International Migration Policy and Law Analysis: IMPALA Project (2008-12): regrouping several institutions, including LSE, Harvard University, and Sydney Law School, leading to several research outputs including the IMPALA Database. [Researcher]
• Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest: REFGOV Project (2005-10): funded by the Framework Programme 6 of the European Commission, co-ordinated by the University of Louvain, and leading to multiple research outputs, including the collected volume Human Rights in the Web of Governance, co-edited with Olivier De Schutter, published by Bruylant. [Researcher]

Publications

Books and monographs

• Accessing Asylum in Europe: Extraterritorial Border Controls and Refugee Rights under EU Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 624 pp. [cited by CJEU]
  • Reviews
  • Moreno-Lax has written one of the key texts on EU migration and asylum law for the years to come. Her steady defence of rights as "practical and effective" and "not theoretical and illusory" (p. 477) and, more importantly, the way such defence is conducted through impeccable legal analysis of the instruments adopted by the EU itself, is already having an impact beyond academia and will be at the centre of policy debates in the future. - Diego Acosta, Common Market Law Review
  • An imaginative, heterodox work that challenges the foundations of the field. - Gleider Hernández, European Journal of International Law
  • Moreno-Lax convincingly argues that the currently dominant interpretation which denies her conclusion is flawed and internally inconsistent on many levels. The systematic and sustained way in which she does so is an achievement. - Thomas Spijkerboer, European Law Review
  • Violeta Moreno-Lax contributes to the multidisciplinary debate on asylum and refugees by offering a deeper insight into the right to asylum, and particularly into the relationship between the right to receive protection and the mechanisms of border control. - Daniela Irrera, Journal of Common Market Studies

Edited collections

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of European Law: The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Moreno-Lax and Vavoula (eds), (Oxford: Oxford University Press), (in progress).
• Research Handbook on General Principles in EU Law: Constructing Legal Orders in Europe, Ziegler, Neuvonen, and Moreno-Lax (eds), (Edward Elgar, 2022), 625 pp.
• Securitising Asylum Flows: Deflection, Criminalisation and Challenges for Human Rights, Mitsilegas, Moreno-Lax, and Vavoula (eds), (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020), 338 pp.
• ‘Boat Refugees’ and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach. Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights, Moreno-Lax and Papastavridis (eds), (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), 462 pp. [cited by CJEU]
• Human Rights in the Web of Governance: Towards a learning-based fundamental rights policy for the European Union, De Schutter and Moreno-Lax (eds), (Brussels: Bruylant, 2010), 322 pp.

Edited journal special issues

• Law, Migration and Vulnerability: From the Margins to the Centre, V. Moreno-Lax and N. Vavoula (eds), MAPS Special Issue, (2024) 20 International Journal of Law in Context 1-116.
• Regime Interaction in the Regulation of “Unwanted Migration”: From Hostility to Emancipation, V. Moreno-Lax and N. Vavoula (eds), MAPS Special Issue, (2022) 24(4) International Community Law Review 285-417.
• Beyond Pluralism: Co-implication, Embeddedness and Interdependency between Public International Law and EU Law, Moreno-Lax and P. Gragl (eds), CEILA Special Issue, (2016) 35(1) Oxford Yearbook of European Law 455-711.

Peer-reviewed articles

• ‘Crisis as (Asylum) Governance: The Evolving Normalisation of Non-Access to Protection in the EU’, (2024) European Papers (forthcoming) 25 pp.
• ‘EU Constitutional Dismantling through Strategic Informalisation: Soft Readmission Governance as Concerted Dis-integration’, (2024) 30(1) European Law Journal (forthcoming) 38 pp.
• ‘Meta-Borders and The Rule of Law: From Externalisation to Responsibilisation in Systems of Contactless Control’, (2024) 71(1) Netherlands International Law Review (forthcoming) 29 pp. [invited opening piece of Special Issue]
• (with Vavoula), ‘Vulnerability’s Legal Life: An Ambivalent Force of Migration Governance’, (2024) 20 International Journal of Law in Context 1-15.
• (with Vavoula), ‘The (Many) Rules and Roles of Law in the Regulation of “Unwanted Migration”’, (2022) 24(4) International Community Law Review 285-291.
• (with GLAN and Forensic Oceanography teams) ‘Documenting and Litigating against the Shifting Practices of Refoulement across the EU’s Maritime Frontier’ (2021) 4 ASYL: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Asylrecht und -praxis 13-17.
• ‘The Architecture of Functional Jurisdiction: Unpacking Contactless Control – On Public Powers, S. and Others v. Italy, and the “Operational Model”’, (2020) 21(3) German Law Journal 385-416. [Top Most Read GLJ Article April 2020 – June 2022] [reprinted in Cataldi, Del Guercio, and Liguori (eds), Migration and Asylum Policy Systems: Challenges and Perspectives (Editoriale Scientifica, 2020) 183-239].
• (with Ghezelbash and Klein) ‘Between Life, Security and Rights: Framing the Interdiction of “Boat Migrants” in the Central Mediterranean and Australia’, (2019) 32(4) Leiden Journal of International Law 715-740.
• (with Lemberg-Pedersen) ‘Border-induced Displacement: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Distance-creation through Externalization’ (2019) 56 Questions of International law 5-33. [invited opening piece of Special Issue]
• (with Ghezelbash and Klein) ‘Securitization of Search and Rescue at Sea: The Response to “Boat Migration” in the Mediterranean and Offshore Australia’, (2018) 67(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 315-351.
• ‘The EU Humanitarian Border and the Securitization of Human Rights: The “Rescue-through-Interdiction / Rescue-without-Protection” Paradigm’, (2018) 56(1) Journal of Common Market Studies 119-140. [JCMS Diploma: Top Downloaded Article in 2018]
• ‘Solidarity’s Reach: Meaning, Dimensions and Implications for EU (External) Asylum Policy’, (2017) 24(5) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 740-762. [included in UNHCR Global Compact consultations]
• (with Gragl) ‘The Quest for a Theoretical Framework: Co-implication, Embeddedness and Interdependency between EU Law and Public International Law’, (2016) 35(1) Oxford Yearbook of European Law 455-470.
• ‘Systematising Systemic Integration: “War Refugees”, Regime Relations, and a Proposal for a Cumulative Approach to Int’l Commitments’, (2014) 12(5) Journal of Int’l Criminal Justice 907-929. [Selected for JICJ Young Scholar Prize]
• ‘Hirsi v Italy - the Strasbourg Court v Extraterritorial Migration Control?’ (2012) 12 Human Rights Law Rev 574-598.
• ‘Dismantling the Dublin System: S.S. v Belgium & Greece’, (2012) 14(1) European Journal of Migration Law 1-31.
• ‘Beyond Saadi v UK: Why the “Unnecessary” Detention of Asylum Seekers is Inadmissible under EU Law’, (2011) 5(2) Human Rights and International Legal Discourse 166-206.
• ‘Seeking Asylum in the Mediterranean: Against a Fragmentary Reading of EU Member States’ Obligations Accruing at Sea’, (2011) 23(2) International Journal of Refugee Law 174-220. [cited by CJEU]
• ‘The EU Regime on Interdiction, Search and Rescue, and Disembarkation: The Frontex Guidelines for Intervention at Sea’, (2010) 25(4) The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 621-635.
• ‘Must EU Borders Have Doors for Refugees? On the Compatibility of Visas & Carrier Sanctions with States’ Obligations to Provide Protection to Refugees’, (2008) 10(3) European Journal of Migration Law 315-364. [cited by CJEU]
• ‘Cuestiones acerca de la dignidad del hombre’, (2001) 19 Anales de Derecho de la Universidad de Murcia 249-258.
• ‘Solutions de paix (abolition de la peine de prison)’, (2001) 19 Anales de Derecho de la Universidad de Murcia 235-248.

Book chapters

• ‘The Necropolitics of Saving Lives and Preventing Migrant Deaths: Objective 8’, in Chetail (ed.), The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, (Oxford: OUP, 2024) (forthcoming).
• ‘The “Crisification” of Migration Law: Insights from the EU External Border’, in Cope, Burch Elias, and Goldenizel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (Oxford: OUP, 2024) (in print) 32 pp..
• ‘The Informalisation of the External Dimension of EU Asylum Policy: The Hard Implications of Soft Law’, in Tsourdi and De Bruycker (eds), Research Handbook on EU Immigration and Asylum Law (Edward Elgar, 2022) 282-304.
• (with Ziegler) ‘“Autonomy” of the EU Legal Order - A General Principle? On the Risks of Normative Functionalism and Selective Constitutionalisation’, in Ziegler, Neuvonen and Moreno-Lax (eds), General Principles in EU Law: Constructing Legal Orders in Europe, (Edward Elgar, 2022) 227-252.
• (with Ziegler and Neuvonen), ‘Introduction’, in Ziegler, Neuvonen and Moreno-Lax (eds), General Principles in EU Law: Constructing Legal Orders in Europe, (Edward Elgar, 2022) 1-5.
• ‘Towards a Thousand Little Morias: The EU (Non-)Rescue Scheme - Criminalising Solidarity, Structuralising Defection’, in Thym (ed.), Reforming the Common European Asylum System (Nomos, 2022) 161-186.
• ‘Protection at Sea and the Denial of Asylum’, in Costello, Foster, and McAdam (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (Oxford: OUP, 2021) 483-501.
• ‘Mutual (Dis-)Trust in EU Migration and Asylum Law: The Exceptionalisation of Fundamental Rights’, in González Pascual and Iglesias Sánchez (eds), Fundamental Rights in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Cambridge: CUP, 2021) 77-99. [translated into Spanish in ‘La (des)confianza mutua en el sistema europeo común de inmigración y asilo: la excepcionalización de los derechos fundamentales’, in Abrisqueta Uriarte (ed.), Las políticas de asilo de la Unión Europea: convergencias entre la dimensión interna y externa (Aranzadi Thomson Reuters, 2021)].
• ‘Intersectionality, Forced Migration and the Jus-generation of the Right to Flee: Theorizing the Composite Entitlement to Leave to Escape Irreversible Harm’, in Çalı, Bianku and Motoc (eds), Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford: OUP, 2021) 43-83.
• ‘The Axiological Emancipation of a (Non-)Principle: Autonomy, International Law and the EU Legal Order’, in Govaere and Garben (eds), The Interface Between EU and International Law (Oxford: Hart, 2019) 45-72.
• (with Giuffré) ‘The Rise of Consensual Containment: From “Contactless Control” to “Contactless Responsibility” for Migratory Flows’, in Juss (ed.), Research Handbook on International Refugee Law (Edward Elgar, 2019) 81-108 [included in UNHCR Global Compact consultations]
• ‘Introduction to G.S. Goodwin-Gill: The Refugee in International Law (Clarendon Press, 1983)’, in Barrett and Gauci (eds), British Influences on International Law: Anthology (BIICL/Martinus Nijhoff, 2019) 2021-2044.
• (with Papastavridis) ‘The Bases of a New Paradigm’, in Moreno-Lax and Papastavridis (eds), ‘Boat Refugees’ and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016), 1-16.
• ‘The Legality of the “Safe Third Country” Notion Contested: Insights from the Law of Treaties’, in Goodwin-Gill and Weckel (eds), Migration & Refugee Protection in the 21^st Century: Legal Aspects - The Hague Academy of International Law Centre for Research (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2015) 665-721 [included in UNHCR Global Compact consultations].
• (with Garlick), ‘The Qualification Directive’, in Peers, Moreno-Lax, Garlick and Guild (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, 2^nd, Vol. 3 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015) 65-210. [cited by CJEU]
• (with Guild), ‘The Reception Conditions Directive’, in Peers, Moreno-Lax, Garlick and Guild (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, 2^nd, Vol. 3 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015) 497-570.
• ‘The External Dimension of the Common EU Asylum System’, in Peers, Moreno-Lax, Garlick and Guild (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, 2^nd, Vol. 3 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015) 617-674. [cited by European Parliament]
• (with Costello), ‘The Extraterritorial Application of the Charter: From Territoriality to Facticity’, in Peers et al. (eds), Commentary on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 1657-1683. [cited by CJEU]
• ‘Of Autonomy, Autarky, Purposiveness and Fragmentation: The Relationship between EU Asylum Law and International Humanitarian Law’, in Durieux and Cantor (eds), Refuge from Inhumanity: Enriching Refugee Protection through Humanitarian Law (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2014) 295-341. [included in EUAA’s judicial training module]
• ‘Life after Lisbon: EU Asylum Policy as a Factor of Migration Control’, in Acosta and Murphy (eds), EU Justice and Security Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 146-167.
• ‘Frontex as a Global Actor: External Relations with Third Countries and International Organisations’, in Dony (ed.), The External Dimension of the Area of FSJ (Brussels: ULBPress, 2012) 163-184.
• ‘Carrier Sanctions’, in Peers, Guild, Acosta, Groenendijk and Moreno-Lax (eds), EU Immigration and Asylum Law, 2^nd, Vol. 2 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012) 336-356.
• ‘The External Dimension of the Common European Asylum System after Stockholm’, in Gortázar Rotaeche et al. (eds), European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction? (Brussels: Bruylant, 2012) 103-112.
• ‘(Extraterritorial) Entry Controls and (Extraterritorial) Non-Refoulement in EU Law’, in Maes, Foblets and De Bruycker (eds), The External Dimensions of EU Asylum and Immigration Policy (Brussels: Bruylant, 2011) 385-451.

Invited op-eds and editorials

• ‘Solidarity Crimes, Legitimacy Limits’, Special Section: Rethinking the Law and Politics of Migration (Verfassungsblog, Feb. 2024).
• Invited Editorial, ‘Towards the Full Recognition of the Human Right to Flee’, (2021) 4 ASYL: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Asylrecht und -praxis 2-3.
• ‘From Complementary to “Primary” Pathways to Asylum’, Forced Migration Review (Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, 2021) 21-22.
• A New Common European Approach to Search and Rescue? OMNIA Network (EU Migration Law Blog, 3 Feb. 2021).
• ‘“It’s an Act of Murder”: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown’ (with Heller, Pezzani, Mann, Weizman), The New York Times, 26 Dec. 2018.
• Time to Investigate European Agents for Crimes against Migrants in Libya (with Mann & Shatz) (EJILTalk! 29 March 2018).
• Stopping the Boats is a Futile, Cynical Exercise (published across Fairfax sites: The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, Brisbane Times and WA Today) 2 May 2017.
• Asylum Visas as an Obligation under EU law: X, X v Belgium, OMNIA Network (EU Migration Law Blog, 16 Feb. 2017 and 21 Feb. 2017).
• ‘An Asylum Spring in the New Libya?’ (with Durieux and Sharpe), Forced Migration Review (Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, 2012).

Supervision

Prof. Moreno-Lax welcomes proposals for doctoral supervision in the fields of EU and international law, migration and refugee studies, border violence, security, and human rights.

Professor Moreno-Lax is currently supervising:

• Ceren Mutus Toprakseven (part time) [2015 QMUL HSS Open Studentship Awardee]. Thesis: Shared Responsibility in the Context of Extraterritorialised / Privatised Migration Controls.
• Marta Minetti [2018 GTA Law Department]. Thesis: The Application of Different Legal Devices by the Italian Prosecutors in the Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of Migrants.
• Ellen Allde [2021 Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar]. Thesis: Law in Resistance: An Intersectional Critique of the Humanitarianism and Exceptionalism of Borders/camps
• Merna Nasralla [2021 GTA Law Department]. Thesis: Outsourcing Pain: The Externalization of Border Control Measures through the Italy-Libya Deal

PhD projects supervised to completion:

• Malak Benslama-Dabdoub [2019 QMUL HSS Open Studentship Awardee]. Thesis: ‘Nationality and Statelessness in International Law: A De-colonial Perspective on Syrian asylum-seekers in the UK and France'. Viva: 2023. Currently: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law, Royal Holloway, University of London.
• Muhammet Zeybek [2018 GTA Law Department]. Thesis: Is There a Fair-Sharing Principle in International Refugee Law? Viva: 2022. Currently: Judge, Turkey.
• Maja Grundler [2018 Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar]. Thesis: Protection for Irregularized Migrants? – Trafficking, Smuggling and Asylum. Viva: 2022. Currently: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law, Royal Holloway, University of London.
• Nicolette Busuttil [2016 QMUL HSS Open Studentship Awardee]. Thesis: To Protect, Tolerate or Expel? International Protection Obligations towards Migrants with Psychosocial Disabilities Facing Removal. Viva: 2022. Currently: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law, SOAS, University of London.
• Kathryn Alinson [2016 QMUL HSS Open Studentship Awardee]. Thesis: Causing Forced Displacement: An Inquiry into 'Displacing Third State' Responsibility. Viva: 2021. Currently: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law, University of Bristol.

Public Engagement

Professor Moreno-Lax regularly acts as expert consultant and legal advisor for governmental and non-governmental organisations active in the area of refugee and migrant rights, border violence, and access to asylum. She is also regularly invited to deliver expert opinions and keynote addresses in her areas of expertise and is happy to respond to media requests, including by email, LinkedIn, and X @ProfMorenoLax.

Strategic litigation, expert studies and briefing papers

• Commissioned Study, ‘Does the EU have Search and Rescue Obligations of its Own?’, SIEPS European Policy Analysis (Stockholm: Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, 2024) in progress.
• Commissioned study (with Wolff), ‘A Search and Rescue Initiative for the Mediterranean’, German Government (Berlin: Federal Foreign Office, 2024) in progress.
• Expert opinion, ‘The New Pact on Migration and Asylum and Human Rights: Continued Hypocrisy to Outright Dehumanisation?’, Migration Policy and The European Union (European Court of Auditors, 2023), pp. 106-111.
• Expert opinion, ‘The Applicability of Human Rights obligations under Spanish, European and ECHR Law in the Melilla Exclave’, Lab38 Barcelona, as part of legal proceedings in the Audiencia Nacional regarding the ‘Melilla Massacre’ of 2022, submitted 16 Jun. 2023.
  • [Coverage: RTVE: 'La tragedia de la valla de Melilla un año después', El País: Cinco ONG presentan una querella por la tragedia de Melilla, Público: 'Cinco organizaciones presentan una querella para que vuelva a investigarse la tragedia de Melilla', El Diario.es: 'Cinco ONG presentan una querella por la tragedia de Melilla', El Confidencial: 'Melilla, un año después: 77 desaparecidos, informes contradictorios y solo una víctima identificada', La Vanguardia, Europa Press: 'Ortiz evita polemizar con las ONG que ven "insuficientes" sus pesquisas sobre la tragedia del 24J en la valla de Melilla']
• Expert opinion, ‘Towards A Human-Rights Compliant SAR Culture in the Mediterranean’, Conclusions of High-level Roundtable on ‘Search & Rescue in the Central Mediterranean’ (Berlin: German Federal Foreign Office, 30 May 2023).
• Legal application to European Court of Human Rights denouncing Greek practice of ‘racialised pushbacks’ affecting EU citizens in D.G. v. Turkey, submitted jointly with FrontLEX, 18 Feb. 2022.
  • [Coverage: Associated Press: 'From Turkish jail, French woman accuses Greece of ‘pushback’', Washington Post, ABCNews, Mediapart: 'Migrants : la Grèce refoule une Française vers la Turquie', featured in Queen Mary News: 'Greece accused of violating European citizen rights and forcing people fleeing persecution back across the border in landmark legal case']
• Submission to the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya on the EU and Member States’ Responsibilities for Libyan Abuses against Migrants on behalf of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) (with Azarova and Magugliani) (GLAN, 2021).
• Commissioned study (with Allsopp, Tsourdi, De Bruycker, and De Leo), The EU Approach on Migration in the Mediterranean, PE 694.413 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2021)
• Commissioned Study, EU External Migration Policy and the Protection of Human Rights, PE 603.512 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2020).
• Legal application to the UN Human Rights Committee denouncing Italian practice of ‘privatised refoulement’ calling on merchant vessels to push migrants back to Libya in the case of S.D.G. v. Italy or The Nivin Case, presented at a public event and press conference on 18 December 2019 at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
  • [Coverage by France24: 'Italy faces complaint at UN over 'abusive' Libya asylum returns', La Repubblica: 'Migranti, un report accusa l'Italia: "Respingimento illegale dei 93 salvati dal mercantile Nivin e riportati in Libia con la forza"', Huffington Post: 'Respingimenti in Libia, Italia denunciata all'Onu', Sky: 'Italia denunciata all'Onu per i respingimenti di migranti in Libia', and La Vanguardia: 'Denuncian a Italia por "privatizar" las devoluciones a Libia y fomentar el abuso de migrantes']
• Commissioned Study and Model Convention, A Model Instrument for an Emergency Evacuation Visa (International Bar Association, July 2019).
• Legal application to European Court of Human Rights denouncing Greece’s criminalisation of rescue at sea by NGO Team Humanity in case Salam Aldeen v. Greece, announced via Press Release on 18 April 2019.
  • [Coverage by Stonisi: 'Στο Ευρωπαϊκό Δικαστήριο Aνθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων η Ελλάδα', La Repubblica, Diario16: 'Llevan a Estrasburgo la represión de la UE contra los barcos que rescatan personas en el mar', and featured in Queen Mary News: 'Queen Mary academic calls for policy change on the rescue of refugees'].
• Expert assessment, Greens Policy proposal: Bring Them Here: Ending Offshore Detention (Parliamentary Budget Office of Australia, January 2019).
• Commissioned Study, Annex I: Legal Aspects [pp. 23-124] European Added Value Assessment accompanying the European Parliament’s legislative own-initiative report (Rapp. Lopez Aguilar) on Humanitarian Visas, (Brussels: European Parliament, 2018).
  • [Successful petition to the Plenary of the European Parliament for adoption of related motion on humanitarian visas supported by 172 academics, featured in Queen Mary News: 'Humanitarian visa campaign led by Queen Mary academic is approved by the European Parliament'].
• Legal applications to the European Court of Human Rights denouncing Italian ‘pull backs’ executed by proxy via the Libyan Coast Guard in cases S.S. and Others v. Italy (Appl. 21660/18) and C.O. and A.J. v. Italy (Appl. 40396/18) announced via Press Conference in Rome on 8 May 2018 at the Foreign Press Association.
  • [Coverage by The New York Times, The Guardian, La Repubblica: Ultim'ora 15.28 Lazio, Maurizio Sarri si è dimesso Migranti, “La Guardia costiera libica respinge per conto dell’Italia e dell’Ue”, Euronews, El País: Italia, denunciada ante Estrasburgo por refozar a la Guardia Costera libia, Deutsche Welle, The Washington Post, Al-Jazeera: 'Lawyers pin blame for deaths of 20 migrants at sea on Italy', Reuters: 'Nigerian migrants sue Italy for aiding Libyan coast guard', Associated Press: 'Migrants accuse Italy of responsibility for Libyan abuses', and featured in Queen Mary News: 'Italy’s deal with Libya regarding migrant ‘pull-backs’ faces legal challenge'].
• Commissioned Training Foundation Course for Operational Officials [of the South-East Asia 45 Bali Process Member States], Comprehensive Approaches for Addressing Irregular Movements by Sea, (Regional Support Office to the Bali Process, in cooperation with IOM and UNHCR, 2017), 45 pp.
• Expert Opinion (with Gammeltoft-Hansen, Guild, Panizzon, and Roele), What is a Compact? Migrants’ Rights and State Responsibilities regarding the design of The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Lund: Raoul Wallenberg Institute of International Human Rights Law, 2017).
• Expert Opinion, “Nonsensical”, “Dishonest”, “Illegal”: the Italian SAR NGOs ‘Code of Conduct’, (Interview with Sea Watch, June 2017).
• Kaldor Centre Policy Brief, The interdiction of asylum seekers at sea: Law and (Mal)practice in Europe and Australia, (Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2017).
  • [Coverage by The Guardian: 'Asylum seeker boat turnbacks illegal and don't deter people, report finds', Yahoo! UK and Ireland: 'Asylum seeker boat turnbacks illegal and don't deter people, report finds', SBS Australia: 'Boat turnbacks are illegal and don't save lives, report claims', DPA International, Al Bawaba: Turning Away Refugee Boats is Illegal and doesn’t Save Lives: Report, Lawyers Weekly: 'Academics release scathing brief on asylum seeker policy', UK Human Rights Blog: 'The Round Up: Turning Back Asylum Seekers at Sea', The Monthly: 'An urgently needed compromise'].
• Commissioned Study (with Guild and Costello), The Implementation of the EU Relocation Scheme, PE 583.132 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2017).
• Study for the Red Cross EU Office, Europe in Crisis: Facilitating Access to International Protection, (Discarding) Offshore Processing and Alternatives for the Way Ahead, (Brussels: RCEU, 2016).
• Study for the European Parliament, LIBE Committee (with Costello, Garlick and Guild), Enhancing the CEAS and Alternatives to Dublin, PE 519.234 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2015)‪.
• Policy Brief (with Costello, Garlick and Guild), Enhancing the CEAS and Alternatives to Dublin, (Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, Paper in Liberty and Security No. 83/September 2015).
• Study for the European Parliament, LIBE Committee (with Costello, Garlick, and Guild), New Approaches, Alternative Avenues and Means of Access to Asylum Procedures for Persons Seeking International Protection, PE509.989 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2014).
• Briefing Paper for the European Parliament, DG External Policies (with Guild), Current Challenges regarding International Refugee Law, with a focus on EU policies and EU co-operation with UNHCR, PE 433.711 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2013).
• Expert opinion on behalf of the lmmigration Law Practitoners' Association (ILPA), ‘Observations concerning the own-initiative inquiry into the implementation by Frontex of its fundamental rights obligations received from lmmigration Law Practitoners' Association’, (Strasbourg: European Ombudsman, 2012).
• Study for the European Parliament, LIBE Committee (drafted with the Odysseus Network of legal studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe), Setting Up a Common European Asylum System, PE 425.622 (Brussels: European Parliament, 2010)

Lectures, talks, conferences and keynote appearances

• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Selective Solidarity? ‘Othering’, Islam, and Refugees from Ukraine’, as part of the Seminar Series Islam in World Perspective, co-organised by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Comparative Muslim Societies Program, and the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca (USA), on 29 April 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Civil Obedience, State Disobedience and Abuse of (EU) Law: The Case of Humanitarian Smuggling’, at the Institute of European Studies of the University of Berkeley, Berkeley (USA), on 11 April 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on: ‘Solidarity Crimes, Legitimacy Limits’, at the 2024 Annual Conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), held in San Francisco (USA), on 3-6 April 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Human Rights, Shared Responsibility and Accountability Gaps’, at the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group: Assessment of Commission Human Rights Evaluation of the European Borders and Coast Guard Agency, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 20 March 2024 (online).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘(Over)Criminalisation as Abuse of Power’, at the NYU Mediterranean Center Seminar Series: Criminalising Solidarity in Europe, held at NYU, New York (USA), on 14 March 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘Functional Jurisdiction: Ending Unaccountability in Extraterritorial Situations’, at the SOAS / Milan International Conference: Jurisdiction and the Protection of Human Rights at Sea, hosted by Università Milano-Bicocca (Italy), on 7 March 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Humanitarian Smuggling? A Legitimacy Appraisal under EU Law’, at the NYU Jean Monnet Center, Emile Noël and Global Hauser Fellows Forum, held at NYU Law School, New York (USA), on 18 January 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Towards Border Justice: Reconceptualising Extraterritorial Jurisdiction’, at the International Expert Workshop: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, held by the Ghent Human Rights Centre (Belgium), on 12 January 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax commented on ‘Covert Border Enforcement and the Prima Facie Standard of Proof’, at the DISSECT Workshop: The Evidentiary System of the European Court of Human Rights in Critical Perspective, hosted by the Ghent Human Rights Centre (Belgium) (online), on 10 January 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered ‘The Cagliari Lectures on Border Violence’, as Visiting Professor, within the distinguished scientist-in-residence programme, of the University of Cagliari (Italy), on 2-11 January 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered Guest Lectures on: ‘EU Borders, Migration and Asylum from a Critical Perspective’, as Visiting Professor, within the Multidisciplinary MA Programme in International Relations and Diplomacy, at the College of Europe (Belgium), on January - March 2024.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘Asylum and Migration Governance at a Crossroad: EU Futures’, at the Spanish Association for the Study of Migration (AIDAM) 2023 Annual Conference, hosted at the University of Girona (Spain), on 14-15 December 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened and chaired the (B)OrderS Workshop: Refugee Communities in the Middle East - A Critical Perspective, held at Queen Mary Law School (UK), on 27 November 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘The Weaponisation of Migration’, at the World Peace Forum, held in Barcelona (Spain), on 23-25 November 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘From Securitisation to the "Crisification" of Migration: Rule of Law Impacts’, at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Migration Law Network, held in Hohenheim (Germany), on 10-12 November 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Migration and Crime’ (co-lead), at the Strategic UK-France Channel Sea Crossing Forum, hosted by the UK Embassy in France (co-organised with Queen Mary Centre for European Research), Paris (France), on 7 November 2023.
• Professor Moreno-Lax delivered Guest Lectures on: ‘Human Rights and Migration’, as Visiting Professor of the Executive MA Programme in EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy, of the ODYSSEUS Network and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), taking place in November - December 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax chaired the (B)OrderS Meet the Practitioners Roundtable - The Role of Academic Arguments in Legal Practice, held at Queen Mary Law School, on 27 October 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘The Sea as a Humanitarian Space’, at the High-Level Dialogue Platform on Search and Rescue at Sea, held by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva (Switzerland), on 19 October 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘“Crisification” as (Migration) Governance: EU Insights’, at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) - Standing Group on EU (SGEU) Seminar Series, held on 17 October 2023 (online).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘The Legal Perspective: Constraints and Opportunities’, at the Expert Roundtable on Externalisation in the Western Balkans Route, held by Médecins Sans Frontières, on 12 October 2023 (online).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on: ‘Crisification” as Migration Governance: Legal Impacts’, at the 1^st Queen Mary – Cornell Migration Conference, held at Queen Mary Malta Campus, Gozo (Malta), on 9-10 October 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered Guest Lectures on: ‘The Law of Treaties in Critical Perspective’ and ‘The Humanisation of International Law’, as Visiting Professor, within the Public International Law Seminars, of the Faculty of Law, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), taking place in October - November 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened the SHARED Project Final Conference, hosted by the University of Barcelona (Spain), on 28-29 September 2023 (SHARED Final Conference video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Crisis, Risk and Migration Governance: From Securitisation to “Crisification”’, at the BLEST International Workshop: Crisis, Risk, and European Governance, hosted by Bocconi University Milan (Italy), on 21-22 September 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a Guest Lecture on: ‘Instrumentalising “EU Sovereignty”: Strategic (Soft) Migration Governance’, as Visiting Professor, of the ELS 2023 Summer School, hosted by King’s College London (UK), on 4-7 September 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘EU Solidarity as Exclusion: Othering, Sharing and Refugees’, within the SOL-LEX Network Workshop: Mapping EU Solidarity in the Aftermath of Crisis, at the University of Essex (UK), on 14 July 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax participated in UNHCR Expert Meeting: Expanding Academic Engagement with Refugees, hosted by the GAIN Network in London (UK), on 13 July 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered Guest Lectures on: ‘The Extraterritorial Reach of (EU) Human Rights’, as Visiting Professor, of the ODYSSEUS Summer School in EU Migration Law, hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), on 4 July 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax chaired the (B)OrderS Meet the Practitioners Roundtable - A Dialogue on Complex Protection Claims and Academic Impact in the Courtroom (Hybrid), held at Queen Mary Law School, on 26 June 2023 (A Dialogue on Complex Protection Claims and Academic Impact in the Courtroom video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘The Embodied Border Paradigm: Towards Personalised Controls’, at the IDP International Workshop: Unpacking the Threat - The Erosion of Migrant Rights in the Age of AI, held at the University of Barcelona (Spain), on 16 June 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘Rescue: Duty, Right or Crime?’ and ‘Litigating Non-Rescue Strategies’, at EUROMED Rights: For a Right to Rescue in the Mediterranean, held in Barcelona (Spain), on 2 June 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘Talking Rights to Power: From Externalisation to “Responsibilisation”’, at the RENFORCE International Conference: Externalization of Migration Control and Legal Accountability Challenges, hosted by the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), on 26 May 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened the SHARED meeting with policy makers and key stakeholders, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 23-24 May 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘The “Softification” of EU Asylum Law’, at the 18^th Biennial Conference of the American Association on European Studies (EUSA), held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), on 3-6 May 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax co-convened the (B)OrderS - Criminal Justice Centre Workshop: Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU: Theoretical, Interdisciplinary, and Practical Perspectives, organised in cooperation with the University of Maastricht and the GLaw-Net Research Network, held at Queen Mary Law School, London (UK), on 28 April 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax participated in the public launch of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Law and the co-editors workshop, held at the College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium), on 21 April 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened the SHARED Project kick-off workshop hosted by the (B)OrderS Centre, Queen Mary Law School (online), on 18 April 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax co-convened (B)OrderS and Queen Mary Human Rights Law Centre Workshop: Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of AI Systems for Migration Management(Hybrid), held at Queen Mary Law School, on 29 March 2023 (Towards Autonomous Borders? video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The EU’s Approach: Differentiated Asylum and Discriminatory Refuge?’, at the Joint UKAEL / FIDE Finland Webinar: EU law after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, held on 21 March 2023 (online).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘The “Crisifcation” of Migration as a Governance Tool’, within the Global Migration Law Network (GMLN) International Workshop: New Governance Structures of International Migration, hosted by Temple Law School (USA) (online), on 17 March 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The Paradox of Humanitarian Smuggling’, at the CIDOB-GESDI Speaker Series, Barcelona (Spain), on 24 January 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Visiting Professor on: ‘The International Legal System in Context’, within the MA Programme in International Relations, at the IBEI Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain), taking place in January - March 2023.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax presented a paper on ‘“Crisification” as a Mode of Governance: Insights from the EU Borders Acquis’, at the UNESCO Chair Conference: Schengen and European Borders, hosted by the University of Zagreb (Croatia), on 9 December 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘Unpacking Externalisation: The EU Border Governance Complex’, at the LIBE Committee Conference: Out of sight, out of mind: The EU’s policy of externalising borders, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 8 December 2022 (Out of sight, out of mind video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax co-convened the (B)OrderS Book Forum: Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the EU - The Case of Information Systems, by Dr Niovi Vavoula (QMUL), held at Queen Mary Law School, London (UK), on 8 December 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened and chaired the (B)OrderS Inaugural Lecture: Protecting Refugees without Borders delivered by Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill (University of Oxford), held at Queen Mary Law School, London (UK), on 1 December 2022 (Protecting Refugees without Borders video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘”Crisification” as a Tool of Migration Control’, at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Irish Immigration, Asylum and Citizenship Bar Association (IACBA), held in Dublin (Ireland), on 25 November 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘Maritime Rescue: Saving Lives as Necro-Political Exercise’, at the GMC Conference: The Global Compact on Migration, hosted by the Global Migration Centre Geneva (Switzerland), on 24 November 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on: ‘Push-backs: Conceptualisation, Evolution and Prospects’, within the Multidisciplinary MA Programme in Migration Studies, of the CERM Universitat de Barcelona (UB) & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UBA) (Spain), on 17 November 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘Informalisation as EU Dis-integration: The Rule of Law Impact of Externalised Borders’, at the EUI International Conference: Ruling European External Borders, held at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy), on 13-14 October 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened and co-chaired the Authors’ Workshops of the Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Law on the thematic areas of JHA, Borders, Asylum, Technology, Immigration, and Criminal Cooperation, at Queen Mary Law School (online), on 5-7 October 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened and Chaired the (B)OrderS Thematic Launch of the Handbook on the Common European Asylum System and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Legal Migration, organised in cooperation with Bristol Law School and the University of Nijmegen, held at Queen Mary Law School, on 27 September 2022 (Handbook on the Common European Asylum System and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Legal Migration video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Humanitarian Corridors’, at the Expert Consultation on Conceptual and Operational Issues on Access to Asylum, of the IDP (Institute of Public Law) of the University of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain), on 21 September 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘The “Crisification” of Migration Law: Insights from the EU External Border’, at the Author’s Workshop - The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law, held at the University of Virginia (USA) (online), on 11-12 August 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘Racialised Refuge? Europe and the “Right to Flee”’, at the 2022 Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), hosted by Universidade Catolica de Santos, Sao Paulo (Brazil) (online), on 1-5 August 2022 (e-book).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened and Chaired the (B)OrderS Closing Lecture: The EU External Border as a Site of Preventive Injustice delivered by Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas (University of Liverpool), held at Queen Mary Law School, London (UK), on 28 June 2022 (The EU External Border as a Site of Preventive Injustice video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘Autonomy, EU Law, and the Case Against “Normative Functionalism”’, as part of the European Papers Annual Workshop: European Integration, EU Autonomy and Legal Theory, hosted by University of Groningen (The Netherlands), on 17 June 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax co-convened the (B)OrderS Expert Discussion, co-hosted by CONREP Network and the EUI Migration Policy Centre: Externalisation through Privatisation: The Role of Non-State Actors in Border Enforcement and Exclusion , held online on 15 June 2022 (Externalisation through Privatisation video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Risks and Potential in Migration and Border Violence Cases’, at the Expert Workshop: Inter-state communications before UN human rights treaty bodies, held by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and King’s College London (KCL), in London (UK), on 9 June 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened the (B)OrderS Book Forum: The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities by Dr Stephanie Motz (Zurich), held online on 8 June 2022 (The Refugee Status of Persons with Disabilities video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened and chaired the (B)OrderS Masterclass: Refugees and Decent Work delivered by Professor Jennifer Gordon (Fordham Law School), at Queen Mary School of Law (UK), on 6 June 2022 (Refugees and Decent Work video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote Address: ‘Mutual Trust and the Asylum Acquis: Enforcement without Rights?’, at the Jean Monnet Network on EU Law Enforcement (EULEN) International Conference, hosted by the University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain), on 2-3 June 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘The “Right to Flee” and Racialised Access to Protection in Europe’, at the MAPS Jean Monnet Network - Final Conference, hosted by University L’Orientale, Naples (Italy), on 19-20 May 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on: ‘The Research-in-Action Model: S. and Others v. Italy’, at the Winter School on Strategic Litigation and Public-Interest Lawyering, held at the University of Turin (Italy), on 19 May 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax convened the (B)OrderS Thematic Launch of the Oxford Handbook on International Refugee Law in cooperation with the Hertie Centre for Fundamental Rights and iCourts (online) on 16 May 2022 (Oxford Handbook on International Refugee Law video).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Frontex after Leggeri’s Resignation: (Structural) Lessons yet to be Learnt’, at the EUI Expert Roundtable Frontex and the Rule of Law, hosted by the European University Institute, Florence (Italy), on 12 May 2022 (online).
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The EU Non-Rescue Strategy for the Mediterranean’, at the IEMed Aula Mediterranea Public Lecture Series, organised by the European Institute for the Mediterranean, Barcelona (Spain), 21 April 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘SAR at Sea after the EU’s New Pact: Structuralising Non-Rescue’, at the MERCRO Public Lecture Series, organised by Université de Lyon 3 (France), on 29 March 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘Informalisation as Concerted Dis-Integration of EU External Asylum Policy’, at the LSE International Workshop: The Frontiers of EU External Migration Governance, held at the London School of Economics, London (UK), on 17-18 March 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The Common European Asylum System: Deterrence vs. Protection’, at the Conference on the Future of Europe, European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 11-12 February 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘UK-EU Migration Policy Collaboration: Taking Back Control?’, at the NEXTEUK Annual Conference - EU-UK Relations and Global Order, held in London (UK), on 13-14 January 2022.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The “Autonomy” of EU Law and the Flaws of Normative Functionalism’, at the Maastricht Centre for European law (MCEL) Seminar Series, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), on 23 November 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on ‘Post-pandemic Borders: Power, Suppression and (Unwanted) Migration’, at the International workshop: The Politics of Sanitizing Space and (Im)Mobility, co-convened by The City University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary University of London (virtually), on 5-6 November 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The “Autonomy” of EU Law and the Risks of Selective Constitutionalism’, at the EU Law Discussion Group of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), on 4 November 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Crimes of Rescue: Humanitarian Smuggling and the (Il)legitimacy of Criminalisation’, at the International workshop: Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU, hosted by the University of Maastricht in Brussels (Belgium), on 22 October 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on: ‘Migration Status as Legally Created Vulnerability’, at the International Conference - Vulnerability Across Disciplines, hosted by Newcastle Law School (UK), on 7-8 October 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘EU External Relations and Migration: Dismantling the Rule of Law?’, at the MAPS Project – International Conference, hosted by the University Goce Delcev-Stip (Macedonia), on 23 September 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on behalf of GLAN on ‘Legal Barriers to Access International Protection’, at the CONREP Civil Society Roundtable – Refugee Externalisation Policies, hosted by the University of Melbourne (Australia), on 14 September 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The Extraterritorial Reach of Human Rights’, at a Plenary Session of the Odysseus Network 20^th Anniversary Conference – The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, co-hosted by the Egmont Institute in Brussels (Belgium), on 9-10 September 2021 (video: 'Conference 2021: An externalised Pact (Panel 5)').
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on: ‘EU Pandemic Borders: Towards A Post-Biopolitical Paradigm?’, at the Virtual Annual Conference of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES), on 6-8 September 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered the Keynote address of the Migration and Asylum Law Section of the 2021 SLS Annual Conference on: ‘The Right to Flee: Towards “Primary” Pathways to Asylum’, hosted by the Society of Legal Scholars at Durham University (UK), on 2 September 2021.
• Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘The Academic Perspective on Climate-related Displacement’, at the Expert Roundtable on Climate Change and Migration, convened by Mishcon De Reya LLP (virtually), on 10 August 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean’ (interview format), within the Certificate Programme in Migration Studies of The New School, New York (USA), on 22 July 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Legal Jurisdiction: Which Scope of Application for Human Rights?’, at the 2021 Odysseus Summer School, hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), on 8 July 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘The Future of Migration and Asylum in the EU’, at the Conference on the Future of Europe – Expert Working Group on Migration, hosted by the European Commission (virtually), on 6 July 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Functional Jurisdiction and Human Rights Responsibility at Sea’, at the Roccella Summer School in International Law – Migrations Panel, hosted by the University of Catanzaro (Italy), on 5-8 July 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a Testimonial on GLAN Border Violence work: ‘A Research in Action Approach’ as part of The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) - CeCIL Annual Lecture 2021, hosted by the University of Kent (UK), on 23 June 2021 (video: 'CECIL 2020-21 ANNUAL LECTURE').
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘The EU Approach on Migration in the Mediterranean’, at the LIBE Committee Hearing on the EU Approach on Migration in the Mediterranean Study hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 22 June 2021 (video: 'LIBE Committee Meeting: Presentation of the EU Approach on Migration in the Mediterranean').
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on: ‘Pandemic Borders: “Othering” Forced Migrants as Anti-life’, at the Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative – ‘Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70’, hosted by the School of Advance Studies of the University of London (UK), on 9-11 June 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax Chaired a panel on: ‘Border and Security Issues’, at the  International Conference: European Law and Policies against Hybrid Threats, hosted by University College Cork (Ireland), on 20 May 2021.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax Convened the MAPS Project – International Conference: Conflicting Responses to Refugees and Migrants in Covid-19 Europe, hosted by Queen Mary University of London (UK), on 11 December 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘A Model Instrument for an Emergency Evacuation Visa: Follow Up’, at the International Bar Association – 2020 Annual Virtual Meeting, hosted by the International Bar Association (virtually), on 26 November 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was discussant at the GLOBMIG Seminar – Changing Trends of EU Migration Law and Governance, hosted by Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), on 17 November 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Functional Jurisdiction: Re-defining Article 1 ECHR’, at the Closing Roundtable of the 2020 Annual Conference of the Migration Law Network: Law at Borders - at Law’s Borders, hosted by the Migration Law Network (virtually), on 13 November 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘A new common European approach to search and rescue?’, at the ADiM Annual Conference of the Academy of Law and Migration, hosted by University of Tuscia (Italy), on 6-8 November 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The New Pact on Migration and Asylum: A Missed Opportunity’, at the Expert Roundtable of the College of Europe Migration and Asylum Awareness Society, hosted by the College of Europe Migration and Asylum Awareness Society (virtually), on 14 October 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘The Virologification of Migration Governance: Unwanted Migrants as Anti-life’, at the Temple Migration and Asylum Law Workshop, hosted by Temple University (USA), on 9 October 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was roundtable Plenary Speaker on: ‘Post-Brexit Asylum and Migration Policy in the UK’, at the 1st NEXTEUK International Conference, hosted by the Queen Mary Centre for European Research (London), on 10-11 September 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Tools available to the European Parliament to ensure democratic accountability within the EU External Migration Policy’, DROI Committee Consultative Roundtable - Human Rights and EU External Migration Policy, hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 8 September 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Lecturer on: ‘The Implications of Human Rights for Immigration and Asylum Policy’, within the 20^th ODYSSEUS Summer School, hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), on 26 August 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Which Scope of Application for Migration and Asylum Protection? About the Notion of Jurisdiction in International Law’, within a Plenary Debate part of the 20^th ODYSSEUS Summer School, hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), on 25 August 2020.
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘The Risks of Informalisation of Relations with Third Countries’, DROI Committee Hearing - Human Rights and EU External Migration Policy, hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 3 July 2020 (video: 'Committee on Human Rights').
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax was Invited Lecturer on: ‘Towards an “Interdiction by Omission” Model in the Mediterranean’, at the Virtual Summer School: Migration, Media and Governance (COST action), hosted by the University of Malta (Malta), on 10-11 June 2020.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Covid-19 and Death at Sea as a Means of Border Control’, at the Webinar Series: Human Rights of Migrants, COVID 19 and the ECHR, hosted by the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (Germany), in cooperation with the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool (UK), on 2 June 2020 (video: 'Webinar 4: Human Rights of Migrants, COVID 19 and the ECHR').
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘SAROBMED and the “Research in Action” Model’, at the Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO), Annual Festival, hosted by University of Linz (Austria), on 22 May 2020.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘EU-Italy-Libya Cooperation in Cross-Mediterranean Migration Containment', at the Briefing on the European Court of Auditors’ complaint on the EUTFA Libya migration funding, hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 17 April 2020.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Criminalising the Good Samaritan? Framing Search and Rescue Operations’, at the Conference on Migration Policies in the Mediterranean and Libya, hosted by SciencesPo Paris (France), on 12 February 2020.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Intersectionality, Forced Migration and the Jus-generation of the Right to Flee’, at the Berkeley Refugee and Migration Law Workshop, hosted by the University of Berkeley (US), on 12-13 December 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Protection from Return: The Way Forward’, at the Expert Workshop on International Human rights law: A Source of Protection from Return, hosted by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva (Switzerland), on 27 November 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘Criminalising Solidarity: Legal Problems with the EU Facilitators Package’, at the European Greens Conference on Shrinking Spaces: Policing Humanitarianism and Human Rights Defenders, hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 21 November 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Keynote Speaker on: ‘Conditioning the Unconditional: How Universal are Universal Rights’, at the 13^th Annual Conference of the Migration Law Network, held in Stuttgart (Germany), on 8-10 November 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper on: ‘Mutual Trust as Rights Dispossession in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’, as part of the Governance and Law in the European Market (GOLEM) Seminar Series of the London School of Economics (LSE), on 29 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax presented her ‘Conceptual Tree for the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’, at the Editors Workshop of The Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Law, hosted by the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium), on 26 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on ‘Strategic Litigation and Pull-backs at Sea’, at a closed working meeting hosted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Brussels (Belgium), on 18 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Rapporteur on ‘Interoperability and Refugees’, at the Stakeholder Taskforce – Interoperable Information Systems in the AFSJ, hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels (Belgium), on 18 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘“Solidarity Rescues” in the Mediterranean: A Duty, a Crime or a Right?’, at the Conférences sur l'Europe Lecture Series of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), on 10 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on ‘Strategic Litigation and the Criminalisation of Solidarity’, at the RESoMA Project Meeting, hosted by Social Platform, Brussels (Belgium), on 4 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on ‘External Borders and Schengen Controls’, at the CEPS High-Level Conference - '20 Years of the Tampere Programme', hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels (Belgium), on 3-4 October 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on ‘Strategic Litigation: Pending Cases in the European Court of Human Rights’, at the Expert Meeting - Strategic Cooperation on the Central Mediterranean, co-hosted by Amnesty International and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) in London, on 27 September 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax presented her study: ‘A Model Instrument for an Emergency Evacuation Visa’, at the International Bar Association (IBA) 2019 Annual Meeting, hosted by the Korean Bar Association in Seoul (Korea), on 24 September 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on ‘20 Years of EU Migration and Asylum Policy: Leaving Tampere Behind?’, at the MAPS Project Launching Conference, hosted by L’Orientale University of Naples (Italy), on 23-24 September 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Death as a Feature of Border Control: Persecution by Omission?’, at the European Society of International Law (ESIL) 2019 Annual Conference, hosted by the Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), on 12-14 September 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on ‘The Limits of Legitimate Criminalisation’, at the GUE/GNL Hearing: Saving Lives is Not a Crime (video: “Saving lives is not a crime”), hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 11 September 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on ‘Human Rights Challenges to EU Policy on Access to Asylum’, at the REMAP Study discussion, hosted by the University of Giessen, on 3 September 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Protection by Sea: The Permanent Crisis’, at The Oxford Handbook on International Refugee Law authors workshop, hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, on 25 July 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on ‘Why “Autonomy” should Not be Considered a General Principle of EU Law’, at the Ghent European Law Institute (GELI) Brownbag Seminar Series, hosted by the University of Ghent (Belgium), on 5 July 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker (video intervention) on: ‘Strategic Litigation in the Mediterranean’, at the Public Event: Mare Clausum - Juridical struggles at European external borders, hosted by the University of Frankfurt (Germany), on 4 July 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Lecturer on ‘The Common European Asylum System: Coercion-based Protection?’, at the 2019 Jean Monnet Summer School: Migration Flows, hosted by the Kaposdistrian University of Athens, Athens (Greece), on 21 June 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Litigation for Change’ at the CONREP Conference: Refugee Externalization Policies, Monash University, Prato Centre, Prato (Italy), on 14 June 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Rescue as (Humanitarian) Smuggling and the Limits of Legitimate Criminalization’, at the British International Studies Association (BISA) – 2019 Annual Conference, hosted by the Royal Society, London, on 12-14 June 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Building up Partnerships with Countries of Origin’ at the Stakeholders Roundtable discussion: From Tampere 2020 to Tampere 2.0, hosted by the ODYSSEUS Network and the European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels (Belgium), on 12 June 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘From Passive Deterrence to Active Coercion: Undoing Asylum from Within’, at the Law & Society Association (LSA) - 2019 Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (US), on 31 May 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘Europe, Asylum and the Coercion Paradigm’, within the Doctoral Programme on Forced Migration of University L’Orientale, Naples (Italy), on 20 May 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘The Legacy of Crisis-Based CEAS-Making: Risks and Prospects’, at the Jean Monnet Module on Immigration and Asylum Law of Salerno University, Salerno (Italy), on 17 May 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Challenges and Prospects of the Maritime Context: GLAN at Sea’, at the HIAS Roundtable – Strategic Litigation in Asylum and Migration Issues, hosted by HIAS, Lesbos (Greece), on 14 May 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘Shrinking Civil Space and Strategic Litigation Tools’, at the 2019 Grüninger Prize Ceremony and Seminar, hosted by the Grüninger Foundation, St Gallen (Switzerland), on 10-11 May 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘The Post-crisis Model of Coercion-based Protection’, at the EURASYLUM Conference – Achieving a Common Vision of Migration in Europe, hosted by the University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain), on 29 April 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The Hirsi 2 Case: Refoulement by Proxy at Sea’, at the IEE Seminar – Strategic Litigation for Upholding Migrant Rights, hosted by the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Brussels (Belgium), on 24 April 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Vulnerability-making in EU Asylum Law’, at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) – 2019 Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Leeds, on 4 April 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on ‘Courts and Anti-migrant Border Policy’, at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of International Law (ASIL), Washington D.C. (US), on 29 March 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a CER Keynote Intervention on ‘The Right to Rescue: A Human Rights Defender Framework’, within the CER Keynote Lecture Series of the Queen Mary Centre for European Research (CER), London, on 25 March 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Chair of: International Law’s Objects at the CEILA Book Forum by Dr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (UNSW), Queen Mary University of London, London, on 20 March 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was convener and chair of: ‘Becoming a Civil MRCC for the Mediterranean’, at the SAROBMED Network Meeting, hosted by Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels (Belgium), on 19 March 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘Europe: No Ports and No Relocation for “Boat Migrants”’, at the Sakharov Prize Finalist Seminar: Migration Across the Mediterranean (video: 'NGOs saving lives in the Mediterranean, Sakharov Prize finalist 2018'), hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 18 March 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Close Ports: Legal Strategies to Gain Access to Disembarkation’, at the Palermo Charter Platform Process: From the Sea to the Cities, hosted by the City Council of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain), on 1^st March 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Three Years after the Refugee Crisis: Have EU Priorities Shifted’, at the CEPS Ideas Lab – Europe’s Choice, hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels (Belgium), on 22 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a Guest Lecture on ‘The “Permanent Crisis” of Migration by Sea’, at the Columbia European Institute (New York), within the MA in European History, Politics and Society, New York (US), on 21 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘Crimes of Rescue: The Limits of Legitimate Criminalization’, at the Yale Macmillan Centre for International Studies - Speaker Series - Programme on Refugees, New Haven (US), on 20 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘The (Intersectional) Right to Flee Under International Law’, at Yale Law School – Schell Centre for International Human Rights, New Haven (US), on 20 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘The Right to Asylum as a Human Right’ for the MSc in Forced Migration Studies, at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, on 7 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Speaker on ‘S.S. v Italy: Functional Jurisdiction and “Contactless” Control’, for the LLM in International Human Rights, at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland), on 7 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘The Legal and Ethical Implications of Distance Creation’, for the Mobile People Seminar Series – ESRC Multi-disciplinary Doctoral Programme, at Queen Mary University of London, London, on 6 February 2019.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘The EU's “Embodied Border” Paradigm’, at a Public Seminar of Sussex Law School, Brighton, on 6 December 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Chair of: Legal Monism: Law, Philosophy and Politics, at the CEILA Book Forum by Dr Paul Gragl (QMUL), Queen Mary University of London, London, on 5 December 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘The IUVENTA Affair: Criminalising Solidarity Rescues at Sea’, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, during the International Migration Film Festival, London, on 3 December 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘Contextualising Pullbacks by Italy and Libya’, at Genesis Cinema, during the International Migration Film Festival, London, on 2 December 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘SAROBMED-The SAR Observatory for the Mediterranean’ 12’32’’, launching the network and database, at the LIBE Committee Hearing: SAR at Sea and Disembarkation Platforms, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 27 November 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Speaker on: ‘From Legal Pathways to Individual (Rights-based) Access to Asylum’, at the REINFORCE Conference: Regulation and Enforcement in the EU, Utrecht University, Utrecht (The Netherlands), on 22-23 November 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Accountability At Sea:  Multi-actor Constellations in Maritime Migration’, at the ERC Workshop: Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control, hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, Oxford, on 10 November 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax launched her monograph: ‘Accessing Asylum in Europe’, at the CEILA Book Forum by Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (QMUL), Queen Mary University of London, London, on 2 November 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘SAROBMED: The Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean’, IMHRC Annual Conference: Maritime Business and Human Rights, hosted by Human Rights at Sea, London, on 29 October 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Refoulement by Proxy and “Remote Control”’, at the ESIL / ILS Conference: The EU as a Global Actor in Maritime Security, hosted by the University of Leiden, Leiden (The Netherlands), on 25-26 October 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘EU Humanitarian Visas: A State of Play’, at the Jean Monnet Conference: The international protection of refugees in Europe, hosted by the University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), on 19 October 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Humanitarian Smuggling as Solidarity Crimes? The Limits of Legitimate Criminalisation’, at the CINETS International Conference – Crimmigration at a Crossroads?, hosted by Queen Mary Law School, London, on 5-6 October 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Convener and Speaker on: ‘From Ship Seizures to Closed Ports in Italy and Malta’, SAROBMED Legal Workshop – State of Play of Pending Claims, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Berlin (Germany), on 14 September 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘SAR NGOs as Human Rights Defenders’, at Die Linke Conference: Sea Rescue and Mediterranean Challenges, held at the German Bundestag, Berlin (Germany), on 13 September 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Accessing Asylum in Europe: The Depth and Breadth of Obstacles to Protection’, at the 3rd Annual Conference: Refugee Protection in a Hostile World? of the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, London, on 18-19 July 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Convener and Moderator of: ‘Next steps and future strategy of the platform’ of the SAROBMED Meeting – Preparing for Public Launch, Berlin Social Innovation Lab, Berlin (Germany), on 14-15 July 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘S.S. and Others v. Italy: Towards a Hirsi 2 Precedent’, Debate on the Interception of Migrants at Sea and the Policies of Pullbacks, ODYSSEUS Summer School, Brussels (Belgium), on 12 July 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘EU Humanitarian Visas: Legal Aspects’ (programme: VISA CODE AND HUMANITARIAN VISAS), at the LIBE Hearing on the Visa Code and Humanitarian Visas, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 10 July 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered papers on: ‘General Principles of EU Law: Concept, Criteria, Context and Consequences’ (with K. Zielger and P. Neuvonen); ‘Is the “Autonomy” of the EU Legal Order a General Principle? Perspectives from EU and Public International Law’; and ‘Non-principles of EU Asylum Law? Of (In-)equality and (Relative) Fairness’, at the International Workshop – Constructing Legal Orders in Europe: The General Principles of EU Law, hosted by the University of Leicester, Leicester, on 29-30 June 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘Implications of the “closed port” policy of Italy and Malta’, at the S&D-GPF Conference: Main Challenges of EUROMED Cooperation, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 27 June 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘Italian Responsibility for Libyan Mischief in the Mediterranean’, within the Jean Monnet Module on Immigration and Asylum Law of the University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy), on 22 June 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Human Dignity and the Right to Asylum’, at the International Conference – The Essence of Fundamental Rights in EU Law, hosted by the European Law Centre of the University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium), on 17-18 May 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Convener and Speaker on: ‘Polishing the Members-only and Public-access Interfaces’, at the GUE/NGL Working Group - SAROBMED Mid-term Review Meeting, hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 14-15 May 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker for the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) on its joint submission with the Italian Association for Juridical Studies on Migration (ASGI) of S.S. and Others v. Italy, at the International Press Conference for the Launch of the Mare Clausum report and the ECtHR action against Italy, Rome (Italy), on 8 May 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Guest Lecturer on ‘Caring is Sharing: International Responsibility for Refugee Protection’, within the Seminar Series Under Siege: Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Global Law Centre of the University of Leuven, Leuven (Belgium), on 23 April 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘Seizing the Opportunity of a (Truly) Global Compact for the Future’, at the S&D TOGETHER Event – Global Refugee and Migration Governance, Hamburg (Germany), on 12 April 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary speaker on: ‘From Cooperation to Complicity: EU-Sponsored Human Rights Abuses?’, S&D - GUE/NGL Public Hearing: EU-Libya Cooperation, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 21 March 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘Policy Options Available to the Legislator’, at the Greens Public Hearing: Towards the Creation of EU Humanitarian Visas, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 20 March 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘What is Next for the EU-Turkey Statement?’, at the Expert Workshop: The EU-Turkey Statement Two Years On – Lessons Learnt, hosted by the European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels (Belgium), on 20 March 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Autonomy or Isolation? Recent CEAS Case Law’, at the iCourts Workshop in Asylum Law, hosted by the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark), on 9 March 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on: ‘The Implications of “Remote Control” on the Rights of Migrants’, at the Expert Workshop on Return and Readmission Policies, hosted by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva (Switzerland), on 6 March 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Towards the Hyper-Autonomization of EU Asylum Law’, at the 2018 Annual EU Law Conference of King’s College London Centre of European Law, London, on 2 March 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘SAROBMED: Need and Potentialities’ (pictures), at the S&D - GUE/NGL Public Hearing: Search and Rescue at Sea, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 27 February 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Convener and Speaker on: ‘Key Necessities and Key Features of the e-Platform’, at the GUE-/NGL Working Group - SAROBMED Kick-off Meeting, hosted by the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 26 February 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Why STC Transfers are Incompatible with International Refugee Law’ (video: ‘Why STC Transfers are Incompatible with International Refugee Law’), at the Rapid Reaction Workshop – Deportations from Israel to Rwanda, of the Refugee Law Initiative of the University of London, London, on 22 February 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert: ‘Why EU Law obliges Member States to Open Legal Channels for Refugees’, at the S&D Public Hearing: Working Breakfast on Humanitarian Visas, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 21 February 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited speaker on: Accessing asylum in Europe: border controls meet refugee rights at the Refugee Studies Centre Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2018 of the University of Oxford, Oxford, on 7 February 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Convener and Speaker on: ‘Asylum Visas after Case C-638/16 X and X’, at the OMNIA / ODYSSEUS Annual Policy Conference 2018, hosted by the Free University Brussels (ULB), Brussels (Belgium), on 1 February 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘The Role of Visas for Legal Avenues to Protection’, at the Inter-parliamentary (EP-Nat Parliaments) Committee: The EU Agenda on Migration, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 24 January 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Convener and Moderator of: ‘UN Global Compact on Migration: What Role for International Law?’ the Annual Lecture by Prof Vincent Chetail (GIIDS) of the Immigration Law Programme of Queen Mary University of London, London, on 22 January 2018.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘“Othering” as De-subjectification and the Semi-dignity of (Unwanted) Migrants’, at the International Workshop: The ‘Others’ Among ‘Us’ – ‘Otherness’ and the Law, hosted by the Europa Institute of the University of Leiden, Leiden (The Netherlands), on 8-9 December 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Convener and Chair of: Voting Rights of Refugees, CEILA Book Forum by Dr Ruvi Ziegler (Reading), hosted by Queen Mary University of London, London, on 6 December 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘The Intersection between Externalised Controls and Refugee Rights’, at the GUE/NGL Public Hearing: EU’s Externalisation of Borders, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 5 December 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert: ‘SAROBMED Update: Libyan pull-backs at sea’, at the GUE/NGL-Civil Society Working Group – Brainstorming Meeting 3, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 4 December 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Chair of: Panel 4 - Palliative Jurisdiction and International Responsibility, at the CEILA Workshop: Jurisdiction in International Law, hosted by Queen Mary University of London, London, on 29 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Plenary Speaker on: ‘The Migration Partnership Framework (MPF): Enhancing Containment’, at the LIBE Committee Hearing: Cooperation with Third Countries on Migration management, held at the European Parliament, Brussels (Belgium), on 28 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Convener and Chair of: UNHCR at Work and as a Workplace, a View from the Inside, UNHCR Open Session by J.-F. Durieux, Immigration Law Programme of Queen Mary University of London, London, on 23 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax acted as Convener of Migration and Asylum Organisations Visit Queen Mary, Meet and Greet Event, Immigration Law Programme of Queen Mary University of London, London, on 15 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited Expert on access to asylum (in-person participation and written contributions) at UNHCR Global Compact Thematic Discussions 4 & 5 – Durable Solutions / Overarching Issues, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva (Switzerland), on 14 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax was Invited speaker on: ‘Human Rights and Refugee Law Challenges’, at the Expert Workshop: External Asylum Reception Centres, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels (Belgium), on 13 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Solidarity as Framework Obligation in the International Legal Order’, at the White Rose Consortium Workshop: Understanding Solidarity Amid Refugee Crises, University of York, York, on 10 November 2017.
• Dr Moreno-Lax delivered a paper: ‘Missing Links and Lost Opportunities: The Two Compacts on Migration and Refugees’, at the Workshop: The Global Governance of Migration: Perspectives from Canada and Europe, hosted by the Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada), on 3 November 2017.

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• Dr Moreno-Lax speaks on migrant protection in Indonesia
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• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax to participate in a lecture series on the Free Movement of Persons
  16 December 2013
• Boat Refugees and Migrants at Sea - Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights
  13 December 2013
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax chairs a workshop of the European Asylum Support Office
  29 November 2013
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax speaks at workshop for refugee protection at Senate House
  16 November 2013
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax chairs a panel discussion on refugee law and human rights
  15 November 2013
• Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax delivers paper on Climate Migrants at the University of Macedonia
  19 October 2013