Email: deborah.casalin@uantwerpen.be
Website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/deborah-casalin/ / https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deborah-Casalin
Bio:
Deborah Casalin is a doctoral researcher and academic assistant in public international law at the University of Antwerp Faculty of Law, within the Law and Development Research Group. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of international judicial and quasi-judicial human rights mechanisms in ensuring reparation for arbitrary displacement. Previously, she worked for eight years in the humanitarian and development sectors in Geneva, Jerusalem and Brussels, primarily in roles relating to international humanitarian law and human rights. She holds an LLM from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, a Master of Laws from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and an LLB from the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, where she is currently also a research associate.
Doctoral Thesis Info: “The role of international (quasi-)judicial mechanisms in ensuring reparation for arbitrary displacement” – University of Antwerp Faculty of Law (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Koen De Feyter)
Recent Publications:
- New Rights Tracker survey data on IDP rights maps COVID-19 pressures, highlighting less visible internal displacement situations, Refugee Law Initiative Blog, 17 June 2021
- Georgia v. Russia (II): zooming in on conflict displacement, Strasbourg Observers, 17 February 2021
- First UN human rights decision on climate migration - a modest step forward, OpenGlobalRights, 26 March 2020
- “Human rights treaty mechanisms and reparation for IHL violations: fragmentation, partiality, selective justice?”, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2019
- “A green light turning red?: the potential influence of human rights on developing customary legal protection against conflict-driven displacement”, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2018
- “Prohibitions on arbitrary displacement in IHL and human rights: a time and a place for everything”, in Paul de Hert et al (eds) ‘Convergences and divergences between international human rights law, international criminal law and international humanitarian law’, Intersentia, 2018
- The Guiding Principles in international human rights courts, Forced Migration Review, Issue 59 (Twenty Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement), October 2018