Bio
Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University (Sweden). She is the holder of the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (2019-2024) awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. As a Wallenberg Fellow, she leads the project ‘The Borders within: the Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Europe.’
Her publications include the monographs Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law (Cambridge University Press 2017), and four co-edited volumes Seeking Asylum in the European Union: Selected Protection Issues Raised by the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System (Brill 2015), The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe: During and in the Aftermath of the 2015–2016 Crisis (Brill 2018), International Law and Violence against Women: Europe and the Istanbul Convention (Routledge 2020) and Migrants’ Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe (Cambridge University Press 2022). Her research interests relate to public international law, human rights law, migration law and EU law. She is the director of the migration law courses at the faculty.
Outputs through work with the RLI
Special issue of the European Journal of Migration Law Volume 25 (2023): Issue 2 (May 2023): Special Issue: Complementary Pathways in Murky Legal Waters, edited by Vladislava Stoyanova
Based on a panel that I organised at the 2023 RLI Annual conference. The issue can be accessed here European Journal of Migration and Law Volume 25 Issue 2: Special Issue: Complementary Pathways in Murky Legal Waters, edited by Vladislava Stoyanova (2023) (brill.com)
Publications/recent projects
- Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered. Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) www.cambridge.org/9781107162280
- The New Asylum and Transit Countries in Europe during and in the Aftermath of the 2015/2016 Crisis (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2018) co-edited with E Karageorgiou https://brill.com/abstract/title/38168
- “The Disjunctive Structure of Positive Rights” 87(3) Nordic Journal of International Law (2018) 344-392
- “The Right to Leave any Country: A Right to be Delivered” European Yearbook on Human Rights (2018) 373-394, co-authored with Elspeth Guild
- “Sweet Taste with Bitter Roots. Forced Labour and Chowdury and Others v Greece” European Human Rights Law Review (2018) 67-75
- “Populims, Exceptionality and the Right of Migrants to Family Life under the European Convention on Human Rights” 10(2) European Journal of Legal Studies (2018) 83-125
- “A Stark Choice: Domestic Violence or Deportation? The Immigration Status of Victims of Domestic Violence under the Istanbul Convention” 20(1) European Journal of Migration and Law (2018) 53-82
- “How Exceptional Must ‘Very Exceptional’ be? Non-refoulement, Socio-economic Deprivation and Paposhvili v. Belgium” 29(4) International Journal of Refugee Law (2017) 580-616
- “Causation between State Omission and Harm within the Framework of Positive Obligations under the ECHR” 18(2) Human Rights Law Review (2018)