Bio
Liline Steyn is working on her doctoral research at the Graduate Institute and as a teaching assistant of the LLM Programme at the Institute for the Protection of the Individual IN International Law Stream. Alongside her research, she is a research assistant at the International Law Commission for Ambassador Mario Oyarzábal. Formerly, Liline was practising as a candidate attorney in South Africa and has been admitted as an attorney to the High Court of South Africa. Liline holds a BA in Humanities, an LLB and an LLM from Stellenbosch University. She also completed an exchange at the University of Antwerp during her LLB studies where she focused on International and European Law.
PhD Title: The Best Interest of Children on the Move: A close analysis of the role and complexity of the principle of the best interest of the child in the context of migration
Affiliation: Geneva Graduate Institute, Department of International Law
Supervisor: Professor Vincent Chetail | Second Reader: Professor Andrew Clapham
Upcoming Publications
- July 2023 - Submitted an article to the South African Journal on Human Rights currently undergoing peer review.
- November 2023 - Submitted an article to the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal for publication titled “Shareholder Loans: Fact or Fiction?” co-authored with Prof Richard Stevens.
- December 2023 - Submitted a chapter for Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration Law edited by Prof Vincent Chetail on child migrants.