competent, human rights-oriented, consistent in the matter.
Publications
Expert Opinions
- 2025
- Democratic Jurists Switzerland (DJS), Legal Centre Lesvos (LCL) and Samos Volunteers (SV): Expert Opinion: No Returns to Greece—Dublin Returnees Face Real Risk of Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, February 2025.
- 2023
- medico international Germany: “What safety are they talking about?” Why Turkey cannot be considered a ‘safe third country’ – an expert opinion, August 2023.
- Protection of Fundamental Rights vs. Fortress Europe: ECtHR Pushback Proceedings regarding Greece as a Missed Opportunity, together with Stephanie Motz. In: Beiträge zum Migrationsrecht – Festschrift für Marc Spescha, Fanny de Weck/Valerio Priuli/Rekha Oleschak-Pillai/Peter Uebersax (eds.), orell füssli Juristische Medien.
- “I was arrested because I am practising my profession”: Criminal proceedings against lawyers in Turkey – a trial observation report, together with David Keller, Leslie Spengler and Yaşar Ohle. In: Swiss Journal for Asylum Law and Practice ASYL 3/2025.
- Asylum applications from Turkey: Increasingly restrictive recognition practice, review of the Federal Administrative Court judgment E-4103/2024 of 8 November 2024, together with Mejreme Omuri. In: Swiss Journal for Asylum Law and Practice ASYL 3/2025.
- Dublin returns to Greece? Expert Opinion on (inadequate) reception conditions for transferred asylum seekers in Greece. In: Swiss Journal for Asylum Law and Practice ASYL 2/2025.
- Undermining Protection Standards in Pushback Cases: The ECtHR in A.R.E. v. Greece and G.R.J. v. Greece, review of the ECtHR judgments of 7 January 2025 in the cases of A.R.E. v. Greece (15783/2) and G.R.J. v. Greece (15067/21), together with Stephanie Motz. In: Strasbourg Observers, 28 March 2025.
- 2022
- “Voluntary return” to Syria under duress – or when so-called safe third countries prove not to be safe, review of the ECtHR judgment of 21 June 2022 in the case of Akkad v. Turkey (1557/19), together with Sarah Frehner. In: Swiss Journal for Asylum Law and Practice ASYL 3/2022.
- 2021
- Incorporating psychotraumatological findings into the credibility assessment in asylum proceedings, together with Elean Briggen. In: Swiss Journal for Asylum Law and Practice ASYL 2/2021.
- Asylum proceedings: Legal protection further dismantled – Corona measures at the expense of procedural rights. In: FemInfo 55/2020.
- Asylum proceedings: Legal protection further dismantled due to Corona. In: SozialAktuell, June 2020.
- Spain may continue to carry out push-backs at the border with Morocco, review of the ECtHR Grand Chamber judgment of 13 February 2020 in the cases of N.D. and N.T. v. Spain (8675/15 and 8697/15), together with Sarah Frehner. In: Magazine for Law and Policy plädoyer 2/2020.
- Unworthiness of asylum due to “endangerment of internal or external security”: on abstract danger and reversal of the burden of proof, commentary on selected aspects of BVGE 2018 VI/5, review of the Federal Administrative Court judgment BVGE 2018 VI/5 of 25 September 2018, together with Sarah Frehner. In: sui generis 2019.
- Criminal defence in the dock, together with David Furger and Pascal Ronc. In: Magazine for Law and Policy plädoyer 1/2019.
- 2016
- Political justice in Turkey – a contextualisation of the KCK proceedings, together with Alp Kayserilioğlu. In: Forum Recht 04/16.
- 2015
- Limits of preventive identification treatment and DNA sampling, review of the Federal Administrative Court judgment BGE 141 IV 87 of 8 November 2024. In: forumpoenale 5/2015.
- 2014
- When lawyers become defendants – a trial observation. In: Forum Recht 02/14.