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About Gregor Noll

Gregor Noll is professor of international law, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden and is currently the holder of the Ragnar and Torsten Söderberg Foundations’ Professorship in Memory of Samuel Pufendorf.

Articles by Gregor Noll

This week’s front page editor

Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Visions of the exceptional

Gregor Noll 28 September 2015

Why did Britain and Denmark choose to reopen the migration debate not long after endorsing the 1952 refugee convention? What did this mean for the resettlement of peoples? [Reposted from openDemocracy, June 2003]

Why the EU gets in the way of refugee solidarity

Gregor Noll 22 September 2015

To distribute people, the most sensitive dimension of solidarity, is firstly about sharing norms; the rights of the asylum seekers must be guaranteed in reality, not just in law.

IS – a threat to the structure of international law?

Gregor Noll 27 November 2014

The theological and ideological basis for IS’s struggle visualizes this as a fight against the spiritual power centre of European public international law: Rome.

EU migration control: made by Gaddafi?

Gregor Noll and Mariagiulia Giuffré 25 February 2011

For over three years now, we have relied on Gaddafi and his state apparatus to keep asylum seekers and other migrants away from our European doors.

The Euro-African migration conference: Africa sells out to Europe

Gregor Noll 13 July 2006

The Rabat gathering’s "plan of action" to control migration flows from south to north is based on a faulty diagnosis and will not succeed even in its own terms, says Gregor Noll.

Visions of the exceptional

Gregor Noll 26 June 2003

This week, the People Flow argument gives way to the intense controversy over British and Danish government proposal for Regional and Transit Processing Centres to hold asylum-seekers. The proposal, presented as humane and practical, carries echoes of earlier, failed ‘refugee camp’ policies. If implemented, it would signify a costly and dangerous return to a dark period of European history.