Valsamis Mitsilegas is Professor of European Criminal Law, Director of the Criminal Justice Centre and Head of the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely in the fields of security and human rights, surveillance and privacy, European criminal law, immigration, asylum and borders, and on legal and policy responses to transnational crime and terrorism. He is a regular advisor to governments, parliaments, EU institutions and NGOs and is currently member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on European Criminal Policy. His recent monographs include The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe (Springer, 2015) and EU Criminal Law After Lisbon: Rights, Trust and the Transformation of Justice in Europe (Hart/Bloomsbury, forthcoming, May 2016).