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Cathryn Costello

Cathryn Costello

Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin

Cathryn Costello is Full Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.  She was formerly Professor of Fundamental Rights and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (2020 – 2023), and she remains a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School. She was the inaugural Andrew W Mellon Professor of International Refugee and Migration Law at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford (2013-2023).  A leading scholar of international and European refugee and migration law, she also explores the relationship between migration and labour law in her work. She is co-editor (with Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam) of the Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law (OUP 2021). She was Principal Investigator of RefMig, an ERC-funded research project exploring refugee mobility, recognition and rights (2018-2024), and currently leads the Volkswagen Foundation funded AFAR (Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees) project.

Find further information at https://people.ucd.ie/cathryn.costello/about