Webinar: Impacts of COVID-19 on Mobility Policies in the EU with Prof. Iris Goldner Lang
The McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law (MJSDL) welcomes Professor Iris Goldner Lang, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
In this webinar, Prof. Iris Goldner Lang will describe the impacts of the pandemic on mobility policies in the European Union. COVID-19 policies in the EU have severely restricted free movement, migration, and asylum rights. This lecture will shed light on the particularities of anti-COVID-19 mobility measures in the EU, and their implications for free movement of persons in the Schengen border-free area, and for the right to seek asylum, as guaranteed by EU law.
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About the speaker
Iris Goldner Lang is a Jean Monnet professor of European Union law at the University of Zagreb 鈥� Faculty of Law. She is one of the coordinators of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 鈥淓U鈥檚 Global Leadership in the Rule of Law鈥�, the holder of the UNESCO Chair on Free Movement of People, Migration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue and a member of the Steering Committee of the UNESCO Unit for Bioethics and Law at the University of Zagreb 鈥� Faculty of Law. She works at the Department of European Public Law, which she chaired from 2013 until 2015. S
Iris Goldner Lang is a member of the Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 project 鈥淩econciling Science, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders" (RECIPES), led by Maastricht University. She is the president of the Croatian Society for European Law (FIDE national association), the Croatian representative in the Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law (ERA). She is the Editor-In-Chief of the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy and a member of the ERA Forum Advisory Board. She is the editor of three books and the author of numerous articles, chapters in books and a monography.
