Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Elspeth Guild
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary, University of London
- Institute:
- Refugee Law Initiative
- Home institution:
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Email address:
- e.guild@qmul.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://rli.sas.ac.uk/people/prof-elspeth-guild
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Bio
Elspeth Guild is Jean Monnet Professor ad personam at Queen Mary, University of London as well as at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is also a partner at the London law firm, Kingsley Napley and an associate senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. She is also a visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. Her interests and expertise lies primarily in the area of EU law, in particular EU Justice and Home Affairs (including immigration, asylum, border controls, criminal law and police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters). She also researches EU privacy and data protection law and the nexus with human rights. She co-ordinates the European Commission’s Network of Experts on Free Movement of Workers. She is also co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law and Free Movement of Workers and of the book series Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe published by Martinus Nijhoff. Professor Guild provides regular advice to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and other European and international organizations (such as the UNHCR) on free movement of persons, migration and asylum. Professor Guild is co-chair of the European Sub Committee, Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA).
Publications/recent projects
- Security and Migration in the 21st Century Polity(Opens in new window) (2009).
Constructing and Imagining Labour Migration E Guild & S Mantu (eds) Ashgate, Aldershot, 2011
- ‘When even Machiavelli’s Prince needs a Visa – Migration, Euro-Mediterranean Relations and Intercultural Dialogue’ European Foreign Affairs Review (2010) 15 : 367 – 384.