Dr. Loren Landau, “Rights in an Era of Containment: Europe’s Migrant Crisis and the End of Universalism”

Co-Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and Global Legal Studies and the Human Rights Program.

Loren B Landau is the South African Research Chair in Human Mobility and the Politics of Difference based at the University of the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration & Society. He has previously held visiting and faculty positions at Princeton and Georgetown Universities and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A publicly engaged scholar, his interdisciplinary work explores human mobility, community, and transformations in the spatial and temporal bases of political authority. He has published widely in the academic and popular press and is a frequent media resource on regional and global migration policy debates.

He holds an MSc in Development Studies (LSE) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (Berkeley).