William Hamilton Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 2170012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Hamilton Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Hamilton |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6851-0344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Credibility as a fuzzy concept in refugee law
Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law
From global tourism and free movement to refugees and climate-related displacement, human mobility is both a driver and an effect of what we think of as globalisation. Yet, the role of international law in constituting human mobility remains critically undervalued. In this contribution, we call for a radical rethinking of the role of international law in shaping our globe through the tenets of the mobilities paradigm in the social sciences. More …
Legal Infrastructures
This Article provides the outline for a conceptual framework focusing on legal infrastructures, comprised of socio-material assemblages and entangled legal normativities that both enable and constrain human societies. Section A introduces the growing transdisciplinary field of infrastructural studies, which employs the notion of infrastructure as a tool for analyzing the constitutive relationship between society and essential material structures.…
Doctrinal Legal Science
Doctrinal legal scholarship faces persistent challenges from empirical approaches, but such criticism rarely seeks to encounter doctrine on its own terms. In this article, we seek to excavate the theoretical and methodological basis of doctrinal legal scholarship by situating the discipline in a hermeneutic continuum between theory and practice, or law’s engagement with the social world. We first unfold this dynamic as an exercise in methodologic…
Digital Evidence in Refugee Status Determination
Digital evidence is rapidly emerging as a tool for migration authorities in refugee status determination (RSD)-the procedure for determining whether a person meets the criteria for protection as a "refugee." Its growing popularity may be seen as a response to the relative dearth of "hard" evidence in asylum procedures, where decisions often hinge exclusively on the applicant's personal narrative and assessment of her credibility. In this essay, w…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
International migration law (IML) is famously fragmented, which provides fertile ground for comparative inquiry. However, this task is inhibited the heterodox nature of IML as it draws on a composite body of law that is expressed in different concepts, interpretations and languages. This paper presents network analysis as one useful methodology for navigating IML's normative architecture and empirically mapping case law and its interrelations. Pa…
Data-driven futures of international refugee law
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct legal research in refugee studies at a grea…
Adjudicating national contexts – Domestic particularity in the practices of the European Court of Human Rights
The established view in textbooks and legal commentary is that the Court’s case law should be viewed as a coherent whole. In this article, we ask whether European human rights law is as unified and European as is often presumed. Based on a citation network of all Chamber judgments from 1998–2018, we argue that the practice of the Court is to some extent split in different strands of case law, where the Court reuses particular factual and legal ar…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
Two Paths in the Future Relationship of the European Court of Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
There are two potential paths in the future relationship between the African and European Human Rights Courts. One path, brimming with optimism, sees a ‘global community of courts’ engaging in judicial dialogue that contributes to global human rights law. A second path has emerged in a Concurring Opinion to ND and NT v. Spain, a judgment legitimizing pushback of migrants at the borders of Europe. Judge Pejchal suggested that the application shoul…
Data-driven futures of international refugee law
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct legal research in refugee studies at a grea…
Digital Evidence in Refugee Status Determination
Digital evidence is rapidly emerging as a tool for migration authorities in refugee status determination (RSD)-the procedure for determining whether a person meets the criteria for protection as a "refugee." Its growing popularity may be seen as a response to the relative dearth of "hard" evidence in asylum procedures, where decisions often hinge exclusively on the applicant's personal narrative and assessment of her credibility. In this essay, w…
Adjudicating national contexts – Domestic particularity in the practices of the European Court of Human Rights
The established view in textbooks and legal commentary is that the Court’s case law should be viewed as a coherent whole. In this article, we ask whether European human rights law is as unified and European as is often presumed. Based on a citation network of all Chamber judgments from 1998–2018, we argue that the practice of the Court is to some extent split in different strands of case law, where the Court reuses particular factual and legal ar…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
Two Paths in the Future Relationship of the European Court of Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
There are two potential paths in the future relationship between the African and European Human Rights Courts. One path, brimming with optimism, sees a ‘global community of courts’ engaging in judicial dialogue that contributes to global human rights law. A second path has emerged in a Concurring Opinion to ND and NT v. Spain, a judgment legitimizing pushback of migrants at the borders of Europe. Judge Pejchal suggested that the application shoul…
Network analysis and comparative migration law
International migration law (IML) is famously fragmented, which provides fertile ground for comparative inquiry. However, this task is inhibited the heterodox nature of IML as it draws on a composite body of law that is expressed in different concepts, interpretations and languages. This paper presents network analysis as one useful methodology for navigating IML's normative architecture and empirically mapping case law and its interrelations. Pa…
Data-driven futures of international refugee law
As refugee law practice enters the world of data, it is time to take stock as to what refugee law research can gain from technological developments. This article provides an outline for a computationally driven research agenda to tackle refugee status determination variations as a recalcitrant puzzle of refugee law. It first outlines how the growing field of computational law may be canvassed to conduct legal research in refugee studies at a grea…
Legal Infrastructures
This Article provides the outline for a conceptual framework focusing on legal infrastructures, comprised of socio-material assemblages and entangled legal normativities that both enable and constrain human societies. Section A introduces the growing transdisciplinary field of infrastructural studies, which employs the notion of infrastructure as a tool for analyzing the constitutive relationship between society and essential material structures.…
Doctrinal Legal Science
Doctrinal legal scholarship faces persistent challenges from empirical approaches, but such criticism rarely seeks to encounter doctrine on its own terms. In this article, we seek to excavate the theoretical and methodological basis of doctrinal legal scholarship by situating the discipline in a hermeneutic continuum between theory and practice, or law’s engagement with the social world. We first unfold this dynamic as an exercise in methodologic…
Digital Evidence in Refugee Status Determination
Digital evidence is rapidly emerging as a tool for migration authorities in refugee status determination (RSD)-the procedure for determining whether a person meets the criteria for protection as a "refugee." Its growing popularity may be seen as a response to the relative dearth of "hard" evidence in asylum procedures, where decisions often hinge exclusively on the applicant's personal narrative and assessment of her credibility. In this essay, w…
Redefining the mobility paradigm in international law
From global tourism and free movement to refugees and climate-related displacement, human mobility is both a driver and an effect of what we think of as globalisation. Yet, the role of international law in constituting human mobility remains critically undervalued. In this contribution, we call for a radical rethinking of the role of international law in shaping our globe through the tenets of the mobilities paradigm in the social sciences. More …
Credibility as a fuzzy concept in refugee law
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Human rights (4 works) · European and International Law Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Comparative and International Law Studies (2 works)