As part of the lecture series “Europa im Gespräch”, Prof. Dr. Iris Goldner Lang, Law Professor at the University of Zagreb, will give a talk on EU Migration and Asylum Law on 1 May, 2025.

On 10 April 2024 the European Parliament adopted the package of ten legislative instruments, which partly make up the so-called New Pact on Migration and Asylum and which will reform the existing EU migration and asylum law framework. The aim of this lecture is to discuss the main novelties of the adopted acts, with a particular focus on border and screening procedures, instrumentalization of migrants and further externalization of EU migration and asylum policies. It will be considered whether the newly adopted acts respond to the current challenges and whether they will manage to ensure efficient and human rights-compliant practices.

Prof. Dr. Iris Goldner Lang is a Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, head of the Department of European Public Law and Vice Dean at the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law. She is the holder of the UNESCO Chair on Free Movement of Persons, Migration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue and a partner in the Volkswagen Foundation project “Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees” and in the Horizon project “Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe”. She is the president of the Croatian Society for European Law; Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law (ERA); member of the Odysseus Network; and member of the Editorial Boards of the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy and of the European Foreign Affairs Review.

Date and location:
Thursday, 1 May 2025, 17.15-18.45
University of Fribourg, Miséricorde, Room Jäggi (MIS 4112), Avenue de l’Europe 20