9 June 2022
Querying into Data in Asylum Decisionmaking, Authors: William Hamilton Byrne, Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen and Henrik Palmer Olsen
International migration law (IML) is the quintessential example of a fragmented body of international law. It lacks a central treaty system, which has fostered a situation where the substance of IML comes from a diverse body of peripheral norms. International and regional human rights courts and bodies add substantive new layers to the rights of migrants under international law through jurisprudence. In this scattered web of legal precedents, it can be difficult to identify what is relevant law in IML. This research uses computationally driven case citation network analysis to explore the ECtHR case law on migration issues, to identify explicit and implicit connections in the Courts’ migration case law.