S.N. Ballin (Samuel) LLM

Samuel Ballin (they/he) is a sociolegal researcher who connects migration law and academic theories with migrants’ personal experiences. Their research uses legal and qualitative empirical research methods to zoom in and out between the level of the human and the wider structural context. They have published across topics including highly-qualified labour migration, refugee law, climate change, gender and human rights, often drawing on their own experiences and their position as a migrant worker.

They have a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Sheffield and an LLM International Migration and Refugee Law from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. They have worked as a pro bono legal adviser, a lecturer and a language teacher and have previously written and published on a range of topics in migration law, including gender and asylum. They are a coordinator of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research (NNHRR) Working Group on Human Rights and the Climate Crisis. They are an active member of the NNHRR Working Group on Migration and Borders and the Refugee Law Initiative Working Group on Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement, as well as the Sustainability and Public Law doctoral research group at the Centre for State and Law (SteR).

• Sustainability and Public Law