S.N. Ballin (Samuel) LLM

Samuel Ballin (they/he) is a PhD candidate researching EU labour migration law at the Centre for Migration Law (CMR).

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 a member of the NNHRR Working Group on Migration and Borders and the Refugee Law Initiative Working Group on Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement.

Their PhD research uses a combination of legal and empirical research methods to examine the economic-ecological resilience and rights of third-country national migrant workers under EU law. The project considers diverse examples of labour migration, bringing together legal analysis and new empirical data to develop fresh insights into the relationship between migration and climate change, beyond the thorny question of causation. This project is part of a group of PhD researchers at the Centre for State and Law (SteR) examining diverse aspects of sustainability and public law.