Academic Odysseus Network
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
The academic network for legal studies on immigration and asylum in Europe, was created in 1998 with the financial support of the European Commission's Odysseus programme, on the initiative of Philippe DE BRUYCKER, lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Public Law and the Institute for European Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
The network aims to analyse the legislation of EU Member States and legislation of the EU in the areas of migration and asylum. The objective is to furnish universities, policy-makers, practitioners and NGOs with a deeper insight into these issues, from a European perspective. The results of our analysis will be presented to the European Institutions, in order to help them in prepare a legislation based on the new provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam. The working languages are English and French.
This Network will carry out comparative legal studies on different themes. The first study analysed regularisation procedures of clandestine immigrants. A study of the temporary humanitarian status will follow. The adopted methodology involves, in the initial phase, Members of the Network to examine the existing norms in practice in their countries. This will be followed up by an in-depth comparative analysis of the different legal national systems in the EU. The results of this research has been published.
All Group Members of UACES