Dirk Vanheule

Dirk Vanheule is a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp and a member of the research group Government and Law. He is also chairperson of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp. From 2012 to 2018, Dirk served as Dean of the Faculty of Law. He is also a member of the Ghent Bar, having appeared before the European Court of Human Rights, Constitutional Court, and the Supreme Administrative Court of Belgium.

Areas of Expertise: 

• Immigration and Asylum Law 
• Constitutionalism 
• Judicial Review
  

Selected Publications: 

• Vanheule, D. (2020) Reizen in tijden van corona: een lockdown van en aan de grenzen?
• Vanheule, D. (2020) The EU-Turkey migration Deal and the externalisation of migration policy.
• Vanheule, D. (2019) Hoe vind ik recht?​
  

Full Publication List: repository.uantwerpen.be/acadbib/irua/05837/N​

Selected Projects: 

• 2021 - 2023 - Informal Judicial Institutions: Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay (INFINITY).
  
• 2020 - 2024 - The Legal Position of Foreign Nationals in the Event of a Criminal Conviction in Belgium.
• 2018 - 2020 - ​Current European and Cross-National Comparative Research and Research Actions on Migration (CROSS-MIGRATION).