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Dr. L. (Lynn) Hillary LLM

Assistant Professor Europeanization Constitutional and Administrative Law
Faculty of Law
Constitutional and Administrative Law

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15557
    1001 NB Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Lynn Hillary works as an Assistant Professor at the department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are migration law, human rights and European public law. At the Amsterdam Law School, Lynn coordinates the LL.M. track Staats- en bestuursrecht and teaches courses on administrative law in the LL.B. (Administrative procedural law) and LL.M. track Staats- en bestuursrecht (Constitutional and adminstrative law in a compound legal order; 'Carrousel' module on migration law; Master theses).

    On October 14, 2022, Lynn Hillary defended her PhD dissertation, entitled ‘Mutual trust as a general principle of EU law. External European asylum law through the lens of Member State cooperation’ at the Open Universiteit. Her doctoral research was supervised by Rolf Ortlep and Carla Zoethout (both OU and UvA). The doctoral research resulted in a monograph, published in the Human Rights Research Series. Before starting her doctoral research, Lynn worked at the Dutch Council for refugees (VluchtelingenWerk Nederland) and the migration chamber of a regional district court. In 2015, Lynn graduated from the LL.M. Public Law at the VUB in Brussels and she finished her studies at the VU Amsterdam where she graduated from the LL.M. International Migration and Refugee Law in 2016.

    Lynn Hillary is currently a member of the editorial board of the Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper series and is a member of the migration working group of the NJCM (ICJ the Netherlands). 2021-2022, Lynn was the editorial manager for the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten (NTM/NJCM-Bulletin). From September 2020 until December 2021, she coordinated the Migration and Borders working group of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research and is now a member of the Network’s working group. Lynn Hillary is a member of working group on migration law of the NJCM and a member of the Dutch Association on Migration Research and the Research Affiliates network of the Refugee Law Initiative.

  • Publications

    2024

    2023

    • Bulterman, M., Uzman, J., van Ahee, V., Besselink, L., Claes, M., Filius, E., Hillary, L., de Lange, R., Langer, J., Lindeboom, J., Ouwerkerk, J., Schenk, B., & Stremler, M. (2023). The Netherlands. In A. Kornezov (Ed.), Mutual Trust, Mutual Recognition and the Rule of Law = Confiance mutuelle, reconnaissance mutuelle et état de droit = Gegenseitiges Vertrauen, gegenseitige Anerkennung und Rechtsstaatlichkeit (pp. 456-474). (The XXX FIDE Congress in Sofia, 2023 congress publications; Vol. 1). Ciela Norma. https://evropeiskipravenpregled.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fide-publications-vol-1.pdf [details]

    2022

    2021

    2024

    • Hillary, L. (2024). Mutual trust as a general principle of EU law: External European asylum law through the lens of Member State cooperation. (Human Rights Research Series; Vol. 103). Larcier Intersentia. [details]
    • van Schaik, M., & Hillary, L. (2024). Conceptualization Shapes Practice: Apostasy-Based Refugee Claims and International Human Rights Law. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 16(3), 723–738. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huad052 [details]

    2023

    2021

    2018

    • Koffeman, N. R., & Hillary, L. (2018). Mensenrechtelijke zorgen bij de plannen voor herziening van het gemeenschappelijk Europees asielsysteem. NJCM-Bulletin, 43(1), 113-132.

    2023

    2022

    2021

    • Hillary, L. (2021). Interstatelijk vertrouwen buiten de EU-grenzen. Asiel & Migrantenrecht, 12(5), 331.
    • Hillary, L. (2021). Loyale samenwerking in de Awb: Reactie op het VAR-rapport “Europa en het algemeen bestuursrecht”. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Bestuursrecht, 2021(5), 330-332.

    2020

    • Hillary, L. (2020). Uitzonderingen op het interstatelijk vertrouwensbeginsel in het Dublinsysteem in navolging van strafrechtelijke jurisprudentie. Asiel & Migrantenrecht, 11(10), 500-504.

    2018

    • Hillary, L. (2018). Passende steun voor verzoekers die bijzondere procedurele waarborgen behoeven in de grensprocedure: Beoordeling door de beslissingsautoriteiten en rechterlijke toetsing. Journaal Vreemdelingenrecht, 2018(4), 12-21.

    2017

    • Hillary, L. (2017). Wanneer kan grensdetentie van Dublinclaimanten die aan de grens om asiel hebben verzocht o.g.v. art. 6a Vw worden voortgezet? Asiel & Migrantenrecht, 8(4), 194-196.
    • Hillary, L., & Bes, D. J. (2017). Ernstige kinderziektes bij de interpretatie van Paposhvili. Asiel & Migrantenrecht, 8(10), 473-476.

    2024

    • Hillary, L. (2024). Het Europese Migratie- en asielpact: stand van zaken en gemiste kansen. Asiel & Migrantenrecht, 2024(2), 1-13.

    2023

    • Hillary, L. (2023). AB 2023/16. 16. Case note on: ABRvS, 8/09/22, ECLI:NL:RVS:2022:2644 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, 2023(3), 92-100. [details]
    • Hillary, L. (2023). AB 2023/3. 3. Case note on: ABRvS, 6/07/22, ECLI:NL:RVS:2022:1864 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, 2023(1), 16-23. [details]
    • Hillary, L., & Klaassen, M. A. K. (2023). AB 2023/108. 106. Case note on: ABRvS, 11/01/23, ECLI:NL:RVS:2023:70 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, 2023(16), 853-856. [details]

    2022

    2021

    2020

    2019

    • Hillary, L. (2019). Dublinverordening. Materiële deprivatie ná vergunningverlening in andere lidstaat aanleiding voor niet toepassen wederzijds vertrouwensbeginsel. 196. Case note on: ECJ, 19/03/19, ECLI:EU:C:2019:218 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, (18).
    • Hillary, L. (2019). Materiële deprivatie ná vergunningverlening in andere lidstaat aanleiding voor niet toepassen wederzijds vertrouwensbeginsel. 195. Case note on: ECJ, 19/03/19, ECLI:EU:C:2019:219 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, (18).
    • Hillary, L. (2019). Naar Griekenland terugkerende statushouders. Wederzijds vertrouwensbeginsel, bijzondere kwetsbaarheid, materiële deprivatie. 433. Case note on: ABRvS, 15/07/19, ECLI:NL:RVS:2019:2385 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, (37).
    • Hillary, L. (2019). Verwesterde vrouwen in het asielrecht: toetsingskader en bewijslast. 212. Case note on: ABRvS, 21/11/18, ECLI:NL:RVS:2018:3735 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, (19).

    2018

    • Hillary, L. (2018). Wederzijds vertrouwen en art. 4 Handvest bij Europees aanhoudingsbevel. Omvang toetsing. 83. Case note on: ECJ, 25/07/18, ECLI:EU:C:2018:589 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, (9).
    • Hillary, L., & Reneman, A. M. (2018). Het Unierecht vereist niet dat het hoger beroep in asielzaken schorsende werking heeft. 419. Case note on: ECJ, 26/09/18, ECLI:EU:C:2018:775 AB Rechtspraak Bestuursrecht, (44).

    2017

    • Hillary, L. (2017). JV 2017/181. 181. Case note on: ABRvS, 15/06/17, ECLI:NL:RVS:2017:1601 Jurisprudentie Vreemdelingenrecht, (11).

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Hillary, L. (speaker) (6-2023). Conceptualization Shapes Practice: Apostasy-Based Refugee Claims end International Human Rights Law, Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research Toogdag 2023, Groningen.
    • Hillary, L. (speaker) (22-5-2023). Public Law Seminars, Lund University.
    • Hillary, L. (speaker) (24-3-2023). Digitalization in national and EU migration law, EULEN Conference on Artificial Intelligence Systems and EU Law Enforcement, Toledo.
    • Hillary, L. (speaker) (26-11-2022). Mutual Trust in Asylum Cases: a Balancing Act for National Administrative Courts, Ius Commune.
    • Hillary, L. (speaker) (4-7-2022). Mutual trust and fundamental rights, ICON-S Annual conference .

    Others

    2022

    • Hillary, L. (2022). Mutual trust as a general principle of EU law: External European asylum law through the lens of Member State cooperation. [Thesis, fully external, Open Universiteit].

    2023

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  • Ancillary activities
    • NJCM
      Lid van de werkgroep Vreemdelingenrecht
    • NTM/NJCM-Bull.
      Redactiesecretaris
    • Refugee Law Initiative Working Papers
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