Özlem Gürakar-Skribeland

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Visiting address Domus Juridica Kristian Augusts gate 17 8. floor Oslo
Postal address Postboks 6706 St. Olavs plass 0130 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Refugee law
  • Migration law
  • Human rights law
  • Public international law
  • EU law
  • Turkey

Özlem Gürakar-Skribeland participates as postdoctoral researcher in the BEYOND project funded by the European Research Council. Her current research explores the interaction and mutual impact between the international refugee law regime and Turkey's protection regime.

Background

Gürakar-Skribeland grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from Galatasaray University, Turkey, and did her Master of Laws (LLM) as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, USA.

She has a PhD from the University of Oslo. Her thesis Forced Return of Migrants to Transit Countries was part of the MIGMA project (Transnationalism from above and below: Migration management and how migrants manage) funded by the Research Council of Norway. Taking the EU Return Directive as a starting point and frame, and using return to Turkey as a case, Özlem analysed the lawfulness of returning irregular migrants by force to transit countries.

She is qualified as a lawyer in Turkey, England and the USA, and has practiced law at international law firms in Istanbul and London.

Tags: EEA and Europe, Refugees, Human Rights, Migration, Immigration law, Turkey, Sociology of Law

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