Author: Marie-Benedicte Dembour

Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at Ghent University, Belgium. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project ‘DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication’ (ERC-AdG-2018-834044). She is the author of Who Believes in Human Rights (CUP 2006) and When Humans Become Migrants (OUP 2015)

Marie-Benedicte Dembour

Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at Ghent University, Belgium. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project ‘DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication’ (ERC-AdG-2018-834044). She is the author of Who Believes in Human Rights (CUP 2006) and When Humans Become Migrants (OUP 2015)

Gatherings Threads Webinar Series in honour of Sally Engle Merry (1944-2020)

Heeding anthropological mottos in the study of law

December, 2020 / By Marie-Benedicte Dembour and Julie Billaud

When: 11 December 2020 / 2-3.30 pm CET Link: https://zoom.us/j/93210372616… ID: 93210372616 Password: 4JzWZ6 Abstract Even though I have been […]

History of human rights Note One-Shots

What rights for migrants? What the European Court of Human Rights says and does not say

March, 2015 / By Marie-Benedicte Dembour

This is all over the newspapers: MPs have found that the United Kingdom detains ‘far too many [migrants] unnecessarily and for