Prof. Elspeth Guild

Professor Elspeth Guild holds a Global Chair in Social Justice at the University of Liverpool and is Emerita Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands and Legal Counsel for the London based law firm, Kingsley Napley. She is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. She regularly advises EU and Council of Europe institutions on migration and asylum related matters. She has written studies for the European Parliament on the European dimension of the refugee crisis 2016, Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on migration in 2020 and Visas for Human Rights Defenders 2024. She also advises the Council of Europe and has written two Issue Papers for the Commissioner for Human Rights, one on the right to leave a country the other on criminalization of migration. In 2022 she assisted the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly with an analysis of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum resulting in resolution 2416 (2022). Her most recent book is entitled Monitoring Border Violence in the EU: Frontex in Focus. Taylor & Francis, 2023