Research Interests
Asylum and migration, EU integration, human rights law, legal mobilization
Research Area(s)
Europe
Profile
Luc Leboeuf is a Head of Research Group in the Department of Law and Anthropology, where he heads the VULNER research project funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 work programme (grant agreement No. 870845) (www.vulner.eu)
He is also a visiting Professor in the law faculty of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), where he teaches classes in migration law and EU law.
Luc holds a PhD in Law from the Catholic University of Louvain since 2015. Before joining the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher, he practised migration law at a Belgian law firm, where he qualified as a lawyer (‘avocat’). He also taught migration law as a Guest Professor in the law faculty of the University of Antwerp (2017 and 2018) and of the University of Louvain (2015). He held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law (2019) and at the Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford (2014). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Revue du droit des étrangers and the Tijdschrift voor Vreemdelingenrecht.