It’s our great pleasure today to welcome Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova as an IntLawGrrls contributor. Vladislava is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden. She is a lecturer in Migration Law and Human Rights Law and the director of the Migration Law courses. Her research interests are within the areas of international migration law, international refugee law, international human rights law and EU law. Vladislava’s publications include one monograph ‘Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law’ (Cambridge University Press, 2017, recipient of the Lund Society of Humanities and Social Sciences Award), one co-edited volume ‘Seeking Asylum in the European Union. Selected Protection Issues Raised by the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System’ (Brill, 2015), and various book chapters and articles. As a result of successful research grant applications, she is currently working on a project on positive obligations in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

 

Her first post today discusses her newly published book with Cambridge University Press ‘Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States’ Positive Obligations in European Law’ (2017) and the more recent developments in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights under Article 4 of the (ECHR): the right not to be held in slavery, servitude and forced labour and not to be subjected to human trafficking.

Heartfelt welcome!