Academic prize for DIHR researcher

Head of Research, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, is the recipient of the K.G. Idman Award 2013 for best research in international law.
The Idman Award is announced every third year by the Finnish Lawyers Association and this year covers the period 2010-12.

- I am very honoured and proud to be receiving this award, but also humbled, since the award has been granted to several truly outstanding academics in the past, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen said upon receiving the news.

Thomas will receive the award and a prize sum on “Legal Cultural Day” 8 November 2013 in Finland, where he will also present his research. Past recipients include Martti Koskenniemi, Atle Grahl-Madsen and Ole Spiermann.

Path-breaking work
The research for which the award is given is Thomas’ book, Access to Asylum: International refugee law and the globalization of migration control, which was published in 2011 with Cambridge University Press as part of the prestigious “Cambridge Studies in Comparative and International Law” series.

The book is addressing what may well be the most pressing challenges in international refugee law today, namely the emergence of extraterritorial and privatized migration control.

The volume has been described as “path-breaking”, providing both a systematic legal analysis and taking on the wider debates in human rights, general international law and political science linked to this issue.

Read more about the book here

See previous winners of the K.G. Idman Award (Finnish)