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William Hamilton Byrne

William Hamilton Byrne

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16, 2300 København S, 6B Bygning 6B, 6B-2-15

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

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I am Assistant Professor in Global Mobility Law at the MOBILE Centre of Excellence. My research is grounded in international legal theory and explores foundational issues concerning the structuring of international law and change in international law. I work across a number of legal domains, including public international law, international migration law, international human rights law, international economic law, and international law and technology.

My current research focuses on:

  • the infrastructuring of international law
  • the application of mobilities theory to understand international law
  • the use of empirical techniques to analyse processes of legal normative change

I am a current recipient of the DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant (2026-2030) for my project 'Legal Evolution in International Law,'  funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, which explores how the international law that regulates the global mobility of persons, goods, services, and capital develops over time.

I have published widely in leading international law journals and have co-edited special issues, firstly in the Nordic Journal of International Law on Nordic approaches to interdisciplinary international law, and secondly in the German Law Journal on Legal Infrastructures. 

I am course co-ordinator and lecturer for the courses Legal Reasoning and Argumentation and International Migration Law. I am an organizer of the PhD course on Social Sciences Methods for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, developed in collaboration with the Geneva Graduate Institute International Law Department and the Central European University Department of Legal Studies. 

Prior to joining MOBILE, I completed a LLM in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam, and my PhD at the iCourts Centre of Excellence at the University of Copenhagen, on the subject of the influence of legal scholarship on the development of international law.

 

CV

2017-2020 Phd: iCourts

Keywords

  • Faculty of Law
  • international law
  • International Legal Theory
  • Sociology of international law
  • jurisprudence
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • International Migration Law

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