Dr. Moritz Baumgärtel

Biography

Moritz Baumgärtel is an Assistant Professor at University College Roosevelt (UCR) and a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Université libre de Bruxelles, and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, along with an LLM in Public International Law (cum laude) from Utrecht University. Baumgärtel also graduated summa cum laude from UCR, where he studied law, sociology, and international relations. Previously, he was a lecturer at University College Utrecht and Tilburg Law School. He has conducted research at Utrecht University and Université libre de Bruxelles and has held visiting positions at prestigious law schools, including the University of Michigan, Duke University, and iCourts at the University of Copenhagen. In 2021, he was awarded the Fulbright-Schuman Scholarship at the Law School of the University of California in Los Angeles. He is the author of 'Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts Dilemma Migrant Vulnerability' (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and the editor of 'Theorizing Local Migration Law Governance' (with Sara Miellet, Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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