Members
The Vienna Centre for Migration & Law (VCML) is an interdisciplinary network for scientific exchange on current issues of migration law. Membership is open to academic staff of the University of Vienna who have a research interest in the field of migration. Researchers from other universities can join as associate members.
Members benefit from regular networking meetings, discussions and cooperation within a dedicated research group.
If you are interested, please contact Ms. Vesna Roch at: migration.rewi@univie.ac.at
Andreas Schloenhardt
Andreas Schloenhardt is Professor of Criminal Law in the School of Law at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and Honorary Professor for Foreign and International Criminal Law in the Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Vienna. He frequently serves as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Council of Europe on topic relating to smuggling of migrants and organised crime. Professor Schloenhardt holds a PhD in Law from The University of Adelaide. Prior to his position at The University of Queensland, he was a lecturer at The University of Adelaide Law School.
Professor Schloenhardt's principal areas of research include organised crime, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, immigration and refugee law, criminal law and criminal justice. He is the chief editor of the Oxford University Press Commentary on the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols against Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons and has published extensively on irregular migration, smuggling of migrants, and national and international laws relating to migration and the intersection with criminal law. His work in this field has been cited in judicial decisions by the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Austria.
Barbara Cargnelli-Weichselbaum
Barbara Cargnelli-Weichselbaum is assistant professor at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna. She is an expert in constitutional law, administrative law, and fundamental and human rights. In addition to several publications on the subject of family reunification, her research interests lie in the area of fundamental and human rights as well as the European law requirements for social security for foreigners entitled to asylum or subsidiary protection. With a particular focus on the European and constitutional law perspective, her research also includes legal regulations banning begging, the strictness of which is due to the aim of preventing begging by travelers affected by poverty.
