Vincent Chetail is the Director of the Programme for the Study of Global Migration and Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He is a Board Member of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and, from 2004 to 2012, was the Research Director of the Geneva Academy.

Professor Chetail is Editor-in-Chief of the Refugee Survey Quarterly, member of the founding editorial board of Oxford Bibliographies in International Law and General Editor of the series Organisation internationale et relations internationales (Bruylant, Brussels). He is also Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative (University of London), as well as member of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, the Advisory Council of the Global Migration Policy Associates and the General Assembly of the International Institute of Human Rights – Strasbourg.

His main fields of research are related to public international law, migration and armed conflicts. He is currently writing a textbook on international migration law which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Vincent Chetail has been Visiting Professor at several universities, such as the European University Institute – Florence (2010), the University of Paris XI (since 2006) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (since 2008). He regularly serves as a consultant to governments, NGOs and international organizations (including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration).

Selected Publications Related to Global Migration Issues:

Books

• Code de droit international des migrations, Bruxelles: Bruylant (Collection: Codes en poche - N°27), 2008, 1744 p.
  

• Mondialisation, migration et droits de l’homme: le droit international en question / Globalisation, migration and human rights: international law under review (editor), Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2007, 728 p.

• Migration and International Legal Norms, (co-edited with Professor Alexander Aleinikoff), The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2003, 353 p.

• Switzerland and the International Protection of Refugees (co-edited with Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas), The Hague - London - New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 285 p.
   
• La Convention de Genève du 28 juillet 1951 relative au statut des réfugiés: 50 ans après – bilan et perspectives, (co-edited with Professor Jean-François Flauss), Publication de l’Institut International pour les Droits de l’Homme et du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés, Brussels: Bruylant, 2001, 456 p.

Reports

• The European Union and the Challenges of Forced Migration: From Economic Crisis to Protection Crisis? (co-author with C. Bauloz), Research Report: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 2011.

Articles/Chapters

• "Sources of International Migration Law", in: B. Opeskin, R. Perruchoud & J. Redpath-Cross (eds.), Foundations of International Migration Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 56-92.

• "Are Refugee Rights Human Rights? Some Unorthodox Questioning on the Relations between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law", in: R. Rubio Marin (ed.), Migrations and Human Rights, Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (forthcoming).

• "The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families", in: P. Alston & F. Megret (eds.), The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, 2nd edn., Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

• "Is Switzerland an EU Member State? Asylum Law Harmonization through the Backdoor" (co-author with C. Bauloz), in: M. Fullerton, H. Lambert & J. McAdam (eds.), The European Effect on Refugee Law Worldwide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (forthcoming).

• "Droit international des migrations: fondements et limites du multilatéralisme", in: R. Mehdi & H. Ghérari (eds.), La société internationale face aux défis migratoires, Brussels: Bruylant, 2012, pp. 32-54.

• "Théorie et pratique de l’asile en droit international classique: étude sur les origines conceptuelles et normatives du droit international des réfugiés", Revue générale de droit international public, 2011, Tome 115, No. 3, pp. 625-652.
   
• "Paradigm and Paradox of the Migration-Development Nexus: The New Border for North-South Dialogue", German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 51, 2008, pp. 183-215.
  
• "International Legal Protection of Migrants and Refugees: Ghetto or Incremental Protection? Some Preliminary Comments", in: K. Padmaja (ed.), Law of Refugees: Global Perspectives, New Delhi: ICFAI University Press, 2008, pp. 31-46.
   
• "Migration, droits de l’homme et souveraineté: le droit international dans tous ses Etats", in: Vincent Chetail (dir.), Mondialisation, migration et droits de l’homme : le droit international en question / Globalisation, migration and human rights: international law under review, Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2007, pp.13-133
   
• "The Implementation of the Qualification Directive in France : One Step Forward and Two Steps Backwards", in: Karin Zwaan (ed.), The Qualification Directive: Central Themes, Problem Issues and Implementation in Selected Members States, Nijmegen : Wolf Legal Publishers, 2007, pp.87-101.
   
• "Le Code communautaire relatif au franchissement des frontières: une nouvelle étape dans la consolidation de l’acquis Schengen", in: Europe , août-septembre 2006, No.8-9, pp.4-7.
   
• "Le Comité des Nations Unies contre la torture et l’expulsion des étrangers: dix ans de jurisprudence", in: Revue suisse de droit international et européen, 2006, No.1, pp.63-104.
   
• "Le droit des réfugiés à l’épreuve des droits de l’homme: bilan de la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme sur l'interdiction du renvoi des étrangers menacés de torture et de traitements inhumains ou dégradants", in: Revue belge de droit international, 2004, Vol.37, No.1, pp.155-210.
   
• "La réforme française de l’asile: prélude à la banalisation européenne du droit des réfugiés", in: Journal de droit international, 2004, Vol.131, No.3, pp.817-865.
   
• "Voluntary Repatriation in Public International Law: Concepts and Contents", in: Vincent Chetail (ed.), Voluntary Repatriation: Achievements & Prospects, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.1-32.
   
• "Freedom of Movement and Transnational Migrations: A Human Rights Perspective", in: Alexander Aleinikoff & Vincent Chetail (eds.), Migration and International Legal Norms, The Hague – London – New York, T. M. C. Asser, 2003, pp.47-60.
   
• "Le principe de non-refoulement et le statut de réfugié en droit international", in: Vincent Chetail & Jean-François Flauss (eds.), La Convention de Genève du 28 juillet 1951 relative au statut des réfugiés – 50 ans après: bilan et perspectives, Publication de l’Institut International pour les Droits de l’Homme et du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés, Brussels, Bruylant, 2001, pp.3-61.