Thomas SPIJKERBOER is professor of Migration Law (Department of Constitutional and Administrative law), Migration and Diversity Centre, VU University Amsterdam, www.vu.nl/mdc.
His teaching activities are: Refugee Law and Alien's Law.

He has specialised in Dutch, European and international asylum law, gender issues in migration law, and in procedural aspects of international and domestic migration law. Together with Kees Groenendijk (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) he has lead a research team on issue of transnationality and citizenship, which has led to the publication of five dissertations and two monographs. This project was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Together with James Kennedy (University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Arts) and Halleh Ghorashi (VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences) he leads the Inclusive Thinking Project, funded by VSB Fonds. A major new research field concerns the human costs of border control . He has done research for the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Dutch government.

Thomas Spijkerboer is editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law , International Journal of Law and Context, ( Rechtspraak Vreemdelingenrecht, Jurisprudentie Vreemdelingenrecht and Tekst en Toelichting Vreemdelingenwet 2000.

He is a member of the Odysseus Academic network for legal studies on immigration and asylum in Europe, of the Asylum Commission of the Dutch Refugee Council and of the Standing Committee of Experts on International Immigration, Refugee and Criminal Law.

Research : Thomas Spijkerboer is programme leader of the Research Programme on Migration Law (Migratierecht)

His most recent and important publications include : 

• The European Court of Human Rights and Immigration: Limits and Possibilities (edited volume), Brill, Leiden 2009 (Special Issue of European Journal of Migration and Law, 2009/3)
• Structural Instability. Strasbourg Case Law on Children's Family Reunion, European Journal of Migration and Law 2009, p. 271-293
• Subsidiarity and 'arguability'. The European Court of Human Rights' case law on judicial review in asylum cases, to be published in International Journal of Refugee Law (2009) , p. 48-74
• Women and Immigration Law. New variations on classical feminist themes. London: Routledge-Cavendish (2007), with Sarah van Walsum
• The Human Costs of Border Control. European Journal of Migration and Law, 9(2007), 147-161
• Vluchtelingenrecht. (Refugee law)Nijmegen: Ars Aequi Libri (2005), with B.P. Vermeulen
• "Stereotyping and Acceleration: Gender, Procedural Acceleration and Marginalized Judicial Review in the Dutch Asylum System". In G. Noll (Ed.), Proof, Evidentiary Assessment and Credibility in Asylum Procedures. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (2005)
• The systematic nature of the common European asylum system. In F. Julien-Laferrière, H. Labayle, & Ö. Edström (Eds.), The European Immigration and Asylum Policy: Critical Assessment Five Years After the Amsterdam Treaty. Brussel: Bruylant (2005), with Hemme Battjes
• Full Circle? The personal scope of international protection in the Geneva Convention and the Draft Directive on qualification. In C. Dias Urbano de Sousa & P. Bruycker (Eds.), The emergence of a European Asylum Policy (pp. 167-181). Brussel: Bruylant (2004)
• Het hoger beroep in vreemdelingenzaken. Den Haag: Sdu (2002)
• Subsidiarity in asylum law. The personal scope of international protection. In Daphné Bouteillet-Paquet (Ed.), Subsidiarity protection of refugees in the European Union: Complementing the Geneva Convention? (pp. 19-42). Brussel: Bruylant (2002)
• Het VN-Vrouwenverdrag en het Nederlandse vreemdelingenrecht. Den Haag: Adviescommissie voor Vreemdelingenzaken (2002)
• Man in a Polyster Suit: Sexual Violence in Refugee Law.Hague Yearbook of International Law 2000, 79-85 (2001)
• Gender and Refugee Status, Aldershot: Ashgate (2000)