Jens VEDSTED-HANSEN is Professor of Law at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.  

His research interests include: Human Rights Law, Immigration and Refugee Law and Fundamental Rights in General Public Law.  

His most recent and important publications include:   
 

• Opholdsret og forsörgelse. Forsörgelsesbetingelser i udlaendingeretten og socialretlige regler om forsörgelsesadgang for udenlandske statsborgere (Residence rights and maintenance. Maintenance requirements under the aliens' act and social welfare regulations concerning foreign nationals' eligibility for social benefits), DJÖF forlag, Copenhagen, 1997. 
• Midlertidigt asyl i norden (Temporary asylum in the Nordic States), Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen 1999 (with K. U. Kjaer, T. Einarsen and J. W. Dacyl).
• VEDSTED-HANSEN, Jens, NOLL, Gregor: "Non-communitarians : refugee and asylum policies", in : Philip Alston (ed.) : The EU and Human rights, Oxford University press,  1999.
• CHRISTENSEN, HANSEN, HOFMANN et al.: "Udlaendigeret (Aliens Law), 2nd ed., Jurist- og Oekonomforbundets Forlag, Copenhagen, 2000.