Dr. Moritz Baumgärtel
Assistant Professor
Books and edited volumes Journal articles Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2026. Legal Status, Civic Stratification, and the Structural Limit of the Human Rights of Migrants. International Journal of Constitutional Law. Baumgärtel, Moritz, and Sarah Ganty. 2024. On the Basis of Migratory Vulnerability: Augmenting Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Context of Migration. International Journal of Law in Context 20, no 1: 92-112 (open access) Timmer, Alexandra, Moritz Baumgärtel, Louis Kotzé, and Lineke Slingenberg. 2021. The Potential and Pitfalls of the Vulnerability Concept for Human Rights. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 39, no. 3: 190–197 (open access) Oomen, Barbara, Moritz Baumgärtel, Sara Miellet, Elif Durmuş, and Tihomir Sabchev. 2021. Strategies of Divergence: Local Authorities, Law and Discretionary Spaces in Migration Governance. Journal of Refugee Studies 34, no. 4: 3608–3628 (open access) Oomen, Barbara, Moritz Baumgärtel, Sara Miellet, Tihomir Sabchev, and Elif Durmuş. 2021. Of Bastions and Bulwarks: A Multiscalar Understanding of Local Bordering Practices in Europe. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 10, no. 3: 16–29 (open access) Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2020. Facing the Challenge of Migratory Vulnerability in the European Court of Human Rights. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 38, no. 1: 12-29 (open access) Baumgärtel, Moritz, and Barbara Oomen. 2019. Pulling Human Rights Back In? Local Authorities, International Law and the Reception of Undocumented Migrants. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 51, no. 2: 172-191 (open access) Oomen, Barbara, and Moritz Baumgärtel. 2018. Frontier Cities: The Rise of Local Authorities as an Opportunity for International Human Rights Law. European Journal of International Law 29, no. 2: 607-630 (open access) Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2014. Perspectives on the ‘User’: Unpacking a Concept for Human Rights Research. Human Rights & International Legal Discourse 8, no. 2: 142-157 Ganty, Sarah, and Moritz Baumgärtel. 2014. Effective Remedies as Capabilities: Towards a User Perspective to Human Rights of Migrants in Belgium. Human Rights & International Legal Discourse 8, no. 2: 215-234 Baumgärtel, Moritz, Dorothea Staes, and Francisco Javier Mena Parras. 2014. Hierarchy, Coordination, or Conflict? Global Law Theories and the Question of Human Rights Integration. European Journal of Human Rights 3: 326-354 Rrustemi, Arlinda, and Moritz Baumgärtel. 2014. Shooting in the Dark: Evaluating Kosovo's Amnesty Law and the Role of International Actors. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 6, no. 2: 115-140 Scott-Smith, Giles, and Moritz Baumgärtel. 2011. New Paradigms, Old Hierarchies? Problems and Possibilities of US Supremacy in a Networked World. International Politics 48, no. 2: 271-289 Book chapters Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2025. Cities . In Vincent Chetail (ed.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law , 43-49 (Edward Elgar) Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2024. The European Court of Human Rights, Upending Migrant Rights: On Marie-Bénédicte Dembour’s When Humans Become Migrants . In Alice Margaria & Larissa Vetters (eds.), Leading Works in Law and Anthropology , 90-111 (Routledge) Baumgärtel, Moritz, and Franziska Pett. 2022. The ‘Safe Harbor’ of Berlin: Socio-legal Constellations and Complex Strategies of Divergence. In Moritz Baumgärtel and Sara Miellet (eds.), Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance , 87-111 (Cambridge University Press) Baumgärtel, Moritz, and Sara Miellet. 2022. Introduction: Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance. In Moritz Baumgärtel and Sara Miellet (eds.), Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance , 1-30 (Cambridge University Press) Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2021. Dispute Settlement. in Helmut Aust and Janne Nijman (eds.), Research Handbook on International Law and Cities , 147-157 (Edward Elgar) (open access via UU repository ) Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2021. Local Authorities, Poverty and the Implementation of Human Rights Norms. in Marten Kjaerum, Martha Davis and Amanda Lyons (eds.), Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty , 279-294 (Edward Elgar) (open access via UU repository ) Oomen, Barbara, Moritz Baumgärtel, and Elif Durmuş. 2021. Accelerating Cities, Constitutional Brakes? Local Authorities Between Global Challenges and Domestic Law. In Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Gerhard van der Schyff, Maarten Stremler and Maartje de Visser (eds.), European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2020 , 249-272 (T.M.C. Asser Press) (open access via UU repository ) Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2018. ‘Part of the Game’: Government Strategies against European Litigation Concerning Migrant Rights. In Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts (eds.), The Changing Practices of International Law , 103-128 (Cambridge University Press) (open access via UU repository ) Ganty, Sarah, and Moritz Baumgärtel. 2018. Établir un droit juste de la migration. in Benoit Frydman and Caroline Bricteux (eds.), Les grands défis du droit global Oomen, Barbara, and Moritz Baumgärtel. 2014. Human Rights Cities . in Mark Gibney and Anja Mihr (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Human Rights (vol. 2), 709-729 (Sage) Blog posts Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2026. Forays into reality: UN treaty bodies confront xenophobia but leave its legal boundaries unclear . Verfassungsblog , March 5 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2025. Why the European Court of Human Rights should adopt an animus-based approach to xenophobic discrimination . Strasbourg Observers , July 4 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2024. Whatever happened to Greek hotspots? The routine handling of routine violations in M.A. and others v. Greece . Strasbourg Observers , October 11 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2020. COVID-19 and the vulnerability of migrants. Fifteen Eighty Four: The Cambridge Blog , June 29 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2020. Reaching the dead-end: M.N. and others and the question of humanitarian visas. Strasbourg Observers , May 7 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2019. The dilemma of migrant rights. Fifteen Eighty Four: The Cambridge Blog , July 9 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2018. High risk, high reward: Taking the question of Italy’s involvement in Libyan ‘pullback’ policies to the European Court of Human Rights. EJIL Talk! , May 14 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2017. V.M. and others v. Belgium : The tragic story of yet another ‘disappeared case’.Strasbourg Observers , January 18 Baumgärtel, Moritz. 2014. The poverty of European migration policy. Open Democracy , October 2
