CURRICULUM VITAE
Name
Department
Current Appointment
Dr Dallal Edwina STEVENS
School of Law, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
d.e.stevens@warwick.ac.uk , 02476 523289
Associate Professor (Reader)
Education
2011
1990
1986-1987
1983-1986
PhD by publication (Warwick)
Qualified as Solicitor
Guildford College of Law (Law Society Final Examination)
University of Hull (LL.B First Class Honours; placed top)
Appointments Held
2015
2006–
2005–2006
2002–2009
2002–2006
1991–2005
1990–1991
1988–1990
Associate Professor (Reader), School of Law, University of
Warwick
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) School of Law,
University of Warwick
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Warwick
Trustee, Immigration Advisory Service
Trustee, Electronic Immigration Network
Lecturer, School of Law, University of Warwick
Temporary Lecturer, School of Law, University of Warwick
Trainee Solicitor with City firm of Commercial Lawyers,
Norton Rose (Completed).
Academic Distinctions and Awards
2015
Warwick University Teaching Excellence Award
2006
Warwick University Teaching Excellence Award –
Commendation
1984-86 (University Prizes)W. Taylor Memorial Fund Prize; Lionel Rosen Departmental
Prize; J. Lewenstein Prize in Law; Departmental Prize
(Sweet & Maxwell); Josephine Onoh Memorial Prize for
Public International Law; Prize for Conflicts of Law; Prize for
EEC Law; Dissertation Prize
Editorial Boards
(2002-present) Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law ; (2007-present) Law and
Humanities; (2008-2011) Butterworths Immigration Law Service; (2005-2007)
HEADLEINS, EIN Bulletin
Professional Bodies
- (2002-2009) Trustee for Immigration Advisory Service
- (2002-2006) Electronic Immigration Network
- Establishment of a new Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) section on Immigration and
Refugee Law (2000-); now Migration Law
- (1997-2000) Convenor of SPTL Competition Law Section
- Member of Migration Law Network; International Association of Refugee Law Judges;
Society of Legal Scholars; Socio-Legal Studies Association; Immigration Law
Practitioners’ Association; International Association for the Study of Forced Migration;
Electronic Immigration Network
Research
My research interests lie mainly in refugee and asylum law and policy, migration, and
human rights. I have published a single-authored book, one co-edited collection,
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numerous book chapters, articles and reports on current developments in the law as
well as on historical and comparative aspects of asylum and refugee status. I
disseminate my work regularly through conferences, workshops and media
broadcasts. Some key publications are:
Books
- S. Kneebone D. Stevens & L. Baldassar eds, Refugee Protection and the Role of
Law: Conflicting Identities (Routledge, 2014); i-xiv; 323
- UK Asylum Law and Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (London:
Thomson/ Sweet & Maxwell, 2004); vi-466
Journal Articles
-‘Rights, Needs or Assistance? The Role of the UNHCR in Refugee Protection in the
Middle East’, International Journal of Human Rights, Special Issue, The strengths and
weaknesses of regional protection frameworks for refugees (forthcoming)
- ‘What do we mean by “protection”?’ (2013) 20 International Journal of Minority &
Group Rights Special Issue, C. Harvey & S. Juss eds, Critical Issues in Refugee Law 1,
233-262
- ‘ Legal Status, Labelling, and Protection: the Case of Iraqi ‘Refugees’ in Jordan’
International Journal of Refugee Law (forthcoming)
-‘Asylum seekers and the Right to Access Health Care’ (2010) Northern Ireland Legal
Quarterly) No 4, 363-390
-‘Asylum-seeking Families in Current Legal Discourse’ (2010) 32(1) Journal of Social
Welfare and Family Law, 5-22
-‘The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002: Secure borders, Safe haven?’
(2004) 67(1) Modern Law Review 616-631
-‘The Migration of the Romanian Roma to the UK: A Contextual Study’ (2003) 5
European Journal of Migration and Law 1-23
-‘The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999: A Missed Opportunity?’ (2001) 64 Modern
Law Review 413-438
-‘The Asylum and Immigration Act 1996: Erosion of the Right to seek Asylum’ (1998)
61 Modern Law Review 207-222
Book Chapters
- The humaneness of EU asylum law and policy’ in D. Kostakopoulou & N. Ferreira,
The Human Face of the European Union: Is EU Law and Policy Humane Enough?
(CUP, forthcoming 2015)
- .‘Shifting conceptions of refugee identity and protection: European and Middle
Eastern approaches’ in S. Kneebone, D. Stevens & L. Baldassar eds, Refugee
Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities (Routledge, 2014) 73-97
- .‘Law, Identity and Protection: Concluding Reflections’ with S. Kneebone & L.
Baldassar in S. Kneebone, D. Stevens & L. Baldassar eds, Refugee Protection and
the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities (Routledge, 2014), 90% contribution, 273-285
-‘Between East and West: the Case of Israel’ in H. Lambert et al eds. The European
Protection Regime and its Worldwide Effects (CUP, 2013), 132-155
-‘Asylum Seekers, detention and the law: morality in abeyance?’ in S Juss ed., The
Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Theory and Policy (Ashgate, 2013), 395422
- Butterworths Immigration Law Service, Parts 2A Asylum Statutory Material; 2B
Asylum Documents, quarterly updates (invited contributor)(2008-2011)
-‘The Asylum Seeking Family’ in R. Probert ed., Family Life and the Law (Ashgate
2007), 223-245
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-‘Asylum Seekers In Europe: Time for a Rethink?’ in P.Shah ed., The Challenge of
Asylum to Legal Systems (Cavendish 2005), 13-33
-‘Roma Asylum Applicants in the UK: ‘Scroungers’ or ‘Scapegoats’?’in J van Selm, K
Kamanga, J Morrison, A Nadig, S Spoljar Vrzina and L van Willigen eds., The Refugee
Convention at 50: a View from Forced Migration Studies (USA: Lexington Books,
2003), 145-60
- ‘Asylum Law in the UK: New Beginnings or a False Dawn?’ in J McEldowney ed.
Anglo-German Approaches to Human Rights (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003) 69-83
- ‘UK Asylum Law and Policy: Lessons from History?’, in eds. F Nicholson & P Twomey,
Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy (Ashgate 1998) 9-33
- ‘Refugee Law and the Rights of the Child’, in Families Across Frontiers, eds. N. Lowe
and G. Douglas (Kluwer Law, 1996) 449-464
Media
- ‘Four mistakes Theresa May has made about the crisis in the Mediterranean’, The
Conversation, 14 May 2015
-‘Why Europe must do more for refugees’, Lacuna Magazine (www.lacuna.org.uk), 28
April 2015;
-‘Into the Fire: The Hidden Victims of Austerity’, Lacuna Magazine, 2 July 2014
-I have undertaken a number of interviews, broadcasts and consultations, inter alia: Sky
News (Dermot Murnaghan; Adam Boulton); Radio 5; BBC Radio 4; BBC Westminster
Hour; BBC Cov & Warwickshire; Radio Free Europe; CNSNews.com; BBC Midlands
Today; Central News; Birmingham Sunday Mercury
Research Funding
- British Academy, The effect of legal status on the social welfare and human rights of
Iraqi ‘refugees’ in Jordan - an interdisciplinary and multi-national pilot study, February
2010-September 2011, £6,714
- Arts and Humanities Board, Research Leave Scheme, Book Project UK Asylum Law
and Policy,2002, £9,026
- Warwick University Legal Research Institute, various research projects, 1998-2015,
£4,228
- Warwick University Legal Research Institute, Workshop Refugees, Protection, Identity
and the Refugee Convention – 60 Years on, Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, 2-3 May
2011, £5,000
- Monash-Warwick Strategic Funding, Planning for Workshop on Refugees, Protection,
Identity and the Refugee Convention – 60 Years on, Prof Susan Kneebone, Monash
Law School, 2009, Aus $5,110
- Research and Teaching Development Fund, University of Warwick, ‘The Refugee
Convention at 50 - The Way Forward’, International Association of Refugee Law Judges
Conference, Pretoria, July 2001, £2,220
- Research and Teaching Development Fund, University of Warwick, The Migration of
the Roma to the United Kingdom: A Study of Law and Policy’, 2001, £4,354
July 2015
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