Profiles

Professor Elspeth Guild

Partner

Elspeth is an internationally acknowledged expert in the field of European immigration law. She is currently Special Advisor to the House of Lords Inquiry into Economic Migration in the EU.

She is frequently requested to make submissions to parliamentary committees on the subject and she acts as an occasional expert to international organisations such as the European Commission and the Council of Europe. She combines a busy practice in the field with a part-time chair as professor of European Migration Law at the University of Nijmegen in Holland.

Professional societies

• Immigration Law Practitioners Association
• JUSTICE
• The Law Society

Further information

• Visiting Professor, London School of Economics
• Member of the Council of Justice
• Professor of European Migration Law, Centre for Migration Law - University of Nijmegen, Holland
• UK expert on the European Network of Academic Experts on Immigration and Asylum (Odysseus)
• Occasional consultant for the European Commission, The Council of Europe and the International Labour Organisation
• Lectures extensively on immigration matters throughout Europe

Publications

• "Free Movement of Person in the European Union" Butterworths with Denis Martin, London 1996
• "The Developing Immigration & Asylum Policies of the European Union" Kluwer Law International 1996, The Hague
• "The European Court of Justice on the European Convention on Human Rights" Kluwer Law International 1998, The Hague
• "Security of Residence for Aliens in Europe" K Groenendijk & H Dogan 1998, Strasbourg
• "Immigration law in the European Community" Kluwer Law International 2001, The Hague
• "International Terrorism and EU Immigration, Asylum and Borders Policy: The Unexpected Victims of 11 September 2001" Kluwer Law International 2003, The Hague
• "The Face of Securitas: Redefining the Relationship of Security and Foreigners in Europe" Oxford University Press
• "Maintaining an independent judiciary in the enlarged EU" The European Lawyer
• "Citizens, Immigrants, Terrorists and Others" "The emergence of a European asylum policy"
• Lawyers Europe, 'Immigration and Trade in Services: The Tale of GATS', co-author with Claire Purdue
• "Borderline personalities", The European Lawyer, June 2005