Good morning everyone. Before I start, I will start with a very, very formal remark. So this

session and the entire workshop is going to be recorded. So if you are not confident with that,

unfortunately, there is no solution unless to leave the workshop, but we hope that you're

confident with that and will stay with us. So once again, good morning everyone. My name is

Anne-Cépharra. I'm a professor for Public Law, Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University

of Erlangen-Nürnberg and also the Vice Speaker of the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg,

which you have already been introduced to yesterday if you joined the workshop. But I,

well, take the opportunity to say just a few words. I'm first of all very, very happy to welcome you

all on behalf both of the CEN, the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, and also of the

FFFT, the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Project that has organized this workshop, well,

in cooperation with CREN and that is also situated at our university, of course also at other

universities, but amongst others at FAU. And we are very, very happy to have that workshop here.

And also on behalf of CREN, I can say that for our center dedicated to human rights research is

really an honor to have that project at our university and to have so many interesting

cooperations and workshops of which this is the first one, but I'm very sure that there are still

a lot to follow. So as I said, we are really especially honored to cooperate with this team

and also to host the workshop today, although unfortunately not physically in Erlangen, but at

least in this very nice Zoom format that you are all acquainted with by now, I think. Before I

introduce our second day and say a few words about what we enjoyed yesterday already, let me thank

all my colleagues who have organized this workshop, in particular Petra Bändel and Lorenz Wiese and

their entire team for putting that excellent workshop together and also for creating this

fantastic program and doing all the organization that is necessary in the background, even if it's

only an online workshop. There's still a lot of things to do. You don't have to provide coffee,

but instead you have to make sure that all the technical details are really working and that

everyone is integrated at the right point of time. So it is a lot of work and I really want to thank

you very much for that. It's a really impressive program and I already enjoyed it yesterday and

I'm still, we're gonna enjoy it again today. So yesterday we have spent the first day of the

workshop with a focus on current challenges for forced migration on the international level. So

the first panel critically evaluated the potential of the two global compacts for migration and on

refugees and one of the core issues there was that the political processes surrounding the compact

show a deep tension between state interests on the one hand and human rights principles on the

other and that by setting up the two separate compacts for refugees on the one hand and migrants

on the other hand, we risk ignoring a broad range of mobile persons that fit neither category. While

both compacts can of course be praised for being the first time on the international level that

countries of the global north and the global south actually speak together about migration

governance, the problem of fair responsibility sharing however remains unsolved and I think

that is a topic that is also gonna be concerning us also today in our discussions respective to

the European Union. Yesterday evening then we had the honor to listen to a keynote of Professor

Thomas Gameltov Hansen, one of the most outstanding international legal scholars in the field of

refugee and asylum law and in his remarkable keynote Thomas reminded us of the many changes

and developments that refugee law has undergone over the last 75 years or so. Not only have the

political circumstances changed dramatically, also the understanding and interpretation of refugee

law is in constant evolution. Thomas not only elaborately introduced us to the historic origins

of evolutive interpretation but he also introduced legal evolution as a social practice involving

constant practices of contestation and assertion of meaning. He identified a number of exogenous

and endogenous factors that determine this social practice and then concluded that an

evolutionary perspective on refugee law may help us first to look critically at decentralized

regimes that are characterizing the field of refugee law, second to recognize and understand

contradictory and competing interpretations and then finally also to develop a critical gaze of

the practices of both refugee lawyers and states in the field. In his conclusion he then tried to