Welcome back everybody. I hope you enjoyed your break and are still digesting the first

panel that we organized in the frame of this online workshop, Flight, Governance and Human

Rights. And it's now my pleasure to introduce to you our keynote speaker, Professor Gamlentoft

Hansen. I am sure that many of you are familiar with him. Nevertheless, I want to use the

opportunity to present to you whom we have the honor to talk to tonight or to this evening.

So Thomas Gamlentoft Hansen is a professor with special responsibilities in migration

and refugee law at the University of Copenhagen. In addition, he is an associate professor at

the Faculty of Law at Oslo University and honorary professor at Aarhus University. Professor

Gamlentoft Hansen received his PhD in international law from Aarhus University, as well as a master

of science in refugee studies from the University of Oxford and the master of arts in political

science from the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on international refugee

law, human rights and the relationship between international law and politics. And he's the

author and editor of several books to mention all of which would certainly exceed the scope

of this brief introduction. So I just want to mention a few. His book publications include

Access to Asylum, International Refugee Law and the Globalization of Migration Control,

as well as Tracing the Roles of Soft Law and Human Rights, The Power of Legality, International

Law and its Practices. And I think I just mentioned one more, as I considered very interesting,

as Protecting the Rights of Others. I think that's an issue that we should also be talking

about more in these days. So on top of that, Thomas Gamlentoft Hansen is a regular commentator

on asylum and immigration matters in Nordic and international media. And he has consulted

a number of international organizations, governments and NGOs and previously served

as a member of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board. So I think that makes him the perfect

candidate for our keynote this evening in the frame of our workshop and in this project

that we're just starting here at the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg, as well

as our partner institutions in Bonn and Osnabrück that have been introduced before. So today

Professor Gamlentoft Hansen will give a keynote on Evolutions in International Refugee Law

and Governance and we are very much looking forward to it. And I just want to mention

again as during the rest of our workshop, you as the audience are of course welcome

to raise any kind of questions or comments via the Q&A function. It may be listed as

F&A if it's a German Zoom version and you can find it on the bottom of the screen. You

can find Q&A or F&A and there you're welcome to enter your comments and questions. And

then in the Q&A section, my colleague Professor Petra Bändel and me are going to cluster

and hand back these comments and questions to Professor Gamlentoft Hansen. So thank you

very much for being here, especially as we know that you're on holidays and that you

have to carve out this evening's speech. And Professor Gamlentoft Hansen, the floor is

yours. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, Lawrence, for this generous introduction.

And I also want to take the opportunity to thank Marcus, Petra, Frank, Andreas, Elga,

Anousheh and Joanne for their role in setting up this conference and congratulate you all

for the very timely initiative of establishing this new institute. It's also I think a nice

segue to talk about the theme of this keynote, namely, the evolutions in international refugee

law and governance in terms of looking back where we've come from and how these things

have developed over time and to ponder the kind of directions that things might take

as we look forward as the first panel of today also was ended on. And I want to start this

lecture, see if I've got this right, by showing you a picture, in this case, actually three

of them, each in their own way speaking to my home country, Denmark's engagement with

the international refugee regime during the past seven decades. So this first picture

is a picture of Knud Larsen. He was a Danish civil servant who in July 1951 became president

of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries, charged with negotiating the final text of the 1951

Refugee Convention. And Mr. Larsen turned out to be quite the skilled diplomat. So you

might think of him as a precursor to David Donoghue that you heard just previously, who