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Dagmar Soennecken |
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Assistant
Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration & Department of Social
Science Biography
Dagmar
Soennecken is cross-appointed between the School of Public Policy
and Administration (SPPA) and the Department of Social Sciences (Law and
Society Program). She is also a faculty member of the SPPA’s executive-style
graduate programme (MPPAL),
a fellow at McLaughlin College,
affiliated with the Canadian Centre for
German and European Studies (CCGES) and with the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York.
In 2009, she (together
with a group of colleagues from across the university) successfully competed
for a grant from the European Commission that established a European Centre of Excellence at
York. As part of per commitment to the Centre, she recently convened an
international workshop on “Adversarial legalism à l’Européen.” Dagmar holds a BA (Hons.) in
Political Science and Law from Carleton
University, an MA in Political Science (with a concentration in Women’s
Studies) and a Ph.D. (2009) from the University of Toronto, and has twice
been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for European
and International Aliens and Asylum Law at the University of
Constance, Germany. For the 2006/07 academic year, she was a Visiting
Study Fellow at the University of Oxford’s
Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). Dagmar’s
research focuses on comparative politics and public policy in the EU and
North America. She is particularly interested in questions concerning law and
the courts as well as citizenship and migration. Dagmar is currently working
on two major research projects: The first has generated a book manuscript,
tentatively entitled Empowered Courts
and the Fate of Refugees Compared, and a select number of articles. It
investigates the growing influence of the judiciary over refugee
determinations in Canada and in Germany from the 1950s to the present. The
second project, Courts and Refugees in the
UK: Juristocracy Reconsidered, for which research is still ongoing,
expands the focus of the first to the UK and the European Union level. Before
entering the PhD program at the University of Toronto, Dagmar participated in
the Ontario Legislature Internship
Programme (OLIP) at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Prior to moving to Canada in
1992, she worked for a German public health insurance body (AOK Düsseldorf). Details: See Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Soennecken Faculty Profile Research Interests
Publications
“Extending
Hospitality? History, Courts and the Executive,” in Studies
in Law, Politics and Society, ed.
Austin Sarat (special issue: Who
belongs? Immigration, Citizenship and the Constitution of Legality)
forthcoming. “Commentary:
Merkel’s Integration Rhetoric.” European Union Centres of Excellence Newsletter Vol. 5, Issue 1 (winter 2010): 5. “The
Growing Influence of the Courts over the Fate of Refugees.” Review of European and Russian Affairs. Vol. 4, Issue 2/ 2008. 10-43. “Becoming
a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and
Canada, Irene Bloemraad.” Law and Politics Book Review. Vol 17. No. 1 (Jan 15,
2007) 40-43. ”Complying
with Europe: EU Harmonization and Soft Law in the Member States, ed. Gerda Falkner et. al.” Law and Politics Book Review. Vol 15. No. 10 (October 12 2005)
896-899. Dagmar Soennecken and Ulf Häußler. Tagung
“Menschenhandel - Frauenhandel - organisierte Kriminalität.” Zeitschrift für
Ausländerrecht
2002, 39. (Dagmar Soennecken and Ulf Häußler. Conference Report “Human
Trafficking, Trafficking in Women – organized Criminality,” Journal of Aliens
Law 2002, 39. ) “National
Report: Canada.” In Kay Hailbronner (ed.), Study of the Asylum Single Procedure (“One-Stop-Shop”)
Against the Background of the Common European Asylum System and the Goal of a
Common Asylum Procedure. Study carried out on behalf of the
European Commission (Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs), 2002.
Selected Recent Conference Presentations and Talks
CCGES Online Roundtable: Obama and Europe
(video)
“Comparing Legal
Aid for Refugees: Trends and Perspectives from the Eurozone,” Annual Meeting
of the Law & Society Association (LSA), San Francisco,
June 2011. “The growing role
of the courts in governing immigration and asylum matters in Germany and in the
EU,” Joint Workshop, “Union-building in Europe and North America:
the Challenge of Unity and Diversity,” Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University &
Jean-Monnet Centre of Excellence at the
University of Osnabrück, Germany, June 2009. “Courts and the New
Governance of Immigration in the EU.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Political Science Association, Ottawa, May 2009. “Refugee Determinations and
Judicial Empowerment – “Not Just What, but When, “Annual Law and Society
Association Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2009.
“The impact of litigation by refugee advocacy
groups on immigration policy in comparative perspective,” workshop Immigration, Citizenship and Borders: Issues
facing the EU and Canada organized by the European Union Centre of Excellence, Dalhousie University,
April 3, 2009.
“Comparing the Expansion of Judicial Power: Refugees and the Courts in
Canada and in Germany.” Workshop, “Courts and Social
Policy in the European Union and Canada: Legal Mobilization and Policy
Outcomes,” November 30, 2007, European Union Centre of Excellence (Centre Institut
d’études européennes & Institute for European Studies), Université de
Montréal & McGill University.
Teaching
2010/11
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LAPS/PPAS 4070 6.0 Sociology of Law ·
LAPS/SOCS 4350 6.0 Law and Society Honours Seminar:
Law, Citizenship and Migration ·
LAPS/PPAL 6100 3.0 Canadian Constitutional and
Administrative Law 2011/12 ·
LAPS/PPAS 4070 6.0 Sociology of Law (sections A and B) ·
LAPS/PPAL 6100 3.0 Canadian Constitutional Law ·
GL/ILST 4100
6.0 Conference Project/Projet de Conférence Other Links
SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster Canada-Europe
Transatlantic Dialogue European Studies
Network Canada (EUCAnet) German
Studies.ca (online information platform for German and
European Studies in Canada) |
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