Marie Beyrich is a legal scholar and currently a postdoctoral researcher in public law at the University of Regensburg. Her research focuses on administrative, constitutional, and European law. For her PhD, she analysed the proverbial contrast between the ‘law in the books’ and the ‘law in practice’ when it comes to reunifying refugees with their families. 

In her talk, she uses empirical cases to illustrate how the legal right to family reunification can be difficult or impossible to implement in practice. She will discuss these practical problems and bureaucratic hurdles faced by refugees, and explain how migration is governed by legal frameworks and administrative procedures.