Amy Weatherburn

Amy is a Research Fellow (Chargé de Recherche) FRS-FNRS at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her research focuses on the normalization of tolerated exploitation in the labour market and the need to develop a prevention policy of exploitation that goes beyond criminal law. Her main research areas are human trafficking, migration and fundamental rights. She has published her work in collective works and international journals. Between 2015 and 2020, she was a doctoral student, then postdoctoral researcher at the VUB where she worked on several European funded research projects, and where she led the Belgian national research for the multidisciplinary research network of the Agence de the European Union of Fundamental Rights (FRANET). From September 2019 – August 2020, Amy was seconded to INTERVICT of Tilburg University where she will be co-coordinator of the Master Programme Victimology and Criminal Justice (MSc). Previously, she was a researcher at the Human Rights Law Center at the University of Nottingham (2012-2014)

Research Expertise: Human trafficking, labour exploitation, slavery, migration, criminal law, human rights law

Research Methodology: Qualitative, legal doctrinal