Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032082110)

Rosemary Byrne is a Professor of Legal Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where she earned her JD degree. Her academic and policy career has been in the area of international human rights. She served as a Human Rights Commissioner for the Irish Human Rights Commission, which was established in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. She was a member of FRA's Scientific Committee from 2013 to 2018, and the Committee's chair from 2013 to 2015. Previously, she was on the law faculty of Trinity College Dublin, and has been a Visiting Professor of International Law at the Paris School of International Affairs, Institut d'ﾉtudes Politiques (Sciences Po), a member of the visiting faculty at the China-EU School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, a Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Han Entzinger is Professor Emeritus of Migration and Integration Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was vice-chair (2013-2015) and chair (2015-2018) of FRA's Scientific Committee. Before joining Erasmus University in 2001, he held a chair in General Social Sciences at Utrecht University. He has worked extensively in different areas of public policy, including for the Scientific Council for Government Policy, a think tank affiliated with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and for the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva. He studied sociology with economics at the universities of Leiden, Rotterdam and Strasbourg, and obtained his doctorate at Leiden University. His main research interests include migration, migrant integration, multiculturalism, policy making and the welfare state, on which he has published extensively. He has frequently acted as a consultant to the European Union, the Council of Europe, national and local governments on these issues. Since 2016 he has also been a fellow of the Centre for Migration Law at Radboud University in Nijmegen.