Vincent Chetail

Vincent Chetail is a legal scholar and professor of public international law specializing in international migration law and refugee law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. He is also a senior research associate at the University of London's Refugee Law Initiative.

Chetail has held numerous visiting professorships, including at Harvard Law School, the University of Paris XI, Sciences Po, the Hague Academy of International Law and the European University Institute. He has been called by his peers "a leading expert on migration" and one of the "luminaries" of the discipline of international migration law. He started his academic career as an associate professor of public international law at the Geneva campus of Webster University.

Early life and education Chetail holds a PhD from the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, a master's from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a bachelor's in law from Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. He founded the Global Migration Centre, a research center at the Geneva Graduate Institute. In 2019, Chetail became president of the board of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, succeeding Nicolas Michel.

In 2020, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration appointed Chetail as an Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Advisers.

He is frequently cited in the media for his views on issues of forced migration in Europe and refugee law.

Select publications International Migration Law, (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2019) 449p Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Lexicon, (Oxford, Oxford University Press) (2019) 344p Unity and Diversity of International Law (Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) co-edited with D. Alland, O. de Frouville & Jorge E. Viñuales (2014) 1007p The Roots of International Law (Boston/Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) co-edited with Pierre-Marie Dupuy (2013) 764p Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies under Public International Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) co-authored with L. Cameron (2013) 720p