Roxane de Massol de Rebetz
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. R.M.F. de Massol de Rebetz LLM
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1200
- r.m.f.de.massol.de.rebetz@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3417-0345
Roxane de Massol de Rebetz is an Assistant Professor of Law & Society at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University.
She holds an LLM in Public Law (magna cum laude) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and an MSc in Crime and Criminal Justice (cum laude) from Leiden University. She obtained her PhD in Law & Society from Leiden University, where her research focused on transit migration, migrant smuggling, and human trafficking in an Intra-Schengen mobility context. One of her thesis articles earned her the Meijers Prize for best publication in 2021.
Roxane’s research focuses on security-related policies, laws, and practices from a socio-legal lens. She investigates the practices of security actors—ranging from lawmakers to prosecutors and police officers—across various fields such as counterterrorism, extremism, organized crime, and migration management.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Metajuridica
- Van Vollenhoven Instituut
- Massol de Rebetz R.M.F. de (2024), A review of the new Facilitation EU Directive Proposal in light of the unique Belgian approach to deal with migrant smuggling: a good opportunity to re-conceptualise smuggled individuals from a protective lens?, Boom Strafblad 5(2): 110-115.
- Massol de Rebetz R.M.F.A. de (25 May 2023), Beyond the dichotomy between migrant smuggling and human trafficking: a Belgian case study on the governance of migrants in transit (Dissertatie. Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University) Meijers-reeks no. MI-399. Supervisor(s): Woude M.A.H. van der, Meeteren M.J. van & Leun J.P. van der.
- Massol de Rebetz R.M.F. de (2023), Jurisdictional games and decision making: the Belgian approach in dealing with migrant smuggling, Law & Policy 45(2): 137-158.
- De Massol de Rebetz R. & Woude M.A.H. van der (2022), A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling, Crime, Law and Social Change 78(4): 357-378.
- Massol De Rebetz R.M.F. de & Ölçer F.P. (2022), Aggravated migrant smuggling in a transit migration context: criminal victimization under ECtHR positive obligations case law, Annales de la Faculté de Droit d'Istanbul 71: 413-480.
- de Massol de Rebetz R. (2021), How useful is the concept of transit migration in an intra-Schengen mobility context? Diving into the migrant smuggling and human trafficking nexus in search for answers, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 27(1): 41-63.
- Massol de Rebetz R.M. de & Woude M.A.H. van der (2020), Marianne’s liberty in jeopardy? A French analysis on recent counterterrorism legal developments, Critical Studies on Terrorism 13(1): 1-23.
- Massol de Rebetz R.M.F. de (27 November 2018), Transmigrant: one word to hide them all. European Border Communities. [blog entry].
- Massol de Rebetz R.M.F. de (14 December 2017), The ‘crime of solidarity’. On the symbolism and the political message behind Court rulings. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Massol de Rebetz R.M.F. de (14 December 2017), The ‘crime of solidarity’. On the symbolism and the political message behind Court rulings. European Border Communities. [blog entry].