Abdalrahman Nawwar LL.M.

Abdalrahman Nawwar is a doctoral researcher in Research Area 11 ("Migration agreements: A bilateral avenue to control mobility at global levels") of the RTG 2987 "Mobility Rights in the Global Context of Multiple Crises" at the University of Göttingen.

Before coming to Germany, he practised law in Alexandria for Several years, working across civil, commercial and administrative law. He holds an LL.B. from Alexandria University and an LL.M. from the University of Göttingen. His LL.M. thesis traced how EU sanctions evolved from an instrument of political discretion into a field governed by judicial standards and fundamental rights. He also advises refugees as a qualified legal counsellor at the Refugee Law Clinic Göttingen. A native Arabic speaker working in English and German, he reads the EU's external policy from both sides of the Mediterranean.

Research Project

Research Area 11: Migration agreements: A bilateral avenue to control mobility at global levels

The EU increasingly negotiates migration the way it negotiates trade: through comprehensive bilateral partnerships that link financial and economic cooperation with commitments on mobility, return and border management. His doctoral project asks whether the mobility commitments in these largely non-binding instruments create rights that individuals can rely on and enforce, and under which legal and institutional conditions they open pathways that are reliable, rights-compliant and subject to remedy.

Focusing on the EU's recent partnerships with Mediterranean countries, the project combines doctrinal analysis grounded in EU and international economic law with field research. It examines how such instruments are designed, which interests on both sides shape them, and how they are implemented and experienced in practice

His broader interest lies in how legal accountability is secured when the EU exercises economic power in its external relations, whether through sanctions, trade measures or migration partnerships.