Abdalrahman Nawwar Dipl.-Jur

Abdalrahman Nawwar is a doctoral researcher in Research Area 11 (Bilateral Instruments of Mobility Governance) of the RTG 2987 "Mobility Rights in the Global Context of Multiple Crises" at the University of Göttingen. Before moving to Germany he practised as a lawyer 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, where his thesis traced how EU sanctions evolved from an instrument of political discretion into a field governed by judicial standards and fundamental rights. He advises refugees as a qualified legal counsellor at the Refugee Law Clinic Göttingen. A native Arabic speaker working in English and German, he reads Europe's external policy from both sides of the Mediterranean.

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

Europe increasingly negotiates migration the way it negotiates trade: through comprehensive bilateral partnerships that combine financial and economic cooperation with commitments on mobility, returns and border management. His doctoral project asks what these agreements deliver for the people they concern, and under which legal and institutional conditions they create pathways that are reliable, rights compliant and open to remedy. Taking the EU-Egypt Partnership of 2024 as its point of entry, and reading it through the lens of EU and international economic law, it examines how such instruments are designed, which interests on both sides shape them, and how they are implemented and experienced in practice. The aim is to give policymakers, parliaments and partner governments a clearer picture of what works, what does not, and why. His broader interest lies in how legal accountability is secured when the Union exercises economic power in its external relations, whether through sanctions, trade defence or migration partnerships.