Walter Kälin is professor emeritus of international and constitutional law, Faculty of Law, University of Bern/Switzerland. He is the present Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the former Envoy of the Chairmanship of the Nansen Initiative on disaster-induced cross-border displacement. He is presently in Berlin as a Richard von Weizäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Previously, he served as Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. He was also a member of the Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise of the International Law Association. Recent books include Internal Displacement and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Session: 

• The policy dimensions of cross-boundary human mobility

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