Valentin Feneberg

Dr Valentin Feneberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public Policy and Law at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany). Previously, he was a research assistant at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) and research coordinator and lecturer at the Integrative Research Institute Law & Society at Humboldt University Berlin (HU Berlin). In his PhD project at HU Berlin, he analysed the application of Country of Origin Information (COI) in asylum appeal adjudication. Valentin works in the field of socio-legal studies, focussing on asylum procedures, administrative courts, the judicial use of evidence, poverty as a reason for humanitarian protection, refugee status determination in cases of draft evasion/conscientious objection, and assisted return policies.