Brief Bio

Sarah Progin-Theuerkauf is a professor for EU Law and Migration Law at the University of Fribourg. Since 2011, she is also co-director of the Centre for Migration Law in Neuchâtel. Sarah studied law at the Universities of Bonn/Germany and Fribourg/Switzerland. After her Phd in EU Law at the University of Fribourg (2006), a legal clerkship took her to Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Bonn and Bangkok. From 2008 to 2009, she worked as an attorney for a major swiss law firm based in Zurich.

Sarah’s teaching and research activities focus on EU Migration and Asylum Law, the Free Movement of Persons, International Refugee Protection and Human Rights.

Courses taught at CTLS

• International and European Refugee Protection (Fall 2019)
• Migration and Human Rights (Fall 2019)