Rate My Professor Dallal Stevens

Dallal Stevens is Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, serving as Deputy Head of School (Academic Staff Development) since September 2024 and Director of Academic Staff Development. She previously held roles including Director of Undergraduate Studies (2020-2023), Director of Research (2015-2017), Book Reviews Editor for the International Journal of Refugee Law (2019-2024), and Associate Editor for the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. Earlier positions include Trustee of the Immigration Advisory Service (2002-2009) and the Electronic Immigration Network (2002-2006), as well as External Moderator for the Immigration Accreditation Scheme at Central Law Training (2004-2007). Stevens is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court (non-practising). Her academic career at Warwick began as Lecturer (1990-2005), followed by Senior Lecturer (2005-2006), Associate Professor (2006-2015), and Reader (2015-2019). Prior to academia, she worked at Norton Rose Law Firm (1988-1990). She holds an LL.B (First Class Honours, ranked first) from the University of Hull and a PhD from the University of Warwick. In 2015, she received the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence.

Stevens' research specializations encompass refugee law and policy, asylum law and policy, forced migration, human rights, refugees, asylum seekers, and the Middle East. She teaches International Refugee Law (LA233-15) and Critical Perspectives on Forced Migration (LA386-15). Her supervision of PhD students covers topics such as stateless persons in Jordan, the impact of armed conflict on doctoral studies in Syria, sovereignty and regional approaches to Syria, and socio-legal studies of asylum processes in Greece and Germany. Key publications include the book UK Asylum Law and Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004); Reclaiming Migration: Voices from Europe's Migrant Crisis (co-authored with V. Squire, N. Vaughan-Williams, and N. Perkowski, Manchester University Press, 2021); Legal status, labelling and protection: the case of Iraqi refugees in Jordan (International Journal of Refugee Law, 2013); and Rights, Needs or Assistance? The Role of the UNHCR in Refugee Protection in the Middle East (International Journal of Human Rights, 2016). Her scholarship has garnered significant citations, influencing discussions on refugee protection and migration policy.