As part of his professorship, Professor Noll intends to spend time examining the impact of ageing populations in Europe on the design of migration law. Europe is facing a major change as its populations age while birth rates are historically low.

"This is a project that tackles a crucial issue for the future of Europe through interdisciplinary legal science. I am delighted to be entrusted with the research chair, and will now be able to devote a more coherent effort to the relationship between democracy, demography and the design of law," says Gregor Noll.

The project "Democracy and Demographics in Migration Lawmaking" studies how Europe's ageing populations will affect the legislation governing immigration to the EU. The current regulatory model is not able to cope with the massive demographic change we are facing. Bringing together research from different disciplines, we understand that appropriate reform measures can be hard to implement, which in turn reinforces the negative impact of ageing on growth and gender equality.

The aim of the project is to integrate knowledge from a number of different disciplines into a legal science model. The outcome of the project will be used in the policy discussion on the consequences of ageing for the social contract. 

Gregor Noll is Professor of International Law at the Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on issues in international migration and asylum law, and on the question of how AI affects law in general.