Since 2004, Herwig Verschueren is a professor of International and European Labour and Social Security law at the University of Antwerp. He graduated in law at the University of Leuven (Belgium; 1980). Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven. He received his PhD degree in 1990 on the subject of “International labour migration”. From 1992 to 2004, he worked as a civil servant at the European Commission (Brussels) in the field of free movement of workers and the coordination of social security schemes.
His current teaching and research concentrate on European social law, and more specifically, on the legal position of migrating EU citizens with regard to labour and social security rights. He is the author and co-author of books, articles, and reports on these issues. He has published in journals such as the Common Market Law Review, the European Journal of Social Security, the European Labour Law Journal, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the European Journal of Migration and Law, and the International Journal for Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
He frequently gives lectures at international seminars and conferences. He also acts as a consultant for Belgian and European public authorities on legal issues related to the cross-border application of labour and social security law and social rights of migrant persons. He is an expert member of the European academic network “MoveS” (European social security coordination).
Areas of Expertise:
- Social Rights of Migrants
- Free Movement within the EU
- Third-country National Movement within the EU
Selected Publications:
- Verschueren, H. (2022) The right to social assistance for economically inactive migrating Union Citizens: the Court disregards the principle of proportionality and lets the Charter appease the consequences.
- Verschueren, H. (2022) The Application of the Conflict Rules of the European Social Security Coordination to Telework During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Verschueren, H. (2022) Employment and social rights of labour migrants post-Brexit.
Full Publication List: repository.uantwerpen.be/acadbib/irua/06980/N
Selected Projects:
- 2018 - 2021 - The meaning of the sufficient resources condition in European migration law.
- 2018 - Research on the possibility to strengthen the conditions for the entitlement to the income replacement benefit and the integration benefit for disabled persons.
- 2016 - 2019 - Sense in transnational transport in the EU (SENSE).