Constantin Hruschka

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Dr. Constantin Hruschka (@TinoHruschka) is a Professor of Social Law at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg/Breisgau (Germany) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich. His main research projects focus on responsibility-sharing mechanisms and reforms in the asylum context. He was deeply involved in the Swiss asylum reforms, including as part of the pilot phase evaluation team at the Swiss Center of Expertise in Human Rights at the University of Bern, and then subsequently as the Head of the Protection Department at the Swiss Refugee Council (2014–17), which served as the Single Point of Contact between non-government organizations (NGOs) providing legal representation and the Swiss asylum authority during the pilot project at the Zurich test centre. He worked in the Asylum Department of the Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland between May 2021 and August 2024 and was a member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Migration between 2015–18, which advises the Swiss Government and migration authorities on migration issues. He is a fully qualified lawyer and worked as a lawyer at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nuremberg and Geneva (2004–14). He is also on LinkedIn.