David Loveday

David is responsible for IRAP Europe’s strategic litigation before supra-national courts and tribunals. He joined IRAP Europe after practising first at the English Bar (2007-2013), then as an EU-advokat and lawyer in Sweden (since 2013).

As a litigator, David has had a broad practice encompassing constitutional law, human rights, public international law, conflict of laws, environmental law, labour law, and of course migration law. His notable cases as lead counsel in that field include F.G. v. Sweden before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, and extensive test litigation in Sweden for local interpreters, present in Afghanistan, seeking protection from risks to their life and safety resulting from their service with Swedish ISAF peacekeeping forces.

David holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from University College London, has taught law at Stockholm University and the University of Westminster, and has considerable experience of training other lawyers from across Europe in human rights, migration and refugee law on behalf of international bodies such as UNHCR, the International Commission of Jurists, and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). David is fluent in English and Swedish and has an excellent working knowledge of French.