Lynn Hillary works as an Assistant Professor at the department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are migration law, human rights and European public law. At the Amsterdam Law School, Lynn coordinates the LL.M. track Staats- en bestuursrecht and teaches courses on administrative law in the LL.B. (Administrative procedural law) and LL.M. track Staats- en bestuursrecht (Constitutional and adminstrative law in a compound legal order; 'Carrousel' module on migration law; Master theses).

On October 14, 2022, Lynn Hillary defended her PhD dissertation, entitled ‘Mutual trust as a general principle of EU law. External European asylum law through the lens of Member State cooperation’ at the Open Universiteit. Her doctoral research was supervised by Rolf Ortlep and Carla Zoethout (both OU and UvA). The doctoral research resulted in a monograph, published in the Human Rights Research Series. Before starting her doctoral research, Lynn worked at the Dutch Council for refugees (VluchtelingenWerk Nederland) and the migration chamber of a regional district court. In 2015, Lynn graduated from the LL.M. Public Law at the VUB in Brussels and she finished her studies at the VU Amsterdam where she graduated from the LL.M. International Migration and Refugee Law in 2016.

Lynn Hillary is currently a member of the editorial board of the Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper series and is a member of the migration working group of the NJCM (ICJ the Netherlands). 2021-2022, Lynn was the editorial manager for the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten (NTM/NJCM-Bulletin). From September 2020 until December 2021, she coordinated the Migration and Borders working group of the Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research and is now a member of the Network’s working group. Lynn Hillary is a member of working group on migration law of the NJCM and a member of the Dutch Association on Migration Research and the Research Affiliates network of the Refugee Law Initiative.