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Pushbacks through Escort: Readmission Agreements and Human Rights Implications for Maritime Migrants
Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou
Nov
18
2024
Posted: 10:19 GMT
Join us for Pushbacks through Escort: Readmission Agreements and Human Rights Implications for Maritime Migrants with Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou.
When: Friday 22 November 2024, 1-2pm
Where: Irish Centre for Human Rights Seminar Room, University of Galway
Speaker Biography:
Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou recently completed a two year National University of Ireland (NUI) Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Humanities at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway. She was a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School in the Spring semester 2024. She is a member of the ILA Committee on the “Protection of People at Sea” and the Management Committee of COST Action: #BlueRights, as delegate of Cyprus. She is a Research affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative. Dr Papachristodoulou is a licensed lawyer having been called to the Cyprus Bar in 2016. Her principal research topics include the extraterritorial application of human rights, border technologies, migration by sea as well as philosophical and ethical underpinnings of AI. Dr Papachristodoulou has published on the intersection between technologies of control used at sea borders and the human rights of migrants, including in the Leiden Journal of International Law, and has a forthcoming monograph with Routledge. Dr Papachristodoulou is a graduate (LLM in Maritime Law) of UCL, and holds a PhD from UCD School of Law.
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