Associate Lecturer in International and Comparative Public Law

Qualifications

PhD in Law (University of Central Lancashire, UK, 2022)

LLM in Public International Law (University College London, 2011)

LLB Bachelor of Laws (University of Leicester, 2010)

Erasmus Exchange Programme (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, 2009)

Qualified Advocate (Non-practicing, Cyprus Bar Association)

Specialisation

• Public International Law
• Comparative Public Law

Employment Track

• PREPARED Project Manager, (2022-2025)

‘Pro-active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework’, Funded by Horizon Widera 2021

For more information: https://prepared-project.eu

• Associate Lecturer in International and Comparative Public Law, UCLan Cyprus (2018-Present)
• Migration Officer, Cyprus Red Cross Society, Nicosia, Cyprus (2015-2017)
• Outreach & Development Associate, Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR), Nicosia, Cyprus (2015-2016)
• Child Protection Officer, ‘Hope for Children’ CRC Policy Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus (2014-2015)
• Trainee – Directorate, Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU (FRA), Vienna, Austria (2013)
• Legal Assistant – Justice & Home Affairs Unit, Permanent Representation of Cyprus to the EU, Brussels, Belgium (2012-2013)
• Trainee Advocate, Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus (2011-2012)

Memberships

• International Law Association (ILA)
  • Cypriot Branch – Executive Committee Member (2016-2018)
  • International ILA Committee on ‘Human Rights in Time of Emergency’ (2017-2024)

• European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  • Mentor in mentorship scheme (2023-present)

• International Society of Public Law (ICON-S)

Research Interests

• General Public International Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Human Rights Law
• Comparative Public Law
• Legal History and Legal Theory
• Refugee Law, Migration and Asylum
• Transitional Justice & Memory Studies
• Interdisciplinary Legal Studies

Roles and Responsibilities

Teaching (2024-2025)

• Comparative Law (Module Leader)
• Public Law (England and Wales; Judicial Review)
• Thinking and Arguing the Law

Previous Teaching (2018-2024)

• Comparative Law (Module Leader)
• Cyprus Public Law and System (Module Leader)
• Foundations of English and Cypriot Law (Module Leader)
• Foundations of International and EU Law
• Introduction to Current Legal Issues in Cyprus
• Jurisprudence (Module Leader)
• Legal Research and Reasoning
• Public International Law (Module Leader)
• Public Law (England and Wales; Judicial Review)
• Thinking and Arguing the Law

Administrative Roles

• Special Teaching Staff Representative, UCLan Cyprus Senate (2022-Present)
• Member, Research & Innovation Committee (RIC) (2019/20, 2020/21)
• Member, Academic Standards & Quality Assurance Committee (ASQAC) (2018/19)

Selective Publications 

MONOGRAPH  

1. Kornioti, The Law and Politics of the ‘Cyprus Troubles’ (1960-1968) (Palgrave Macmillan 2025, Forthcoming)

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Kornioti, ‘Law’s Memory’ in Piotr Uhma (ed), Memory and Post-Memory Laws: Selected Issues (Forthcoming)
2. Kornioti, ‘Multiculturalism in the mixed legal system of the Republic of Cyprus’ in Garry F. Bell (ed), National Reports – Multicultural Populations and Mixed Legal Systems (Forthcoming)

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

10. Antoniou, N. Kornioti, K. Antoniou, ‘Navigating the Post-Pandemic Normal: Learning from the Experiences of Cyprus-Based Female Researchers during the COVID-19 Pandemic’ (2024) 13(6) Social Sciences 280; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13060280

2020. Kornioti, Book Review: Giuseppe Giordan, Siniša Zrinščak (eds), Global Eastern Orthodoxy: Politics, Religion, and Human Rights, Cham: Springer, 2020. Pp. 264 (2023) 38(2) Journal of Law and Religion 327; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2023.14

2019. Kornioti, Book Review: Diana Markides, The Cyprus Tribute and Geopolitics in the Levant, 1875-1960, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. 259 (2023) 34(2) The Cyprus Review 148; https://cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/879

10. Kornioti, K. Antoniou, ‘Social Mediation as a grassroots method fostering sustainable community collaboration’ (2022) International Modern Perspectives on Academia and Community Today (IMPACT) DOI: https://doi.org/10.36949/impact.v1i2.50

1. Kornioti, ‘Reflexivity and the Uncovering of Silence in International Law’, EUI Department of Law Research Paper 2022/08 (2022)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105586

1. Kornioti, ‘The Island of Cyprus, Sovereignty and International Law in the Early Decades of British Rule (1878-1923)’ (2020) 32(2) The Cyprus Review 105-128 http://cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/754

REPORTS, CONTRIBUTIONS & POLICY PAPERS

1. Kornioti, ‘Cyprus’ in R. Albert et al (eds), 2023 Global Review of Constitutional Law (ICONnect and Clough Center 2024)
2. Petersen, I. Cismas, C. Binder, E. Sommario (eds), International Law Association Committee on Human Rights in Times of Emergency – Final Report (2024) International Law Association
3. Kornioti and V. Gettos, ‘Implementation of the EU anti-racism legal framework in Cyprus’ (PRESERVERE Project, 2022); https://www.academia.edu/90923109/Implementation_of_the_EU_anti_racism_legal_framework_in_Cyprus
4. Kornioti, Cyprus Country Expert, Study on Cyber Violence against Women, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE); https://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/combating_cyber_violence_against_women_and_girls.pdf
5. Kornioti, Cyprus Rapporteur, ‘Legal History and Legal Ethnology – Multicultural populations and mixed legal systems’ (International Academy of Comparative Law – General Congress 2022)
6. Iakovou, N. Kornioti, ‘Missing Persons in Cyprus: Observations from the past and recommendations for the future’, PRIO Cyprus Centre Report, 7 (PRIO Cyprus Centre, 2019) https://cyprus.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=4294

ONLINE BLOGS

1. Kornioti, ‘Taking Cinderella to the Ball: A Postscript to the Student Symposium on Comparative Law’ (UCLan Cyprus Law Blog, 9 September 2024)

https://lawblog.uclancyprus.ac.cy/taking-cinderella-to-the-ball-a-postscript-to-the-student-symposium-on-comparative-law/

1. Kornioti, ‘Law’s Vulgar Silence: On the Silence of International Lawyers in Protracted Conflicts’ (Völkerrechtsblog, 28 June 2021) https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/laws-vulgar-silence/
2. Kornioti, ‘At the edges of the Rule of Law: International obligations in times of emergency’ (Rule of Law Monitoring Mechanism, 19 May 2020) https://ruleoflawmonitoringmechanism.eu/posts/at-the-edges-of-the-rule-of-law-international-obligations-in-times-of-emergency

Selective Conferences and Workshops 

1. Kornioti, Panel: 60 Years of UN Presence in Cyprus, “Anniversaries of Cyprus: Revisiting the Past, Reimagining the Future”, PRIO Cyprus, Nicosia, 6 December 2024 (Invited speaker)
2. Kornioti, ‘Democracy and COVID-19’, “The impact of COVID-19 crisis on diverse democratic perspectives through gender perspective” (HEARD Project), Faculty of Organisation Studies, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, 30 January 2024 (Online) (Guest Lecturer)
3. Kornioti, ‘Co-existence in the Courtroom before the Doctrine of Necessity: A Legal Historical Study of Life and Politics in Cyprus through the Case Reports of the High Court of Justice and the Supreme Constitutional Court’, Conference on the Coexistence of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots (1960-1963)’, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1 December 2023
4. Karayianni, N. Kornioti, ‘Home Away from Home: The British Cypriot Diaspora and the Breakage of Co-existence’, Conference on the Coexistence of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots (1960-1963)’, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1 December 2023
5. Kornioti, ‘The Ontology of ‘Island-ness’ in Public International Law’, 9th Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICONS), Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 3 July 2023
6. Kornioti, ‘Insular territories and insular minds: Invisible dots on the global map’, The Aesthetics of International Law Conference, Central European University, Vienna, Austria,12-13 May 2023
7. Kornioti, K. Antoniou, ‘’Social Mediation as conflict resolution tool in Deeply Divided Societies’, Conference on Deeply Divided Societies: Social Psychological Processes and Theorising, European Association of Social Psychology, Nicosia, Cyprus, 4 November 2022
8. Kornioti, ‘Law’s Memory: Method, Theory and Practice’, Symposium: Memory and Post-Memory Laws in Legal Education, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland, 19 September 2022
9. Kornioti, Workshop Delivery ‘Witnessing violence and the liminalities of the international legal self’, Critical Legal Conference 2022, Arctic University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, 31 August 2022
10. Κornioti, ‘Law or Diplomacy? Priorities before the United Nations Security Council in the mid-1960s’, ESIL Interest Group on the History of International Law, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 30 March 2022 (Online participation)

Scholarships/ Fellowships / Grants

1. 3-5 July 2023, 9^th Annual ICON-S Conference: Islands and Oceans: Public Law in a Plural World, ICON-S, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2. 11-13 September 2022, Herrenhausen Conference: Governing Humanitarianism – Past, Present and Future, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, University of Cologne, Leibniz Institute of European History, Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover, Germany

3. 18-22 July 2022, Global Scholars Academy 2022, Institute for Global Law and Policy – Harvard Law School, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

4. July 2019, Global Humanitarianism Research Academy 2019, Leibniz Institute of European History, University of Exeter and the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mainz, Germany & Geneva, Switzerland

5. May 2018, Berlin Seminar: Truth, Justice and Remembrance 2018, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

Selection of other Scholarly and Outreach Activities

1. PREPARED Project, Researcher (ICLAIM, 2022-2025)
2. CRoLEV, Workshop Facilitator (ICLAIM, 2022-2025)