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Dr Nasia Hadjigeorgiou

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Dr Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
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Deputy Head of School of Law, Associate Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights

Qualifications

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2021

PhD in Law (King’s College London, 2015)

LLM (University of Cambridge, 2010)

LLB (University College London, 2009)

 

Specialization

Public International Law, Human Rights and Transitional Justice

 

Employment Track

Associate Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights, UCLan Cyprus (September 2024-present)

Assistant Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights, UCLan Cyprus (July 2018-September 2024)

Lecturer, UCLan Cyprus (September 2013-July 2018)

 

Memberships (Academic/Professional)

Member of MIDEX (Migration, Diaspora and Exile) (UCLan Interdisciplinary Research Group)

 

Research Interests

Human rights, migration, peacebuilding and transitional justice, Public International Law. 

 

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

Teaching and Course Leadership

  • Modules Taught: Public Law (LLB), Criminal Law (LLB), Public International Law (LLB), International Human Rights Law (LLB and LLM), International Criminal Law (LLM), Inter/Intra-State Conflict Settlement and the Law (LLM), Peacebuilding and the Law (LLM).

Administrative Roles

  • Deputy Head of School of Law (September 2021 – today)
  • Member of ASQAC [Academic Standards and Quality Assurance Committee] of the School of Law (September 2021 – today)
  • Course Leader of the LLB (September 2015-September 2021)

 

Selective Publications 

Monograph:

  • Protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies: An under-explored relationship (Hart Publishing, 2020).

Edited Book:

  • (ed.) Identity, Belonging and Human Rights (Brill, 2019).

Articles:

  • ‘The Practice of Engagement without Recognition under International Law: A Tool for Combatting Human Trafficking’ (2024) 4(1) Global Studies Quarterly [open access publication, available here]
  • ‘Police Cooperation in Cases of Unrecognised Secessions: The Joint Communications Room in Cyprus’ (2023) 22(5) Ethnopolitics 527-549 (with Dina Kapardis)
  • ‘Decolonising Cyprus 60 Years after Independence: An Assessment of the Legality of the Sovereign Base Areas’ (2022) 33(4) European Journal of International Law 1125-1152
  • ‘The Invisible Impact of Frozen Conflicts: A Case Study of Foreign Domestic Workers in Cyprus’ (2022) 22(2) Ethnopolitics 177-198
  • ‘Truth and Closure in Cyprus: An Assessment of the Committee on Missing Persons’ (2022) 55(1) Israel Law Review 3-24
  • ‘Conflict Resolution in Post-violence Societies: Some Guidance for the Judiciary’ (2021) 25(4) The International Journal of Human Rights 695-717
  • ‘Remedying Displacement in Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from the Case of Cyprus’ (2016) 18 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 152-175.
  • ‘Αναγκαστική καισαρική επέμβαση. Βίοι παράλληλοι ή αλληλοεξαρτώμενοι;’ (2013) 57 Δικαιώματα του Ανθρώπου 81-106 [‘Forced Caesarean Section: Parallel or Symbiotic Lives?’] (co-authored with Maria Kozakou).
  • ‘Balancing Conflicting Interests During Pregnancy: Ultrasound v. Reality’ (2010) Cork Online Law Review 42.
  • ‘Rethinking the Mechanisms for Judgment Compliance in the Council of Europe and Eliminating the “Legal/Political Gap”’ (2010) Cork Online Law Review 136.

Book Chapters:

  • ‘Entrenching Hegemony in Cyprus: The Doctrine of Necessity and the Principle of Bi-communality’ (with Nikolas Kyriakou) in Yaniv Roznai and Richard Albert, Constitutionalism under Extreme Conditions: Law, Emergency, Exception (Springer 2020).
  • ‘Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Bosnia: A Critical Appraisal’ in Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Identity, Belonging and Human Rights (Brill, 2019), 149.
  • ‘Introduction’ in Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Identity, Belonging and Human Rights (Brill, 2019), vii.
  •  ‘A One-sided Coin: A Critical Analysis of the Legal Accounts of the Cypriot Conflicts’ in Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters, The Palgrave Handbook of State-sponsored History after 1945 (Palgrave, 2018), 583.
  • ‘Promoting Reconciliation and Protecting Human Rights: An Underexplored Relationship’ in Kalliopi Chainoglou, Barry Collins, Michael Phillips and John Strawson (eds.), Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), 106.

(Invited) Encyclopedia Entries:

  • ‘Ethnicity’, in The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, 2022
  • ‘Sovereign Base Areas’ in The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2021

Reports:

  • ‘Collecting Promising Practices on NHRI’s Charter Use’ (November 2023) (link) [lead author: Katerina Kalaitzaki, co-authored with Demetra Loizou] (prepared for the Ombudsman of the Republic of Cyprus in the framework of the Ombudsman’s participation in a Regional Project funded by the EEA and Norway Grants)
  • ‘The Buffer Zone in Cyprus: Clarifying the Concepts of Legal Status and Legal Responsibility’ Peace Research Institute Oslo (Cyprus Centre) (September 2023) (link)
  • ‘Mapping of National Human Rights Structures in Cyprus’ (June 2023) (link) [lead author: Katerina Kalaitzaki, co-authored with Demetra Loizou and Andreas Marcou] (prepared for the Ombudsman of the Republic of Cyprus in the framework of the Ombudsman’s participation in a Regional Project funded by the EEA and Norway Grants)
  • (ed.) The Implementation of the EU Anti-Racism Legal Framework in 6 European States: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, and the Netherlands (2022, e-book, deliverable in the PRESERVERE EU-funded project) (link)
  • ‘Human Trafficking in Cyprus: The Crime, Victims, Perpetrators, and their Connection to the Island’s Frozen Conflict’ Peace Research Institute Oslo (Cyprus Centre) (2022) (link)
  • ‘Case Study: Cyprus: Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Efforts’ [lead author: Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, co-authors: Demetra Loizou, Fezile Osum and Andrea Manoli] British Institute of International and Comparative Law (June 2022) (link)
  • ‘The Status of Foreign Domestic Workers in Cyprus’ [co-authored with Ombudsman of the Republic of Cyprus] (December 2020) (link)
  • ‘Helping those that help us: Challenges faced by foreign domestic workers in the Republic of Cyprus’ LSE Hellenic Observatory & Peace Research Institute Oslo (Cyprus Centre) (2020) (link)
  • ‘Helping those that help us: Some guidance for policy makers in the Republic of Cyprus’ LSE Hellenic Observatory & Peace Research Institute Oslo (Cyprus Centre) (2020) (link)
  • ‘The Status of the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus following Brexit’ (with Nikos Skoutaris) Peace Research Institute Oslo (Cyprus Centre), Occasional Paper Series 3 (2019) (link)

Book Reviews:

  • ‘Book Review of Theunix Roux, The Politics of Principle: The first South African Constitutional Court, 1995-2005’ (2014) 12(4) International Journal of Constitutional Law 1076-1080.
  • ‘Book Review of Colin Harvey and Alex Schwartz (eds.), Rights in Divided Societies’ (2012) 23(3) King’s Law Journal 344.

Case notes:

  • ‘Joannou v. Turkey: An Important Legal Development and a Missed Opportunity’ (2018) 2 European Human Rights Law Review 168-174
  • ‘Case note on Kazali and Others v. Cyprus’ (2013) 2(1) Cyprus Human Rights Law Review 102-111
  • ‘Case Note on Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina’ (2012) King’s Student Law Review 235
  • ‘Γενικός Εισαγγελέας της Δημοκρατίας ν. Ανδρέα Ευσταθίου – Παρατηρήσεις’ (2011) Λυσίας 3 [‘Case Note on Efstathiou v. Attorney General of Cyprus’ (2011) Lysias 3]

Blogs:

  • ‘The bicommunal Technical Committees in Cyprus: A rare example of “engagement without recognition”’ (Minorities Blog, European Centre for Minority Issues, May 2024)
  • ‘The profile of human trafficking victims in Cyprus’ (Project on Smuggling and Trafficking across the Green Line, 20 July 2022)
  • ‘Foreign Domestic Workers in Cyprus: The Unseen Impact of the Frozen Conflict’ (LSE Hellenic Observatory Blog, 26 February 2021)
  • ‘The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus: A Humanitarian or Reconciliation-Promoting Institution?’ (Opinio Juris, 23 December 2020)
  • ‘The Missing Truth in Cyprus’ (Justiceinfo.Net in collaboration with Oxford Transitional Justice Research, 13 October 2020). The article was also translated in French by Justiceinfo.Net
  • ‘Some thoughts on Baralija v. Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Expected Legal Development or a Hail Mary?’ (Opinio Juris, 6 May 2020)
  • ‘Author Interview: Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies’ in IACL-AICD Blog (IACL-AIDC Blog, 2 April 2020)
  • ‘Güzelyurtlu and Others v. Cyprus and Turkey: An Important Legal Development or a Step Too Far?’ in Crossroads Europe (Crossroads Europe, 27 November 2019)

 

Invited talks:

  • ‘The Practice of Engagement without Recognition under International Law: A Tool for Addressing Social Issues in Frozen Conflict Societies’ (University of Gothenburg, 22 May 2024)
  • ‘International students, forced migrants, and legal liminality in the de facto state of Northern Cyprus’ (University of Gothenburg, 23 May 2024)
  • ‘Doing research with relatives of missing persons’ (ERC-funded, DISACT Ethics and Security Workshop, 14 December 2023, University of Cyprus)
  • ‘Decolonisation and Self-Determination: Learning from Chagos’ (Workshop on ‘Reimagining Self-Determination: Decolonial, Intersectional and Relational Perspectives’, 24-25 May 2023, co-organised by the University of Cyprus and the University of Oxford)
  • Participated as an invited speaker to workshop on ‘Pushing back and nudging forward: Migration governance in Greece, Malta, and Cyprus in the context of the Common European Asylum System’ (Max Planck-Institut, Berlin, 28-29 April 2023)
  • Invited by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation to give a presentation on my experiences as a reviewer of European funded projects (October 2022)
  • Invited as an expert to give evidence to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, working on their report on Cyprus (April 2022)
  • ‘Book Launch: Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-violence Societies’ (Book Launch at the Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile, February 2022)
  • ‘The Invisible Impact of Frozen Conflicts: A Case Study of Foreign Domestic Workers in Cyprus’ (Research Seminar at the London School of Economics Hellenic Observatory, February 2021), video available here and podcast available here

 

Selective Conference and Seminar Presentations 

  • The bicommunal Technical Committees: Helping to resolve, or making the frozen conflict more comfortable?’ (Eighth Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, June 2024)
  • ‘Living up to obligations through the ICRC? A critique of state’s attempts to shift obligations when addressing missing persons’ (‘Online Symposium: Futureproofing human rights, developing thicker forms of accountability’, organised by the Universities of Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels and Hasselt, June 2024)
  • ‘Nudging migrants around: Forcing Secondary Movement across Jurisdictions in the Context of a Frozen Conflict’ (Workshop on ‘“Nudging forward” as a new strategy for governing forced migration at EU’s periphery’, funded by the Max Planck Institute, April 2024)
  • ‘Assessing the effectiveness of the Committee on Missing Persons in Bridging Divided Communities in Cyprus’ (MESEA, The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas, 12th Biennial Conference, May 2022)
  • ‘The Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus: A Colonial Remnant or a Site for International Cooperation?’ (10th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, March 2021)
  • ‘Truth and Closure in Frozen Conflict: An Assessment of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus’ (15th Annual Minerva/ICRC Conference on International Humanitarian Law Indirect Victims of Conflict: IHL Protections of the Rights and Interests of Relatives, International Webinar, November 2020)
  • ‘The Sovereign Base Areas and the Principle of Self-determination: A critical Assessment’ (‘60 Years on from 1960 – A Symposium to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus’, UCLan Cyprus, November 2020)
  • ‘When we neglect the basics: Educating those post-violence societies about human rights institutions’ (Conference on ‘Human Rights Education in Context’, UCLan Cyprus, September 2019)
  • ‘Cyprus, The past, present and future legal status of the Sovereign Base Areas’ (Conference on ‘BREXIT and its Implications for Cyprus’, PRIO Cyprus, November 2018)
  • ‘Conflict resolution in transitional societies: Some guidance for the judiciary’ (ICON·S 2017 Conference on ‘Courts, Powers, Public Law’, Copenhagen, July 2017)
  • ‘Conflict resolution in transitional societies: Some guidance for the judiciary’ (International Political Science Association Conference on ‘Democratization and Constitutional Design in Divided Societies’, University of Cyprus, June 2017)
  • ‘Entrenching hegemony in Cyprus: The doctrine of necessity and the principle of bi-communality’ (with Nikolas Kyriakou) (University of Haifa, Minerva Center for Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, July 2016)
  • ‘Women’s rights in Cyprus’ (University of Denver, International Panel at Ved Nanda Centre for International and Comparative Law, April 2016)
  • ‘A one sided coin: A legal account of the Cypriot conflict’ (University of Ghent, Conference on State-sponsored History after 1945, November 2015)
  • ‘Building peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina by protecting the right to property: The gap between theory and practice’ (Tel-Aviv University, 3rd Annual TAU Workshop for Junior Scholars: Theory Coming to Life, Tel-Aviv, October 2015)
  • ‘Assessing the peacebuilding contribution of human rights in ethnically divided, post-conflict societies’ (University of Oxford, 8th Conference on Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging, September 2014).
  • ‘Questioning the use of human rights in promoting reconciliation in ethnically divided societies’ (University of East London, Centre for Human Rights in Conflict, Workshop on Law, Faith and Historical Memory, June 2013).
  • ‘Going back to the basics: Re-examining the usefulness of judicially protecting the right to property in Cyprus’ (London School of Economics, The 6th Biennial Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus, June 2013).
  • ‘Comparing the right to property in two post-conflict societies: Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa’ (University of Cambridge, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, May 2013).
  • ‘Democracy and the right to vote in ethnically divided societies: Theory and practice in Cyprus’ (University of Nottingham, Human Rights and Democracy: Two Sides of the Same Coin, March 2013).
  • ‘The right to vote and politico-identity conflicts in ethnically divided societies: A comparative analysis of three case studies’ (Centre for Comparative Conflict Studies, Junior Scholars Training Seminar, January 2013).
  • ‘The relationship between peace and human rights’ (King’s College London, International Graduate Legal Research Conference, April 2012).

Selective Research Funding/ Grant Capture

Funded Projects (as Principal Researcher)

  • Principal Researcher for the project – ‘InPeace – Inclusive Peacebuilding: The Technical Committees in Cyprus’ (Funded by EU: EuropeAid/173620/DH/ACT/CY-1, 2023-2026, Total project budget: €103,179)
  • Principal Researcher for UCLan Cyprus – ‘PRESERVERE – Preventing Racism and Discrimination – Enabling the Effective Implementation of the EU Anti-Racist Legal Framework’ (Funded by EU: CERV-2021-EQUAL, 2022-2024, Total project budget: €454,058; UCLan Cyprus budget: €80,795)
  • Member of the Ethics Board – ‘DISACT – Disappearing Act: Reconstructing the Crime of Disappearances in Times of Political Violence’ (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-2028)
  • Expert Member – ‘CRoLEV – Centre for the Rule of Law and European Values’ (Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, 2022-2025)
  • Principal Researcher for the project – ‘Profiling Human Trafficking Victims in Cyprus’ (Funded by the UCLan Interdisciplinary Research Group on Migration, Diaspora and Exile, January – July 2022, £5,500)
  • Principal Researcher for the project – ‘Exploring the Socio-legal Challenges Faced by Foreign Domestic Workers in Cyprus’ (Funded by the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, Hellenic Observatory, January – December 2020, £8,000)
    • Follow-up funding (€500) for this research and its dissemination was received by the Indian High Commission in Cyprus (January-March 2021)
  • Principal Researcher for the project – ‘Assessing the effectiveness of the Committee on Missing Persons in building peace in Cyprus’ (Funded by the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Foundation, January – December 2020, $5,000)

 

Supervision of Projects/PhDs

  • I supervise at UCLan Cyprus LLB and LLM dissertations and projects
  • PhD at School of Justice, UCLan UK
    • Katerina Kalaitzaki – Second PhD supervisor, ‘The protection of Fundamental Rights of EU citizens and EU citizenship as a means of reinforcement’ – Completed
    • Eleni Neocleous – Second PhD supervisor, ‘The rights of migrants in distress at sea in International Human Rights Law and the European Union’s responsibility to international protection – A new insight to irregular migration’ – Completed
    • Fezile Osum – Director of Studies for PhD, Working title: ‘Conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence’ – Ongoing

Consultancy and CPD Training

  • Country expert for Cyprus in the international project ‘V-Dem: Global standards, Local Knowledge’ (2014 – today). V-Dem uses country experts to assess democratic practices worldwide from 1900 to today.
  • Researcher to the Commissioner for Administration and Protection of Human Rights Cyprus for the Project ‘Supporting National Human Rights Institutions in monitoring fundamental rights and the fundamental rights aspects of the rule of law’ coordinated by EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (EEA and Norway Grants, June 2022 – March 2024).
  • 10-hour course on ‘The Rule of Law and European Values in the Modern Ages: Frozen Conflicts in Europe and Transitional Justice’ (July 2022, delivered under and funded by the Jean Monnet Centre for the Rule of Law and European Values – CRoLEV), available here)
  • Consultant expert for the US-government funded project, run by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law ‘Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Efforts’ (May-August 2021). Empirical and desktop research on anti-trafficking efforts on the island of Cyprus.
  • Consultant expert for the EU-funded project ‘Limassol: One City, the Whole World’ (March 2021). Empirical and desktop research on the rumors relating to migration in Cyprus.
  • Country expert for Cyprus in the EU-funded project ‘EU-Citizen – Academic Network on European Citizenship Rights’ (January 2021). Co-author of country report on Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPP).
  • Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus (November 2015 – March 2020). Provision of consultancy services to the Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus on Public International Law matters.

 

Scholarships/Awards

  • Social Action Award 2024 (awarded by the British Council to alumni of UK Universities), for the social impact of my research
  • Constantinos Emilianides Annual Book Award in Law for 2020 (awarded by The Cyprus Review), for my monograph entitled Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-violence Societies: An Underexplored Relationship (Bloomsbury, 2020)
  • ‘Honorable Mention’ in the 2020 Human Rights Essay Award Competition of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, for my 10,000-word essay entitled ‘Conflict Resolution in Post-violence Societies: Some Guidance for the Judiciary.
  • Graduate School Studentship, King’s College London, 2011-14, tuition fees and maintenance for the completion of the PhD.
  • Leventis Scholarshipfor academic excellence and research potential, 2012-2014.
  • Cyprus State Scholarshipfor academic excellence, 2009-2010.

Other Scholarly and Outreach Activities

  • Member of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee (2025-2028)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Human Rights

Acted as reviewer for

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships programme (H2020-MSCA-IF) (2020-)
  • International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Foundation (2022-)
  • International Political Science Review (September 2024)
  • International Journal of Transitional Justice (December 2022, July 2020, September 2019, July 2016)
  • Reviewer of book manuscript submitted to the Politics list of Bloomsbury Academic (November 2022)
  • Two publications funded by the British High Commission in Cyprus on human trafficking (available here and here, February 2022)
  • London School of Economics Hellenic Observatory (September 2021)
  • ICLAIM, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods (for the publication of a ‘Handbook on Community Mediation – A Guide for Professionals’, May 2018)
  • International Journal of Human Rights (June 2017)
  • Research Foundation – Flanders (for postdoctoral fellowship application, May 2017)
  • Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitical Review (March 2017)

 

Other outreach activities:

In relation to the Cyprus issue:

In relation to human trafficking:

In relation to migration:

 

In relation to foreign domestic workers:

In relation to the Sovereign Base Areas:

Anti-racism

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