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Nayia Christodoulou

Nayia Christodoulou

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Special Teaching Staff in Human Rights Law

Qualifications

PhD Candidate in International Disability Law and Children’s Rights (University of Galway), (expected date of submission: 08/2026)

LLM in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy (University of Galway, 2022)

LLM in Human Rights Law (University of Nottingham, 2021)

LLB (University of Cyprus, 2019)

Minor in Philosophy (University of Cyprus, 2019)

Specialisation

International disability law, international children’s rights law, human rights law

Employment Track

Special Teaching Staff in Human Rights Law, UCLan Cyprus (2026 – present)

Officer at Human Rights Department, Office of the Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights, Nicosia, Cyprus (August 2023 – present)

Research Associate, University of Cyprus (June 2021 – April 2022)

Research Assistant, University of Nottingham, UK (Feb. 2021 – March 2021)

International Human Rights Reports Assistant, Human Rights Law Center – University of Nottingham, UK (Oct. 2020 – May 2021)

Research Associate, University of Cyprus – Department of Law (Oct. 2019 – Sept. 2020)

Trainee Lawyer, Nicoletta Charalambidou LLC, Nicosia, Cyprus (Sept. 2019 – Aug. 2020)

Research Associate, University of Cyprus – Department of Law (June – Sept. 2019)

Memberships (Academic/Professional)

Cyprus Bar Association (2020) (non-practicing member)

Research Interests

International disability law
International children’s rights law
International human rights law
Critical law studies

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

LLB Teaching: Mooting and Legal Debating (semester 2)

Selective Publications 

Christodoulou N, ‘Commentary: ECtHR, J.R. and Others v. Greece, App. No. 22696/16, 25 January 2018’ 6 Nomomachia 23 (in Greek).
Christodoulou N, ‘Commentary: ECtHR, Tchokhonelidze v. Georgia, App. No. 31536/07, 28 June 2018’ (2019) 6 Nomomachia 23 (in Greek).
Christodoulou N, ‘Commentary: CEDAW Committee, O.N. and D.P. v. Russian Federation, Communication No. 119/2017’ (2021) 28(1) International Human Rights Reports 169-170.
Christodoulou N, ‘Commentary: Human Rights Committee, Mario Staderini and Michele De Lucia v. Italy, Communication No. 2656/2015’ (2021) 28(1) International Human Rights Reports 7-8.
Christodoulou N, ‘The (Il)Legality Of The Prohibition Of Headscarves’, Human Rights Pulse, 27/04/2021, available at: https://www.humanrightspulse.com/mastercontentblog/the-illegality-of-the-prohibition-of-headscarves .
Kyriakides N, Fisentzou I, Christodoulou N, ‘Cyprus: Affordability and Accessibility of the Civil Justice System’ (2021) 4 Erasmus Law Review 235-245.
Christodoulou N, ‘Rékasi v. Hungary, IHRL4505 (UNCRPD2021)’ (2025) Oxford Reports on International Law.
Christodoulou N, ‘ST v. Russia – IHRL 4518 (CEDAW 2019)’ (2025) Oxford Reports on International Law.
Christodoulou N, ‘Restorative Justice in Cyprus’ in F. Duenkel, I. Aertsen and J. Llewellyn (eds.) Encyclopaedia on Restorative Justice in Penal Matters (forthcoming, 2026).
Christodoulou N, Book Review: Rebecca Adami, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child, (2025) 33(4) The International Journal of Children’s Rights 1045-1050.

Selective Conference and Seminar Presentations 

Workshop on Soft Law in International Law – SLS/BIICL (London, UK), March 2025, Speaker – “The CRC and CRPD Committees’ role in the progression of the child’s ‘right to be heard’ into a ‘right to participate in the decision-making process’”
International Law Weekend (New York, USA), November 2024, Speaker – Roundtable on Approaches to Capacity and Consent, Their Evolution and Implementation
Leeds Disability Studies Conference (Leeds, UK), September 2024, Speaker – “The disabled child’s right to legal capacity”
10^th Research Symposium on Children’s Rights, University of Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden), June 2024, Speaker – “An elevated right for the child to participate in the decision-making process under the CRPD?”
9th Research Symposium on Children’s Rights Law, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium), December 2023, Speaker – “CRPD as not ‘merely’ an equality treaty: Progressing the disabled child’s participation rights”
Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference, Derry-Londonderry (Northern Ireland), April 2023, Speaker – “The disabled child’s right to legal capacity”
8^th Symposium on Children’s Rights Law, University College Cork (Cork, Ireland), December 2022, Speaker – “The disabled child’s right to legal capacity: a legal challenge examined through the lens of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child”