Special Teaching Staff 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-practising, Cyprus Bar Association)

Specialisation

• Public International Law
• Comparative Public Law

Employment Track

• Associate Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus (2025-Present)
• PREPARED Project, Project Manager, UCLan Cyprus (2022-2025)

‘Pro-active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework’, Horizon Europe WIDERA

• Special Teaching Staff 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

• Cyprus Academic Dialogue (CAD)
  • Co-International Relations Secretary (2026-Present) 
• Open Council of Europe Academic Networks (OCEAN), Invited Member (2025-Present)
• International Law Association (ILA)
  • International ILA Committee on ‘Human Rights in Time of Emergency’ (2017-2024)
  • Cypriot Branch – Executive Committee Member (2016-2018)
• European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  • Mentor in mentorship scheme (2023-2025)
• 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 (2025-2026)

• International Human Rights and Criminal Law (Module Leader)
• Public and Private International Law (Lead for Public IL)
• Research Methods (Module Leader)

Previous Teaching (2018-2025)

• 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  

N. Kornioti, Law’s Politics: The Cyprus Troubles, 1960-1968 (Palgrave Macmillan 2025) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93369-1

BOOK CHAPTERS

N. 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 (Brill, Forthcoming)

N. Kornioti, ‘Law’s Memory Between Theory and Practice’ in Piotr Uhma (ed), Memory Law: and the Politics of History (September 2025) https://semper.istore.pl/pl/p/Memory-Laws-and-the-Politics-of-History.-Edited-by-Piotr-Uhma/23076707

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

N. Kornioti, A. Marcou, K. Kalaitzaki, ‘The Rule of Law as a Unifying Principle of Research Governance’ (CRoLEV Working Paper Series, 3/2025) https://crolev.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CRoLEv-Working-Paper-The-Rule-of-Law-as-a-Unifying-Principle-of-Research-Governance-final.pdf

J. 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

N. 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

N. 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

N. 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

N. 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

N. 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

PROJECT REPORTS, CONTRIBUTIONS & POLICY PAPERS

D. Schroeder, Th. Pogge, N. Kornioti et al, ‘Ethics Brief: Achieving Equitable Research Partnerships by Facilitating Visas for Short-Term Research Mobility’ (PREPARED Project, 2025) https://prepared-project.eu/visas/

D. Schroeder et al, ‘The PREPARED Code: A Global Code of Conduct for Research During Pandemics’ (PREPARED Project, 2025) https://prepared-project.eu/prepared-code/ 

N. Kornioti, ‘Cyprus’ in R. Albert et al (eds), 2023 Global Review of Constitutional Law (ICONnect and Clough Center 2024)

N. 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

N. 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   

ONLINE BLOGS & MEDIA ARTICLES

N. Kornioti, ‘Human Rights in Policy: Beyond words and symbols’ (Policypress, 10 January 2026) https://policypress.cy/human-rights-in-policy-beyond-words-and-symbols/

N. Kornioti, ‘The Encyclopaedic Value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study’ in Symposium, Revisiting Customary IHL: The ICRC Study at 20 (Völkerrechtsblog, 22 September 2025) DOI: https://doi.org/10.17176/20250923-114140-0

D. Loizou, N. Kornioti, ‘Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights’ (Strasbourg Observers, 1 August 2025) https://strasbourgobservers.com/2025/08/01/armed-conflict-and-international-humanitarian-law-in-the-jurisprudence-of-the-european-court-of-human-rights/

Ν. Kornioti, ‘The Judiciary and the resolution of the Cyprus Question’

(original in Greek, translated in Turkish)

Ν. Κορνιώτη, ‘Η Δικαστική Εξουσία και η επίλυση του Κυπριακού’ (Η Καθημερινή Κύπρου, 14 Απριλίου 2025) https://www.kathimerini.com.cy/gr/apopseis/prosopikotites-stin-k/1-i-dikastiki-exoysia-kai-i-epilysi-toy-kypriakoy

N. Kornioti, Yargı ve Kıbrıs Sorununun Çözümü Kaynak (Yeniduzen, 11 April 2025) https://www.yeniduzen.com/yargi-ve-kibris-sorununun-cozumu-23557yy.htm

N. 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/

Selective Conferences and Seminar Presentations 

N. Kornioti, Law in Cyprus Day: Climate Justice in the EU and Europe, EU House, Nicosia, Cyprus, 4 of November 2025 (Invited Speaker/Discussant)

N. Kornioti, ‘The encyclopaedic value of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study in history-oriented legal research’, Young Researchers Workshop – Customary IHL: Revisiting the ICRC’s Study at 20’, Institute for International Peace and Security Law (Universität zu Köln) & Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (Ruhr-Universität Bochum),18-19 September 2025

N. 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)

N. Kornioti, ‘Democracy and COVID-19’, “The impact of COVID-19 crisis on diverse democratic perspectives through gender perspective”, Faculty of Organisation Studies, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, 30 January 2024 (Online) (Guest Lecturer)

N. 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

E. Karayianni, N. Kornioti, ‘Home Away from Home: The British Cypriot Diaspora and the Breakage of Co-existence, International Conference, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1 December 2023

N. 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

N. 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

N. Kornioti, ‘Social Mediation as Conflict Resolution Tool in Deeply Divided Societies’, International Conference, European Association of Social Psychology, Nicosia, Cyprus, 4 November 2022 (Speaker, Co-author).

N. Kornioti, ‘Law’s Memory: Method, Theory and Practice’, International Symposium, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland, 19 September 2022 (Symposium Participant).

N. 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

N. Kornioti, ‘Law or Diplomacy? Priorities before the United Nations Security Council in the mid-1960s’, International Conference, ESIL Interest on the History of International Law, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Online), 30 March 2022 (Speaker).

Selective Research Funding/ Grant Capture

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 (Travel and Participation Grant)

September 2022 – August 2025, Project Manager at Pro-active Pandemic Crisis Ethics and Integrity Framework (PREPARED). Funded by: Horizon-Widera-2021, European Commission

March 2022 – February 2025, Workshop Facilitator/ Researcher at Centre for the Rule of Law and European Values (CRoLEV). Funded by: Erasmus + (2021-27), Jean Monnet Actions (2022-2025) European Commission

April – September 2022, National Expert at Preventing Racism and Discrimination – Enabling the Effective Implementation of the EU Anti-Racist Legal Framework (PRESERVERE). Funded by: CERV-2021-EQUAL, European Commission

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 (Travel and Participation Grant)

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 (Full participation grant, Research Scholarship)

February – July 2022, Researcher/Reviewer at The Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Social Sustainability & Societal Transitions in the United Kingdom and Europe: a rapid review. Funded by: Centre for Sustainable Transitions, UK

September 2021 – March 2022, Assistant Coordinator / Trainer/ Researcher at Identity, Culture and Social Mediation for Cyprus. Funded by: British High Commission, Nicosia

March 2021, Doctoral Forum on International Law ‘Practising Reflexivity in International Law’, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (Travel and Participation Grant; Event held online due to COVID-19)

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  (Full participation grant, Research Scholarship)

Supervision of Projects/PhDs

Nadia has supervised multiple projects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the areas of Public International Law, Human Rights, Migration and Asylum Law. She has also acted as internal evaluator for the progression of PhD students.

Consultancy and CPD Training

International Law Association, Committee Member – ‘International Committee on Human Rights in Time of Emergency’ (November 2017- June 2024)

Center for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET), Human Rights Expert – Workshop Facilitator on human rights for civil society (August 2023)

European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), Country Expert for Cyprus – Drafting National Report for ‘Study on Cyber Violence against Women’ (July 2021)

International Law Association – Cypriot Branch, Executive Board Member – Public Relations Manager (March 2016 – December 2018)

World Bank, Local Expert for Cyprus – Contributing to the Annual ‘Women, Business and the Law Report’ (2015-2020)

Scholarships/Awards

European Citizen’s Prize 2020 – Team member of ‘Social Mediation in Practice’ Project – Project of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods (ICLAIM) https://social-mediation.org/

Other Scholarly and Outreach Activities

1. Updated Cyprus Peace Process Design: Introducing Deliberative Democracy to Cyprus (C-UP), Member of Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Board (2026-2028) Cyprus Peace and Dialogue Centre (CPDC) & Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods (ICLAIM) https://cpdc-official.com/c-up

• Children Human Rights Defenders (Παιδιά Προασπιστές Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων), Legal expert, Project with the Commissioner for Children Rights of the Republic of Cyprus (2025-2026) https://www.childcom.org.cy/ccr/ccr.nsf/All/92C762026E54A41DC2258CB4002C130C?OpenDocument

• EMBRACE; Rights for Reconciliation, Member of Research Consortium (2023-2025) Cyprus Peace and Dialogue Centre (CPDC) & Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods (ICLAIM) https://www.cypdc.org/embrace

• CRoLEV, Workshop Facilitator (ICLAIM, 2022-2025)