Email: m.gkliati@law.leidenuniv.nl
Website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/mariana-gkliati#tab-1
Bio:
Mariana Gkliati is a PhD researcher and lecturer at Leiden University. Her research in the area of asylum and immigration focuses on legal accountability and effective legal protection of individuals against human rights violations attributed to the EU agency Frontex. She lectures in masters and bachelors programmes on European Asylum Law and Migration Law and Policy in Europe.
Her work experience includes positions in Vienna, Athens and Leiden. Mariana has previously worked at the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in the area of asylum, migration and borders, and as a legal case reporter and commentator for Oxford Reports on International Law. Previously she had a career as a journalist, mainly covering stories on education and civil and social rights, and has undertaken voluntary work for the Greek NGO AITIMA, which provides legal and social aid to asylum seekers and refugees.
Publications/recent projects:
- Article: The EU-Turkey Deal and the Safe Third Country Concept before the Greek Asylum Appeals Committees, Movements (forthcoming).
- Book Review: Frontex and Non-Refoulement: The International Responsibility of the EU, by Roberta Mungianu. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)' (2017) 54 Common Market Law Review, Issue 6, pp. 1895–1897.
- Blog: Greek Gold disrupting the internal market: A case of illegal state aid, environmental destruction, and tax evasion, Leiden Law Blog, 19 June 2017.
- Blog: A Co-operative Way Out of Exploitation: Reflections on the Manolada Strawberries Case, Leiden Law Blog, 20 April 2017 (co-author: Morshed Mannan).