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. She specializes in human rights protection in Europe, forced migration, refugee law, and European migration law. Her doctoral research focuses on legal accountability and effective legal protection of individuals against human rights violations in the area of asylum and immigration attributed to the EU agency Frontex (European Border and Coast Guard Agency).
She holds an editorial board position at the Refugee Law Initiative Working Paper Series (University of London), and is an External Affiliate to Statewatch (Frontex Observatory). Further, she is a member of the steering committee of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR).
Her work experience is shared among Vienna, Athens, and Leiden. She 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. She has had an earlier carrier as a journalist, covering stories mainly on education and civil and social rights, and has voluntarily worked for the Greek NGO AITIMA.
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).