Bio
Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow based at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway. She is currently working on her two-year research project entitled ‘AI Technologies in Maritime Border Management: The Panopticon of Migration’, supported by the generous funding received from the National University of Ireland (NUI) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. The project explores emerging human rights and ethical challenges posed by the use of technologies at borders in the context of migration by sea in the Mediterranean region. She also teaches courses in Human Rights Law at the University of Galway and supervises Master thesis projects on the broader field of human rights.
Dr Papachristodoulou holds a PhD in Law from University College Dublin (awarded with no corrections), a Master of Laws in Maritime Law from University College London and an LLB from University of Southampton. She was also called to the Cyprus Bar in 2016 (currently non-practising) and engages in strategic human rights litigation. Her principal research interests include the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties, border technologies, maritime migration as well as the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of AI technologies.
List of Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2022
‘The Recognition of a Right to be Rescued at Sea in International Law’ (2022) Leiden Journal of International Law, 1-20.
2021
‘Migrants at Sea Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Perfect Pretext for Endorsing à la carte Respect for Human Rights’ (Intersentia, 2021) European Yearbook on Human Rights, 259-284.
2020
‘Mediterranean Maritime Migration: The Legal Framework of Saving Lives at Sea’ (2020) 20 UCD Law Review, 87-112.
Other Publications
2023
‘The Crotone Migrant Shipwreck: A Cat-and-Mouse Blame Game and the Role of Technologies at External Borders’ (2023) peer-reviewed blog, EJIL: Talk!
2022
‘The Ban-Opticon Of Migration: Technologies at Maritime Borders and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction’ (2022) peer-reviewed blog, Border Criminologies.
2019
‘The Principle of Saving Lives at Sea: Just A Fool’s Hope’ (2019) peer-reviewed blog, International Law Blog.