Markella Io Papadouli
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Specialist areas of work and services:
Description:
Europe Litigation Coordinator, The AIRE Centre Solicitor, England and Wales Lawyer, Athens Bar Association Lecturer, London South Bank University
Experience, Background and Services:
Markella has been associated with The AIRE Centre since 2012 and she returned in 2013.
Markella is a UK Registered, Greek qualified, European lawyer and AIRE Centre’s Europe Litigation Coordinator. In this capacity she coordinates the AIRE Centre strategic litigation team, specialising on taking asylum, and trafficking cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU. She leads the AIRE Centre’s asylum, law of the sea, and trafficking work, providing free legal advice and representation to victims of trafficking, the delivery of training to relevant stakeholders and the representation of the AIRE Centre at conferences and meetings worldwide on both issues of interest. She is also a non Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking.
Markella represents the AIRE Centre in the Frontex NGO Consultative Forum, the EASO Consultative Forum and the EU Civil Society Platform Meeting.
Markella is a Lecturer at London South Bank University for the Msc in Refuge Studies on European Asylum Law and Policy and International Refugee Law since 2013, while she regularly lectures on her areas of expertise in numerous Universities internationally.
Markella studied Law at the University of Athens and holds an LLM degree in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Warwick on International Relations and Human Rights.She further holds a Diploma in Grants Management and has completed the Odysseus Network Summer School in European Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum.
Markella was the National Expert on Greece for the European Database on Asylum Law in 2013 and has also worked for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the International Rescue Committee and UNHCR Greece.
Markella speaks fluent Greek, English, French and Spanish as well as basic German.
- Child law
- Immigration
- International humanitarian law
- Human rights
Description:
Europe Litigation Coordinator, The AIRE Centre Solicitor, England and Wales Lawyer, Athens Bar Association Lecturer, London South Bank University
Experience, Background and Services:
Markella has been associated with The AIRE Centre since 2012 and she returned in 2013.
Markella is a UK Registered, Greek qualified, European lawyer and AIRE Centre’s Europe Litigation Coordinator. In this capacity she coordinates the AIRE Centre strategic litigation team, specialising on taking asylum, and trafficking cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU. She leads the AIRE Centre’s asylum, law of the sea, and trafficking work, providing free legal advice and representation to victims of trafficking, the delivery of training to relevant stakeholders and the representation of the AIRE Centre at conferences and meetings worldwide on both issues of interest. She is also a non Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking.
Markella represents the AIRE Centre in the Frontex NGO Consultative Forum, the EASO Consultative Forum and the EU Civil Society Platform Meeting.
Markella is a Lecturer at London South Bank University for the Msc in Refuge Studies on European Asylum Law and Policy and International Refugee Law since 2013, while she regularly lectures on her areas of expertise in numerous Universities internationally.
Markella studied Law at the University of Athens and holds an LLM degree in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Warwick on International Relations and Human Rights.She further holds a Diploma in Grants Management and has completed the Odysseus Network Summer School in European Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum.
Markella was the National Expert on Greece for the European Database on Asylum Law in 2013 and has also worked for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, the International Rescue Committee and UNHCR Greece.
Markella speaks fluent Greek, English, French and Spanish as well as basic German.
