ANNOUNCEMENTS

GUEST LECTURE BY DR VALENTINA AZAROVA - TUESDAY 6 DECEMBER 2022, 17.00-19.00 PM

We are delighted to announce that on Tuesday 6 December 2022, 17.00-19.00 pm, Dr Valentina Azarova will give a guest lecture on “The law of occupation in the 21st century” for the course “International Humanitarian Law” in the context of the 2022/23 LL.M. in International & European Law. The lecture will take place at 47 Akadimias Str., 3rd floor, AthensPIL Room.

Students and researchers are encouraged to attend! Join us.

Valentina Azarova is an international legal academic and practitioner working at the intersection of power, law and violence. She has over 15 years of experience advising social and liberation movements, NGOs, international and inter-governmental organisations, governments and other actors primarily in the Middle East and Central Asia. Her practice follows a trauma-informed approach and centres movement lawyering, restorative and transformative justice. She has co-created and taught international law and legal practice programmes and courses since 2009, including in Palestine, Lebanon and Turkey, and currently guest teaches at various universities primarily in Europe and is a research affiliate at the Manchester International Law Centre, University of Manchester. Valentina has published widely on the Israel/Palestine context, critical occupation and territoriality in international law,  response-ability to structural violence and relational injustice. Her current research and praxis seeks to expose and resist irresponsibility practices and infrastructures, and to further legal mobilisation in solidarity with social movements, particularly those that promote decolonial approaches to peace, antimilitarism and non-violence. Valentina is co-founder and member of the Emergent Justice Collective (emergentjusticecollective.org) and of the de:border | migration justice collective (debordercollective.org). She holds a PhD from NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Human Rights.