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Summary

Ermioni is a Senior Lecturer in law and Director of Research for Brunel Law School .

She is currently teaching EU, migration and refugee law.

Her research focuses on (EU) criminal, migration, and asylum law, as well as human rights.

Ermioni was granted the Athena Swan Research Award 2022-2023 to conduct her individual research project on externalising trends of asylum law.  Together with Dr. Nayyeri, they published evidence that the government's asylum policy was unlauful. 

Ermioni also participated in ITFLOWS, a three-year long research project funded by European Commission's Horizon 2020, as a member of the BUL team assessing human rights challenges posed by technological tools predicting migration. 

Moreober, she is the author of 'The European Arrest Warrant in a context of distrust: Is the Court taking rights seriously?'. European Law Journal, pp. 218 - 233. ISSN: 1351-5993

She is also the author of 'Fundamental Rights and Mutual Trust in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: A Role for Proportionality?' published with Hart Publishing in 2020 and of several other publications.

Her article, 'Mutual Trust and Rights in EU Criminal and Asylum Law: Three Phases of Evolution and the Unchartered Territory beyond Blind Trust', was awarded the 2017 Common Market Law Review Prize for young academics.

Ermioni conducted her doctoral research at King's College London (2012-2017) with a scholarship from the Centre of European Law.

Qualifications

Fellow in Higher Education Academy, BEEC Brunel University London Oct. 2018 - July 2019

Ph.D. in Law, King’s College London, The Dickson Poon School of Law      Oct. 2012 – July 2017

Fully funded by the Centre of European Law Scholarship.

LL.M. (European Law, achieved Distinction)University of Surrey Oct. 2010 – Sept. 2011

Erasmus Exchange Study, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France Oct. 2008 – Feb. 2009

LL.B. (52 modules), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece Oct. 2005 – Jul. 2010

Newest selected publications

Xanthopoulou, E. (2024) 'Mapping EU Externalisation Devices through a Critical Eye'. European Journal of Migration and Law, 26 (1). pp. 108 - 135. ISSN: 1388-364X Open Access Link

Journal article

Xanthaki, A., Tschalaer, M. and Xanthopoulou, E. (2023) 'Migration Flows Prediction Tools and Asylum Policy Commitments in Alignment with Human Rights'. Place of publication: ITFLOWS. Available at: https://www.itflows.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ITFLOWS-Policy-Brief-5-D8.1.pdf.Open Access Link

Report

Xanthopoulou, E. (2023) 'The European Arrest Warrant in a context of distrust: Is the Court taking rights seriously?'. European Law Journal, 28 (4-6). pp. 218 - 233. ISSN: 1351-5993 Open Access Link

Journal article

Xanthopoulou, E. and Konstadinides, T. (2020) 'International Fight against Impunity and EU Counter-Terrorism Law: The Case of Foreign Terrorist Fighters', in Marin, L. and Montaldo, S. (eds.) The Fight Against Impunity in EU law. London : Hart. pp. 279 - 298. ISBN 10: 1-5099-2690-9. ISBN 13: 978-1-5099-2687-9.

Book chapter

Xanthopoulou, E. (2020) 'Fundamental Rights and Mutual Trust in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: A Role for Proportionality?'. London: Hart Publishing. ISSN 13: 9781509922253

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