Alexandra Karaiskou
Biography
Alexandra is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute (EUI, Italy) and a visiting researcher at LSTS. Her PhD project examines the fundamental rights implications of EU large-scale IT systems used for security and migration purposes from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on the right to non-discrimination (as a stand-alone right and at its intersection with the right to data protection). At VUB, she collaborates with the DATAUNION research team led by Prof. Rocco Bellanova which explores the role of digital technologies in the framework of the above systems’ interoperability in shaping EU security practices, institutional governance, and fundamental rights. Her research interests include the interactions between science, technology, society, and law in areas of public governance.
She was previously a visiting scholar at Queen Mary University of London where she taught courses on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Migration and Human Rights’ as a Guest Lecturer. She is also Guest Editor of the Computer Law and Security Review (CLSR) for the Special Issue entitled “Towards Autonomous Borders? Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges in Contemporary Border and Asylum Governance” and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies (EJLS). During 2021-2022, she served as Coordinator of the EUI Migration Working Group (under the aegis of the EUI Migration Policy Centre (MPC), a researcher-led group aiming at fostering exchange on the latest, cutting-edge migration research.
Alexandra holds a LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws from the EUI, a LL.M. in Human Rights Litigation from the University of Grenoble Alpes (France), and a LL.B. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). She is the recipient of the French National Grant for doctoral studies for her PhD project, and of the (merit-based) IDEX Grenoble Scholarship for postgraduate studies awarded to the best LL.M. candidate. She is also a practising lawyer in Greece (admitted to the Piraeus Bar Association). Before starting her PhD, she provided counselling and legal representation to asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors, detained migrants and refugees in Athens and Chios island, and litigated before the national civil, criminal, & administrative courts.
Location
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium