Theodora Valkanou

Theodora Valkanou

Postdoc

Theodora Valkanou is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law currently working on the project Of Islands and Ice: Climate Change and the Protection of Indigenous Communities under International Law in Remote Island Territories (led by Miriam Cullen).

Theodora received her PhD titled ‘Grounding the Law. An International Law Study on Food Sovereignty’ from the University of Copenhagen in 2023. During her PhD studies, she was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School.

Theodora's research interests broadly encompass public international law, particularly international economic law, international human rights law and critical legal theory. She is especially interested in Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), and law and political economy.

Prior to joining the University of Copenhagen, Theodora worked as a Research Associate to James Crawford AC, Judge of the International Court of Justice, and in private legal practice in London. Previously, she has worked as a trainee at the European Commission (DG Trade) where she provided legal research during the negotiations of the European Union's free trade agreements. Theodora has also worked as a researcher at Aarhus University, Leiden University and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

Theodora has studied law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LLB) and Leiden University (LLM in Public International Law).

She is  admitted to practice law in Greece (Thessaloniki bar).

 

 

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